MATTHEW SIMPSON
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I have teaching experience at the University of Cambridge first as a PhD student in 2013-2017, and since 2020 as a Junior Research Fellow, and at University College London as a teaching fellow in 2017-2020. I have taught undergraduates and postgraduates in various settings including one-to-one and large lectures, covering topics in formal and philosophical logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, metaethics, mind, and philosophical study skills. I have been nominated four times by students for teaching and pastoral awards at UCL and Cambridge.

UCL (2017- 2020)
  • Course lecturer and examiner for
    • 2nd year undergraduate: Knowledge; Truth, Facts, and Properties; Philosophy of Language
    • 3rd year undergraduate/MA/MPhil: Representation and Reality; Metaethics.
    • Master’s level: Research Preparation (MA), Practical Criticism (MPhilStud)
  • In 2019-2020, MA Tutor (MA course co-ordinator and tutor for MA students)
  • One-to-one supervision for MA and third-year UG dissertations; interim advisor to two PhD students.
  • In 2018 and 2019, revision and exam technique lectures for all philosophy undergraduates.

University of Cambridge (2013-2017, 2020 - present)
  • Lecture courses: The Nature of Logic (third-year UG), Metaphysics of Modality (second-year UG)
  • Undergraduate supervisions in metaphysics, philosophical and formal logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, across all years.
  • In 2015-16 and 2016-17: Discussion group leader and philosophy skills lectures, Philosophy and Public Affairs Module, MPhil Public Policy, Cambridge Department of Politics and International Studies. Module leader Dr Tom Dougherty; course leader Dr Finbarr Livesey
  • First-year formal logic class tutor and marker
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