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Philosophy Department at The University of California, Berkeley

Courses Taught

• PHIL 161 - Aristotle
  40 students: A survey course on Aristotle
• PHIL 187 - Special Topics in the History of Philosophy
  12 students: Aristotle's Science of Nature.

Philosophy Department at The Ohio State University

Courses Taught

• PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy
  80 students, general introduction to some metaphysics, epistemology and ethics
• PHIL 130 - Introduction to Ethics
  42 students, history, theory and contemporary issues
• PHIL H111 - The Self in Antiquity
  21 honors student: important ideas an significant developments in the conception of the self in antiquity (Plato, Plotinus and Augustine)
• PHIL H112 - The Self in Modern Times
  25 honors students: important ideas and theories of the self arising form Locke
• PHIL 301 - Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
  80 students: a survey course on ancient philosophy

Department of Philosophy at The University of Pittsburgh

Courses Taught

• PHIL 200 - History of Ancient Philosophy
  120 students: a survey course on ancient philosophy
• PHIL 1060 - Hellenistic Philosophy
  22 honors students: Stoic physics and its significance for the Stoic system
• PHIL 1040 - Aristotle
  30 students: Introduction to Aristotle
• PHIL 2041 - Aristotle' s Science of Nature
  12 graduate students - a seminar on Aristotle, Physics 1 and 2 and the Parts of Animals 1

Department of Philosophy at The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Courses Taught

• PHIL 2115 - Ancient Philosophy
  80 students: a survey course on ancient philosophy
• PHIL 6141 - Aristotle on the soul and life
  8 students: a graduate seminar on Aristotle's De Anima
• PHIL 1204 - Knowledge & Reality
  76 students: a lower division course on knowledge and reality
• PHIL 6141 - Ancient Stoicism
  12 students: a graduate seminar on Ancient Stoicism
• PHIL 1204 - God and Reason in the Middle Ages
  40 students: an upper division survey of medioeval philosophy

Department of Philosophy at Concordia University

Courses Taught

• PHIL 260/2 A - Before and after Socrates
  75 students: a survey of Greek philosophy from the beginning to Plato.
• PHIL 265/2 AA - Introduction to Metaphysics
  65 students: an introduction to the study of philosophy with an emphasis on the so-called problem of the external world.
• PHIL 260/4 B - Before and after Socrates
  44 students: a survey of Greek philosophy from the beginning to Plato.
• PHIL 261/4 A - Aristotle and after
  63 students: an introduction to Aristotle and the main lines of thought in Hellenistic Philosophy.

Courses Taught in the Fall Semester 2006

• PHIL 260/2 A - Before and after Socrates
  
• PHIL 465/2 AA - Honours Seminar in Metaphysics

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