Evan O'Donnell

I've taught Asian philosophy once, to forty students. I teach, in Chinese philosophy, Confucian, Mohist, Daoist and Legalist thought; in Indian philosophy, Hindu and Buddhist thought; and the contact of the two traditions in the Chinese Buddhism of the Tiantai school. I use the class to develop comparative philosophy skills, and focus on dialogue writing as a complement to other styles of philosophical argumentation.

I've taught Basic Logic once, to twenty students. The course takes philosophy majors from the basics to first-order logic in about a quarter, and incorporates sustained focus on building proof-writing skills.

I've taught Philosophy of Sex and Gender twice, to sections of forty students. While surveying both the history of feminist thought and contemporary philosophical work on gender, I take Philosophy of Sex and Gender as a lever for investigating broader questions of the conceptual ethics & engineering of social kinds.

I've taught Introduction to Philosophy four times, to sections of forty students. My Intro course focuses on the question 'what is truth?', using it as a lever to explore the history of philosophical thought, the intersection between epistemology/metaphysics and ethical/political thought, and give students the tools of conceptual analysis they need to do philosophy on their own.