In the winter semester of 2023–24, I am teaching a course on freedom, autonomy, and the justification of state interference as convener and seminar leader at the University of Vienna. The course is primarily intended for students in the Philosophy and Economics master’s program, but it is also open to other master’s students in the two disciplines. The course covers theoretical issues with respect to conceptualizing freedom and autonomy, as well other key concepts, like paternalism, interference, and legitimacy. It also goes into practical issues, including nudging, affirmative action, drug legalization, and organ conscription. The course syllabus is available here.
Before I moved to Vienna, I taught five different courses in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University (ANU).
I was the seminar leader and co-convener for a seminar-based course on methods in moral and political philosophy for fourth-year students in the PPE program. The course covered the topics of conceptual analysis, thought experiments and intuition pumps, reflective equilibrium, ideal and non-ideal theory, constructivism, political realism, public justification, and fact-(in)sensitive principles. You can find the course syllabus here.
I also worked as lecturer and teaching assistant in four lecture-based undergraduate courses. One is an introductory course in the ANU’s bachelor programme in politics, philosophy, and economics (PPE). The course integrates all of the three disciplines, and focuses on game-theoretic analysis of collective action problems, value theory, public choice, and social choice theory.
The second undergraduate course I taught at the ANU was on modern Western history of political thought, which focused on a range of key thinkers from Machiavelli to Nietzsche.
The third undergraduate course was on contemporary political philosophy. More specifically, it introduces the students to John Rawls’s theory of justice and its critics, and looks at practical issues, such as free speech, gender (in)equality, global justice, and immigration, in the light of these theories.
Finally, I taught a second-year methodology course on public choice, or the rational-choice approach to political science. The course focused on Arrow’s theorem and strategic voting, spatial modelling of electoral competition, coalitions and committees, and game-theoretic analysis of cooperation and collective action problems.