Below are a list of courses/modules that I have either taught or am due to teach during the next academic year 2026-2027.
Below are a list of courses/modules that I have either taught or am due to teach during the next academic year 2026-2027.
Component 1: The Good Life. TBC
Component 2: Modern Empiricism. TBC
Epistemology. TBC
Component 1: Philosophy of Religion. TBC
Component 1: David Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. In this component of the module we will be reading two chapters from Hume's Enquiry, 'Of Liberty and Necessity' and 'Of Miracles'. We will be relating themes and questions in these chapters to issues in contemporary philosophy, e.g., free will, causation, religious faith, and the problem of evil.
Philosophy of Religion: The Islamic Perspective. TBC
Component 2 - Medieval Philosophy. TBC
This course offers an in-depth exploration into the rich and diverse tradition of classical Islamic philosophy (falsafa). Students will explore the philosophical ideas of major Islamic thinkers, such as al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), al-Ghazali, and Ibn Rushd (Averroes). The exploration is structured thematically, beginning in the first half of the course with an overview of the Islamic tradition and the main philosophical issues that were discussed by the classical Islamic philosophers (falāsifa).
This course examines pre-philosophical and philosophical thought in Mesopotamian, Indian, Chinese and Greek civilizations until medieval period in interrogating basic and perennial questions of philosophy such as the meaning of life, knowledge, existence, and value.
This course offers an introduction to important ethical theories from Ancient, Islamic, and modern Western philosophy, to the contemporary period.
This course examines central concepts and themes related to religion. It is connects to other philosophical disciplines such as metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology.
This course focuses on the classical or formative period of Islamic Philosophy up until the 11th century (CE). It considers the major metaphysical, epistemological and ethical problems that animated philosophers living in the Islamic world.