Truth, lies, and fiction
undergraduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2025
A course on deceptive speech and issues about fiction such as fictional truth, emotions towards fiction, imaginative resistance, and fictional reference.
Teaching
Philosophy of language
undergraduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2024
This course explores the following questions: Can artificial intelligences perform speech acts such as assertion and lying? Do the outputs produced by artificial text generators have meanings? If artificial intelligences lack speaker intention, in what sense do human and artificial intelligences communicate with each other?
Introduction to analytic philosophy
undergraduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2024
This course explores four questions: What exists? Do we know that the external world exists? What are the reasons for and against eating meat? Do we know that we are not living in a computer stimulation?
Writing philosophy papers
undergraduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2022
A writing intensive course with weekly reading and writing assignments.
Introduction to philosophy
undergraduate, Brown University, 2013
An introduction to philosophy course I taught when I was a PhD student.
Introduction to logic
undergraduate, Texas A&M University, 2009
An introductory logic course covering sentential logic and predicate logic.