Lecturing news and general philosophy roundup

I received some good news a couple of weeks ago (which the facebookers among you will have seen already). Next spring I'll be standing in for a member of our academic faculty as the module leader for the department's Media Ethics module. This means that I'll be in charge of all the lectures, tutorials, marking, etc for that course. This is great news! I wasn't expecting to get experience of having that level of responsibility for a course whilst still a graduate student. Though it'll be hard work, I think it'll be good fun -- and my having been in charge of a module should be an asset to me on the job market in a few years.

Media Ethics is an 'elective' module, meaning that a good deal of its students are not doing degrees in philosophy. You can get an idea of what the course is about by looking at the reading list from this year's course.


Other happenings. I've been undertaking an obscene amount of 'philosophy-tourism' recently. I was in Dublin for a two-day workshop on relativism, and in Genoa, Italy for a three-day workshop on contextualism and relativism. Both of these workshops featured important figures in the field that I'm working on. Next week I'll be in St Andrews for the Arché Summer School, which should be an intense and incredibly valuable experience featuring a wide range of interesting philosophy from many interesting thinkers.