ROBIN MCKENNA
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I have taught at every level of undergraduate and postgraduate study. I regularly teach undergraduate classes on the history of philosophy, epistemology, and philodophical problems. I co-teach a postgraduate class on topics related to my research and another class on philosophy and social change. I have lectured on a wide range of topics including ethics, history of philosophy (early modern, British empiricism, Mill, de Beauvoir, Arendt), meta-ethics, philosophy of language and philosophy of science. While I like teaching topics that are related to my research, I often find that teaching other topics, even ones that are very distant from my own research, is more rewarding. (My students don't seem to mind either).

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). My teaching practice is informed by pedagogical research and best practices. I have also conducted my own pedagogical research as part of my postgraduate teaching qualification that led to my fellowship of the HEA.

Lecturing:
(*denotes that I designed the module)

​University of Liverpool:

Postgraduate:
"Science, Society and Public Policy" (module co-ordinator) (*)
"Philosophy and Social Change" (module co-ordinator) (*)
"Mind, Metaphysics and Language" (module co-ordinator)

Undergraduate:
"Philosophical Insights" (module co-ordinator) (*)
"Knowledge and Epistemic Justice" (module co-ordinator)
"Philosophical Problem-Solving" (module-co-ordinator)
"Reading and Writing Theoretical Philosophy"
"Philosophy of Race"

University of Vienna:

Undergraduate:
"Free Will and Moral Responsibility" (module co-ordinator) (*)
"Knowledge in Society" (module co-ordinator) (*)
"Social Epistemology" (module co-ordinator) (*)
"Moral Anti-Realism" (module co-ordinator) (*)

University of Edinburgh

Postgraduate:
​"Theories of Meaning"

Undergraduate:
"Theories of Meaning"


Seminar Leadership:

I have taught seminars on topics including ancient philosophy, early modern philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of art, philosophy of race, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy.

Supervision:

I am supervising two PhD students: Paul Taylor and Ariana Razavi.

I have supervised Masters theses on vice epistemology, science denialism and philosophy of art. I have supervised undergraduate dissertations on several topics including conspiracy theories, pornography, speech-act theory, social construction, epistemology of ignorance, social media, philosophy of disability, consciousness and epistemic injustice.




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