Here is information about my past and present courses, together with some testimonials from past students. For my teaching portfolio see here.
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Lecturing:
University of Liverpool: "Knowledge and Epistemic Justice", 2018 (course organiser) University of Vienna: "Free Will and Moral Responsibility", 2018 (course organiser) "Knowledge in Society", 2017 (course organiser) "Social Epistemology", 2016 (course organiser) "Moral Anti-Realism", 2015 (course organiser) Inter-University Centre, University of Dubrovnik: Summer School on "Social Epistemology and Relativism", 2017 University of Edinburgh: "Theories of Meaning", 2012 (co-taught with Michael Ridge) Tutoring: University of Liverpool: "Knowledge and Epistemic Justice", 2018 (4 sections) "Reading and Writing Practical Philosophy", 2018 (2 sections) University of Edinburgh "Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment", 2012 (3 sections) Supervision: University of Vienna: Masters essay on testimony, 2017 Bachelor thesis on moral progress, 2015 Bachelor thesis on Stephen Darwall's The Second-Person Standpoint, 2015 |
"Professor McKenna was one of the best lecturers I've ever had. He prepared the materials for the course way ahead - at the beginning of the semester, we could already access all the texts we would read during the course as well as excellent summaries that he wrote to help us deal with the texts. The course was a seminar and it was remarkable how he managed to guide and moderate very interesting and productive discussions (although many of my colleagues' contributions were often not specifically on point or sometimes even counterproductive), steering the debate towards the points he had intended to emphasize in a seemingly very natural way. Additionally, he was very engaged in helping us prepare presentations. What I valued most was his guidance in writing essays (which I personally asked for) and his extensive and very useful feedback on what I wrote. Although the topic of the course is not among my principal study interests, Social Epistemology was the best course I took the last semester thanks to Professor McKenna's qualities."
“In light of my standards for this type of course, there is nothing about the seminar that could have been any better. It was overall a very well designed and conducted course.” "I was given very precise and extensive feedback on my written work, both on the contents and the writing style. This has been a highly valuable course so far as writing essays is concerned. The choice of course texts was also very purposeful, and the order in which we read them served to build relevant knowledge." "[Robin] provided feedback to every submitted contribution (weekly!). In other courses you hardly get any(!) feedback. Furthermore he provided the students with hints and thoughts to what else could be considered in further investigations of the topic, thus leading and motivating the students to discover new things on their own." |
