Robert Smithson, UNCW Philosophy
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Spring 2024 update: I have become very interested in the impact of large language models (e.g., chatGPT) on  pedagogy, both in philosophy and in the broader university. Adam Zweber and I have a forthcoming paper in Teaching Philosophy​ on this topic.

Past courses
The Virtues
​Introduction to Logic (11 sections)
Iris Murdoch
​Introduction to Philosophy (19 sections)
​Early Modern Philosophy (7 sections)
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Philosophy of Mind (3 sections)​
Philosophy of Science (3 sections)
Philosophy of Art (2 sections)

Introduction to Ethics (3 sections)
Knowledge and Democracy (2 sections)
Epistemology (2 sections)
Philosophy of Time and Space
Bioethics

Directed individual studies and theses
Advanced Logic and Metatheory
Contemporary Metaphysics
​Contemporary Metaethics
History of Analytic Philosophy

Philosophy of Language
Blackburn's Quasi-Realism
The Cosmological Argument
Most recent syllabi, unedited evals
Fall 2024 Syllabus
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​(Spring 2023 Syllabus) (Evaluations)
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(Fall 2022 Syllabus) 
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(Fall 2021 Syllabus) (Evaluations)
(Summer 2021 Syllabus) (Evaluations)
(Fall 2019 Syllabus) (Evaluations)
(Spring 2018 Syllabus) (Evaluations)
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(Spring 2017 Syllabus) (Evaluations)​
​(Summer 2016 Syllabus) (Evaluations)

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​Here is a teaching portfolio containing my teaching philosophy, quantitative course evaluations, and complete and unedited student comments.
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