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Undergraduate courses taught since 1992

London School of Economics (1992-1995): Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (1st year undergraduate)

Oxford University (1995-96): Philosophy of Relativity Theory, Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (final year honours); tuition for Exeter, Pembroke, St Hilda, St. Hugh’s Colleges

St Andrews University (1996-97): Epistemology; Metaphysics, Social Context of Science (1st year); Philosophy of Science (2nd year); History of Modern Philosophy (2nd year); Wittgenstein and Logical Positivism (Honours)

Northwestern University (1997-98): Introduction to Epistemology

Bristol University (1998-2001): Metaphysics of Science (3rd year); Philosophical Issues in the Physical Sciences (3rd year – new course); Philosophical Foundations of Physics (3rd year – new course for Faculty of Science students); Philosophy of Science (2nd year); Introduction to Epistemology (1st year).

Complutense University of Madrid (2002-): Philosophy of Science (final year Philosophy Faculty); Philosophy of Natural Science (University wide course); Methodology of the Natural and Social Sciences (University wide course); Philosophy of Physics (Faculties of Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy).

Postgraduate courses taught since 1994:

London School of Economics (1994-1995): Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (MSc. in Philosophy and history of Science)

St Andrews University (1996-97): Research Seminar on Verificationism (with Crispin Wright and Helen Billinge)

Northwestern University (1997-98): Seminars in Arthur Fine’s course on realism

Bristol University (1998-2001): MA General Philosophy Seminar; MA Philosophical Writing and Research Seminar; MA Philosophy of Physics (new course)

University of Seville (2003-4): Experimental Realism

Complutense University of Madrid (2002-): Experimental Realism (2002-3); Theories of Scientific Representation (2003-4, and 2004-5); Causality (with Julian Reiss, 2005-6, and 2006-7); Scientific Methodology (2007-8); Philosophy of Physics (2008-9)

Graduate Supervision:

St Andrews University (1996-97): Andrew Aberdein: "Revising Logic".

Bristol University (1998-2002): Antti Karjalainen: "Topics in Contextualist Epistemology", Martin Poulter: "Value and Belief".

Complutense University of Madrid (2002-):

Iñaki San Pedro: "Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle and Quantum Correlations", cum laude, European Doctorate, February 2008.

Albert Solé: "Realismo e Interpretación en Mecánica Bohmiana" ("Realism and Interpretation in Bohmian Mechanics"), cum laude, extraordinary prize, October 2009.

Isabel Guerra: "Quantum Conditional Probability: Implications for Conceptual Change in Science", cum laude, European Doctorate, extraordinary prize, November 2009.

Fernanda Samaniego: "Explanatory Depth and Statistical Mechanical Interventionism", cum laude, European Doctorate, December 2011.