Carolina Flores

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Taught at Rutgers, Spring 2021 & Winter 2022. An asynchronous online class, with a bent toward questions that arise as we navigate the social world.

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Taught at Rutgers, Fall 2020. This is a core curriculum critical thinking online synchronous course. The class focused on giving students applicable tools to reason better in a social context.

I wrote a blog post for the Philosopher’s Cocoon on the final module for this class, on applied social epistemology. And you can download all the materials I used for this module here. Feel free to use them in your own classes!

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Taught at Rutgers, Spring 2019. This is an upper-level feminist philosophy course cross-listed with Women and Gender Studies. It focuses on sexist oppression in its many dimensions.

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Taught at Rutgers, Fall 2019. This was an upper-level course cross-listed with cognitive science. The class focused on human irrationality and social aspects of cognition.

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Taught at Rutgers, Summer 2021. This was a synchronous online survey on the psychology of concepts co-taught with Veronica Gomez Sanchez at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.

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A 10-week upper division epistemology course taught at UC Santa Cruz, Winter 2024. It focuses on recent social and political epistemology, with the goal of providing students with resources to detect and understand hostile features of our epistemic environments. It has the rare feature of including no readings single-authored by white men.

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This was an upper-level small discussion seminar on Spinoza’s Ethics, including the later books of the Ethics.

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Elise Woodard and I ran this informal seminar on political epistemology for graduate students and faculty on Zoom in Summer 2021.

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Taught at UC Santa Cruz, Fall 2023. A 10-week graduate seminar on bias, with a focus on the cognitive science of bias and brief forays into (1) the epistemology and ethics of bias, and (2) algorithmic bias. (With thanks to Elli Neufeld; see her excellent syllabus here).