World Religions introduces the principal features of the world's major religions through reference to key events, characters, beliefs and related phenomena. A range of thinkers are discussed such as Philo of Alexandria, Origen of Caesarea Maritima, Adi Shankara, Muhammad Rumi, Dogen Zenji [Kigen], Julian of Norwich, Sayyid Qutb, Mohandas Gandhi and Vine Deloria Jr.

Religion, Science and Popular Beliefs evaluates how these topics are depicted in the history of ideas as well as in contemporary film, streamed media and video games as well as in new virtual reality technologies being employed to evoke religious experiences. It helps students to critically reflects upon the historical, philosophical and ethical implications of these interactions.

Ethics of Emerging Technologies introduces how a mathematical, algorithmic, or design principle raises new ethical questions about an emerging technology. The course enhances student capacities to evaluate technological dangers as well as direct their positive potentialities. It is also offered at the postgraduate level here.

Philosophy of Religion examines a number of issues that came to the fore in the ancient, medieval, early modern, enlightenment and later periods such as proofs for the existence of God, various conceptions of transcendence, the nature of the self, the concept of religion, and the relation of religious and scientific forms of inquiry. Thinkers to be considered may include Augustine, Avicenna, Anselm of Canterbury, Moses Maimonides, Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Buber, Simone Weil and Jacques Derrida.

Philosophy of Relationships investigates diverse philosophial, religious and ethical responses that aim to improve human relationships. It develops comparative methodologies in the academic study of philosophy, religion and ethics in order to help students evaluate a range of viewpoints on the topic. Thinkers discussed may include Plato, Aurelius Augustine, Muhammad al-Ghazali, Immanuel Kant, Nagarjuna, Arthur Schopenhauer, William James, W. E. B. Du Bois, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt and Christine Korsgaard.

Democracy and Diversity examines the complex relationship between democracy and various forms of cultural and religious diversity. It analyses key concepts developed by political philosophers who impacted democratic theory with particular attention to social inclusion and enfranchisement. Thinkers discussed may include Thomas Hobbes, Benedict Spinoza, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile Durkheim, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, Juergen Habermas and Kwame Appiah.

Critical Thinkers examines the development of some of the most influential thinkers of the contemporary period. Students will develop their own critical thinking skills by evaluating the works of figures such as John Dewey, Hannah Arendt, Paul Ricoeur, Iris Murdoch, Richard Rorty, Martha Nussbaum, Hubert Dreyfus and Andy Clark.

Ethics of Emerging Technologies introduces how a mathematical, algorithmic, or design principle raises new ethical questions about an emerging technology. The course enhances student capacities to evaluate technological dangers as well as direct their positive potentialities. It is also offered at the postgraduate level here.

I supervise research students on various topics related to the courses above and my own authored books and articles. In order to evaluate my potential suitability to supervise a research project I require three things: 1) a copy of your transcripts from previous undergraduate and graduate studies in philosophy of religion, history of ideas or a cognate discipline; 2) a curriculum vitae with publications and relevant experience; and, 3) a research thesis proposal which should outline your project’s background, aims, methodology and outcomes stating its contribution to new knowledge, thesis chapter completion timeline, and bibliography. Further guidelines on research proposals are available here. Details on the university's formal application process are available here.