Ginger Hoffman

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Teaching
Past

Courses I've taught (as a teaching assistant) in the past:

Minds and Machines (MIT)
Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (MIT)
Justice (MIT)
Bioethics (MIT)
Problems of Philosophy (MIT)
Introduction to Philosophy (Harvard University Summer School)
Madness and Medicine: Themes in the History of Psychiatry (Harvard University)
Stories Under the Skin: The Mind-Body Connection in Modern Medicine (Harvard University)
Psychobiology of Learning and Memory (Yale University)
Biological Communication (Wesleyan University)

Future

I hope to teach a broad range of courses in the future (in both philosophy and biology/neurobiology). Here are some examples of courses I would like to teach that are within (or close to) my areas of expertise:

Philosophy/Interdisciplinary courses:
Introduction to Biomedical Ethics
Neuroethics
Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychiatry
Prozac 101
The Philosophy of Neuroscience and the Neuroscience of Philosophy
Neuroscience and the Self
Neuroscience and Gender

Philosophy courses:
Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Ethics
Philosophy of Science
Feminist Theory
Metaethics
Happiness and the Good Life

Neuroscience and Biology courses:
Introductory Biology
Neurobiology
Psychopharmacology
Neurobiology of Depression