Teaching
Courses
Here are some of the courses I have taught recently at Carnegie Mellon:Logic and Mechanized Reasoning (15-321)
A course for third-year students in computer science, co-taught with Marijn Heule, based on our textbook with the same name. Course page: html.Interactive Theorem Proving (21-321)
A course for third-year students in mathematics and computer science, based on Mathematics in Lean.
The Nature of Reason (80-150)
A survey of philosophical views on the nature of reason, including deductive logic, inductive logic, the philosophy of mind, and computation.Logic and Mathematical Inquiry (80-211)
An introduction to logic and mathematical proof.Logic and Computation (80-310/610)
The syntax and semantics of first-order logic, completeness, compactness, and other topics.
Lecture notes (version: January 2002, 120 pages): pdf.Computability and Incompleteness (80-311/611)
Formal models of computation, unsolvability, and Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
Lecture notes (version: January 2007, 128 pages): pdf.
David Gray's Wall of Logic: jpg.
Notes on the incompleteness theorems, and the halting problem: pdf.Proof Theory (80-411/711)
An introduction to proof theory.
Here are some notes on classical and constructive logic: pdf.
Seminars
These are some of the seminars I have taught.- In the fall of 2015, I taught a seminar on mathematical language.
- In the spring of 2012, I taught the second semester of our core graduate seminar in philosophy, with the following syllabus: pdf.
- In the fall of 2012, I taught a seminar on mathematical understanding and cognition.
- In the fall of 2011, I taught a freshman seminar on the history and philosophy of mathematics.
- In the fall of 2010, I taught a seminar on the history and philosophy of mathematics with Ken Manders.
- In the spring of 2007, I taught a seminar on practical decision procedures with Ed Clarke.
- In the fall of 2005, I taught a seminar on the history and philosophy of mathematics with Ken Manders.
- In the summer of 2005, I taught a short course on proof theory with Henry Towsner at Notre Dame.
- In the fall of 2002, I taught a seminar on the history and philosophy of mathematics with Ken Manders.