Holden M. Rasmussen

An introduction to the major traditions in moral philosophy, covering utilitarianism, virtue ethics, deontology, and rights-based cosmopolitanism. Theoretical frameworks are tested against contemporary applications including government surveillance, social responses to homelessness, and migration. As module leader, I designed the handbook and assessments, managed the Virtual Learning Environment, and delivered both lectures and seminars.

The Philosophy Project is a student-led module taught according to a bespoke method in which the academic's role is to facilitate independent research and learning while providing skills-based workshop instruction in academic practice. As module leader for Stage 1 students, I combined the roles of research supervisor and personal tutor, taking responsibility for both students' scholarly development and their pastoral care.

The Philosophy Project is a student-led module taught according to a bespoke method in which the academic's role is to facilitate independent research and learning while providing skills-based workshop instruction in academic practice. As module leader for Stage 2 students, I combined the roles of research supervisor and personal tutor, taking responsibility for both students' scholarly development and their pastoral care.

I designed the module handbook, co-designed the assessment marking schemes with students, and managed the Virtual Learning Environment. I delivered skills-based workshops on presenting academic research in philosophy, designing visual materials, and producing video content. The module culminated in a student-organised research conference at which students presented their Stage 3 research projects.

This module introduces students to the main themes in existentialist philosophy, exploring ideas of subjectivity, anxiety, freedom, and authenticity. I assessed student essays.

This module covers the early modern debates between rationalists and empiricists, engaging with figures including John Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, and Bishop Berkeley. I facilitated seminars and assessed student essays.

This module focuses on key developments in the arts, with particular reference to the avant-garde, and in philosophy across the twentieth century. It examines the political potential of art, central ideas in twentieth-century continental philosophy, and the relation and overlap between artistic and philosophical practice. I facilitated seminars and assessed student essays.

This module introduces students to the most important modern and contemporary philosophical conceptions of subjectivity and political agency in Italian thought and culture, alongside the major twentieth and twenty-first century critiques of them. I facilitated seminars and assessed student essays.

An inquiry into questions of identity and selfhood across the phenomenological and materialist traditions, with texts by Descartes, Edith Stein, Edmund Husserl, Aristotle, J. D. Bernal, and Mel Y. Chen. I designed the handbook and assessments, managed the Virtual Learning Environment, and facilitated twice-weekly Socratic seminars.

An introduction to the major traditions in moral philosophy, covering utilitarianism, virtue ethics, deontology, and rights-based cosmopolitanism. Theoretical frameworks are tested against contemporary applications in equality, diversity, and inclusion. I designed the handbook and assessments, managed the Virtual Learning Environment, and facilitated twice-weekly Socratic seminars.