Quyen Pham

Fys 66F – The Individual & the Social

(Harvard, Spring 2025 & 2026)

First-year seminar-style introduction to social philosophy.

Phil 165 – The Structure of the Social World

(Harvard, Fall 2024 & 2025)

Undergraduate seminar-style introduction to social metaphysics.

Phil 165S/S178 – Gender, Race, & Social Reality

(Harvard, Summer 2025 & Spring 2026)

Undergraduate seminar-style introduction to the philosophy of gender and race.

Phil 164 – Metaphysics

(Harvard, Fall 2024 & 2025)

Upper-division introduction to metaphysics.

Phil 122A & B – Reasoning & Argument

(USC, Spring 2020)

Lower-division introduction to critical thinking and logic.

Phil 97 – Philosophy Through Dialogue

(Harvard, Spring 2025)

Sophomore tutorial on philosophical skills through dialogues from across the history of philosophy.

Phil 315 – History of Western Philosophy: Ancient Period

(USC, Spring 2024)

Upper-division survey of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic period to the Hellenistic period.

Core 103 – The Process of Change in Science

(USC, Fall 2017, with Edwin McCann)

Honors-level interdisciplinary course on the conflict between science and religion and the nature of scientific inquiry.

Phil 236 – Issues in Space & Time

(USC, Spring 2023, with Andrew Bacon)

Lower-division introduction to the physics and metaphysics of space, time, and spacetime.

Phil 104 – Ancient Foundations of Western Thought

(USC, Fall 2022, with John Dreher)

Lower-division survey of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic period to the Hellenistic period.

Phil 168 – The Meaning of Life

(USC, Spring 2018 & Fall 2019, with Stephen Finlay)

Lower-division survey of philosophical and religious views on the meaning of life and the good life.

Phil 255 – Existentialism in Philosophy, Literature, & Film

(USC, Fall 2023, with Edwin McCann)

Lower-division survey of the existentialist movement in philosophy and its influence on 19th- and 20th-century literature and film.

Sex, Gender, & Sexuality

Upper-division introduction to the history of feminism and the philosophy of gender.

Race, Ethnicity, & Nationality

Upper-division introduction to the philosophy of race.

Life, Death, & Meaning

First-year seminar-style introduction to the philosophy of life and death.

Language, Speech, & Truth

Upper-division introduction to the philosophy of language, from semantics and pragmatics to ethics and politics.