Teaching

• Fall 2022, PHIL 341: Ethical Theory

  • • • • • • A survey of the central traditions of Western moral philosophy. A theme of the course is the plausibility and prospect of standard theories in light of critiques which dispute the value and appeal of morality.

• Winter 2022, PHIL 328E: Existentialism

  • • • • • • A historical survey of existentialism from Kierkegaard to Fanon aimed at upper-level undergraduates.

• Spring 2021, PHIL 438I: Love, Sex, and Ethical Life

  • • • • • • An upper-level undergraduate course on the ethics of love and sex. A theme of this course is the philosophical significance of recent literary fiction concerning love and sex.

• Summer 2020, PHIL 140: Contemporary Moral Issues

  • • • • • • An introductory course to widely debated moral issues such as charity, abortion, sexual ethics, eating animals, and responsibility to future generations.

• Spring 2020, PHIL 328E: Existentialism

  • • • • • • A historical survey of existentialism from Kierkegaard to Fanon aimed at upper-level undergraduates.

            • (Revised syllabus to reflect the transition from in-person to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic).

• Courses I'm prepared to teach include:

  • • • • • • Introduction to Philosophy

            • Aesthetics

            • Philosophy of the Emotions

            • Ancient Philosophy

            • Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy