Teaching

• Summer 2025 PHIL 100: Introduction to Philosophy

  • • • • • •  An introductory course with a focus on academic writing. Topics include the nature and practice of philosophy, the existence of God, the nature of the mind and the self, and the meaning of life and death.

• Spring 2025 PHIL 140: Contemporary Moral Issues

  • • • • • • An introductory course (lecture, 120 student, 6 sections, facilitated by two teaching assistants) to widely debated moral issues such as charity, consent and sexual ethics, abortion, anti-natalism, euthanasia, punishment and prisons, and climate ethics.

• Fall 2024 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.

• Spring 2024, PHIL 309D: Philosophy of Negative Emotions

  • • • • • • An upper-level course on the philosophical nature of anger, shame, fear, anxiety, and grief. A theme of the course is the good of these so-called negative emotions and their ethical, political, and aesthetic significance. 

• 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:

  • • • • • • Aesthetics

            • Philosophy of Religion

            • Ancient Philosophy

            • Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy

            • A first-year seminar emphasizing critical skills in reading and writing