Teaching

Crude illustration of Plato's allegory of the cave
2019. Cave Drawing. Index finger on iPad.

My teaching emphasizes collaborative learning through group deliberation, as well as the need to make philosophy accessible to students from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and learning needs. I do this by crafting more inclusive syllabi and consciously seeking to provide alternative ways by which students can demonstrate their proficiency of the course material.

I have designed and taught these courses as primary instructor:

  • Digital Privacy and Ethics: An application of ethical and political perspectives to the issue of privacy, especially applied to recent and emerging digital technologies (seminar)
  • Happiness in Ancient Greek Philosophy: A survey of Greek ethics for non-majors, with a focus on eudaimonism (lecture)
  • Greek Philosophy: A survey of Greek metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics, political philosophy for majors (lecture)
  • Love in Moral Philosophy: A look at the debate about the problem partiality poses for ethical theories, for students who have taken the introductory ethics class (seminar)

I have taught these courses as Civil, Liberal & Global Education Fellow:

  • Why College? Your Education and the Good Life: First-year liberal arts requirement on the aim of education emphasizing diverse perspectives, ranging from Seneca to DuBois.
  • Health Care, Ethics, and Justice: An introduction to the ethical and political question of health care allocation at the institutional and bedside levels.
  • Rules of War: An introduction to just war theory and the legal rules that govern the resort to and conduct of armed conflict
  • Emotion: An introductory survey of emotions and their place in human life through the perspectives of philosophy and psychology

Please contact me if you would like to see a syllabus for, teaching resources from, or more information about each course.