My Teaching

As a teacher, I aim to cultivate enthusiasm about philosophical questions and to get all students involved in the dialogue of the class.  To these ends, I use a variety of methods, including asking students to connect course content to public debates in the news, to craft blog posts about ideas that interest them, to compete in classroom games (using programs like Kahoot), and to participate in traditional classroom discussion.

My general approach to teaching is greatly influenced by James Lang's Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, a book that I heartily recommend.  It is available here.

Current Courses

The Passionate Mind (Graduate Seminar)

Philosophy of Love & Sex

Future Courses

On sabbatical 2025-2026

Previous Graduate Seminars

Consciousness and Intentionality (Winter 2023)

Emotional Experience and Ethical Knowledge (Fall 2020)

Previous Undergraduate Courses

Metaethics (Upper-division)

Philosophy of the Emotions (Upper-division)

Fundamentals of Ethics

Philosophy of Love & Sex

Life, Death, and Poverty

Business Ethics

Ethics and the Health Sciences

Introduction to Ethics

Morality and Justice (online)