Teaching
What I've Taught
Introduction to Philosophy
Primary Instructor: Fall 2024
This course utilizes a customized small-group discussion format to provide a general overview of the topics and methods used in the discipline of philosophy. By the end of this course, students will be prepared to leverage their new knowledge and skills to enhance any organizational meeting, advocate for their interests, and make a difference both within and outside of the university.
Introduction to Logic: Summer Intensive
Primary Instructor: Summer 2023, Summer 2024
This innovative synchronous online course uses a customized textbook to help students learn the basics of propositional and first-order logic, gain exposure to additional logical systems, and ultimately pursue an original application of these tools in a project suited to their interests.
Knowledge and Society
Primary Instructor: Spring 2024
This intermediate level course addresses the nuances of trust, power, prejudice, ignorance, and how all of these interact with social institutions like science and democracy. Our structured in-class discussions help students build the mental flexibility needed for understanding and explaining others’ views, forming and articulating their own opinions, and navigating frameworks for producing knowledge in a complex social world.
Critical Reasoning
Primary Instructor: Fall 2023
This skills-based course provides tools for analyzing and evaluating reasoning patterns. Through participating in the course, students will become adept at recognizing and circumventing flawed reasoning, communicating their own ideas more effectively, and responding constructively to the contributions of others. Students are then encouraged to use these skills to address real-world problems and create meaningful dialogue surrounding controversial topics.
What I'd Love to Teach
Philosophy of Time
This course features a split focus between the implications of time travel and the challenges of time management. Includes discussions in metaphysics about the nature of time itself, approaches to temporal logic, analyses of time travel in fiction, and practical questions about how we can best approach managing our own time in the chaotic pace of the contemporary digital world.
This course is still in development. Check back later for more information.
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