Teaching


Current Teaching

I am on sabbatical during the 24-25 AY. I will mostly be writing, but will also be designing two new courses, one on the philosophy of visual art and the other on the functions of art. 
Past Teaching

In Spring of 2024, I taught a graduate seminar on Love, Respect, and Alienation

In the Fall of 2023, I taught an introduction to philosophical aesthetics (PHIL 1380) and the graduate program's ProSem on philosophical style.

In the Spring of 2023, I taught a survey of metaethics (PHIL 4720).

In the Fall of 2022, I taught the graduate program's ProSem (PHIL 6000) on philosophical style.

In the Spring of 2021, I taught a graduate seminar (PHIL 572) on moral epistemology.

In the Fall of 2020, I taught an introduction to epistemology (PHIL 231) and co-taught metaethics (PHIL 472) with Daniel Wodak.

In the Fall of 2019, I co-taught the graduate program's ProSem (PHIL 600) with Daniel Wodak.

In the Spring of 2020 I taught an introduction to aesthetics (PHIL 080) and a majors seminar (PHIL 372) on Love, Beauty, and the Meaning of Life.

In the Fall of 2018 I taught a graduate seminar on the metaphysics and epistemology of sensory content (PHIL 532).

In the Spring of 2019 I taught an introduction to aesthetics (PHIL 080) and a survey of metaethics (PHIL 472).

I was on leave during AY 17-18.

In the Fall of 2016, I taught an introduction to moral philosophy (PHIL 2) and the graduate program's ProSem (PHIL 600). 

In the Spring of 2017, I taught an upper-level survey of metaethics (PHIL 472) and a graduate seminar on the the epistemology of the normative.

In Spring 2016 I taught a graduate seminar on the nature of rationality. The syllabus is here. In Fall 2015 I ta​ught PHIL 2 and the ProSeminar. 

In the Spring of 2015, I will be teaching an upper level survey of metaethics and a graduate seminar. The topic for the graduate seminar is metanormative rationalism. You can find a draft of the metaethics syllabus here and a draft of the syllabus for the seminar here. In the Fall of 2014, I taught PHIL 2, which is an introduction to moral philosophy. You can find the syllabus here.

During the 2013-2014 academic year I taught at Franklin & Marshall College.

In the Fall of 2013, I taught PHI 375/SPM 375, which is an upper level seminar in Moral Psychology. The topic was Understanding People. A snap shot version of the syllabus is here. For full information, check the course page here.

In Spring 2014 I taught PHI 370/SPM 370. The course was entitled Fractured Psychologies. It was about philosophically interesting ways in which parts of our psychologies can be in tension with other parts of our psychologies. For more information, check the course page here.


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