My teaching aims to cultivate a sense of intense wonder at philosophical questions, and to turn that response into disciplined and careful inquiry.
As Lead Instructor
The Ethics and Politics of Accountability
Philosophy in the Islamic World (medieval - contemporary)
As Sections Leader
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in which we discussed basic theories of reasoning about how to act, and then applied them to everyday moral and policy problems.
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in which we discussed why acts are right, outcomes good, arrangements just; what (if anything) make a moral explanation true; and how we know such explanations are true.
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in which we discussed the philosophy of cognitive science and machine learning, before turning to the ethics of emerging technology.
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in which we discussed the history and philosophy of race, with a special emphasis on race-based wrongs.
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in which we studied canonical texts in metaphysics and moral philosophy.
Teaching Outreach
I am committed to Dewey’s ideal of philosophy as a civic practice. So I teach in different forms outside the university - from public symposiums and coffee shop seminars, to after school Ethics Bowl coching.
Here, I teach broadly, and have previously taught the philosophy of work, moral problems in American life, theories of social justice, and the epistemology of science.