I earned a teaching certification from the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. I’ve taught courses at U-M and for various communities outside academia.

My teaching aims to cultivate a sense of wonder at philosophical questions, and to turn that response into careful, rigorous inquiry.

As a practicing metaethicist, I believe that inquiry into the normative depends on our views about the rest of philosophy. So my teaching interests are broad. They cover almost all normative areas of research (including political philosophy and the history of ethics). I can teach a range of topics in theoretical philosophy as well.

As Lead Instructor

The Ethics, Politics, and Law of Accountability

Philosophy in the Islamic World (medieval - contemporary)

As Sections Leader

in which we studied canonical texts in metaphysics, epistemology, and moral philosophy.
in which we discussed the philosophies of cognitive science and AI, before turning to the ethics of emerging technology.
in which we discussed the history and philosophy of race, with a special emphasis on race-based wrongs.
in which we discussed why acts are right, outcomes good, arrangements just; what (if anything) make a moral explanation true; and how we know that such explanations are true.
in which we discussed basic theories of practical reasoning and applied them to live ethical and political issues (e.g., philanthropy, reparations, euthanasia).

Teaching Outreach

I am committed to Dewey’s ideal of philosophy as a civic and public practice. So I’ve designed public symposiums, coffee shop seminars, communal forums, and after school courses for Ethics Bowl teams.

Here, I have previously taught the philosophy of work, moral problems in America, Aristotle on friendship, the metaphysics of explanation, and epistemology of science.