INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD
Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense (Summer 2022, Fall 2024, Summer 2025)
An analysis of ethical issues that arise in peace, war, and defense, e.g., the legitimacy of states, just war theory, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction.
Ideology, Capitalism, and Critique (Spring 2024)
A philosophical analysis of how (oftentimes implicit) ideological commitments shape our culture and our social reality.
Moral and Philosophical Perspectives on Gender and Society (Fall 2023)
A survey of feminist perspectives on topics such as the meaning of oppression, sexism and racism, sex roles and stereotypes, ideals of female beauty, women in the workplace, pornography, rape.
Making Sense of Ourselves (Spring 2023)
An examination of some of the most influential attempts to understand human beings, their lives, and their moral and political values.
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Values, Virtues and Happiness (for Geoff Sayre-McCord)
A survey exploration of different philosophical perspectives about right and wrong, personal character, justice, moral reasoning, and moral conflicts.
Introduction to Critical Thinking (for Ram Neta)
A course on how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people and how to construct arguments. Topics include argument reconstruction, informal logic, fallacies, introductory formal logic, probabilistic reasoning.