Graduate Coursework
Fall 2010 - present
ABD
UCSD Forgiveness Research Group (funded by UCSD Interdisciplinary Collaboratories grant 2010-11 and 2011-12)
Spring 2010
PHIL 295: Research Topics
Winter 2010
PHIL 295: Research Topics
PHIL 122: Topics in Logic
Fall 2009
PHIL 295: Research Topics
LTLA 100: Introduction to Latin Literature
Spring 2009
PHIL 285: Responsibility and the Reactive Attitudes
LTLA 3: Beginning Latin
Winter 2009
PHIL 201A: Hume
LTLA 2: Beginning Latin
Fall 2008
PHIL 290: Independent Study on Fatalism
LTLA 1: Beginning Latin
Spring 2008
PHIL 285: Epicureanism Ancient and Modern
PHIL 260: Partial Responsibility
Winter 2008
PHIL 290: Independent Study on Fatalism
PHIL 236: Philosophy of Mind
Fall 2007
PHIL 285: Social Justice
PHIL 106: Hegel
Spring 2007
PHIL 285: Groups Minds (part 2)
PHIL 285: Moral Psychology
Winter 2007
PHIL 285: Group Minds (part 1)
PHIL 285: Nietzsche on Morality
Fall 2006
PHIL 204A: Philosophy of Science
PHIL 200: Proseminar
Teaching Experience
Summer 2011
PHIL 137: Philosophy of Action (instructor)
Winter and Spring 2010
MCWP 50: World Poverty and the Ethics of Assistance (a course co-designed with Theron Pummer)
Fall 2009
MCWP 50: Ethics and Animal Welfare (a course of my own design)
Summer 2009
PHIL 27: Ethics and Society
Winter and Spring 2009
MCWP 50: Animals and Action (a course of my own design)
Fall 2008
PHIL 145: Philosophy of Science
MCWP 40: Critical Writing
Spring and Summer 2008
MCWP 50: Animals and Us (a course of my own design)
Winter 2008
MCWP 50: The Graphic Novel
Fall 2007
MCWP 40: Critical Writing
Spring 2007
PHIL 10: Logic
Fall 2006 and Winter 2007
PHIL 27: Ethics and Society
Reading Groups
Spring 2010
Latin Translation Group (Cicero's De Officiis)
Feminism Reading Group (Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight)
Winter 2010
Latin Translation Group (Cicero's De Officiis)
Special Feminism Reading Group (Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, trans. Borde & Molovany-Chevallier)
Fall 2010
Latin Translation Group (Bacon's Wisdom of the Ancients)
Feminism Reading Group (Susan Moller Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family)
Special Feminism Reading Group (Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, trans. Borde & Molovany-Chevallier)
Ethics Reading Group (recent work on beneficence and obligations to the distant needy)
Spring 2010
Latin Translation Group (Hobbes' Leviathan)
Reading Group for the 2010 UCSD Graduate Philosophy Symposium
Feminism Reading Group (feminism and prostitution)
Winter 2010
Latin Translation Group (Hobbes' Leviathan)
Reading Group for the 2010 UCSD Graduate Philosophy Symposium
Fall 2009
Latin Translation Group (Hobbes' Leviathan)
Ethics Reading Group (Jeff McMahan's The Ethics of Killing)
Feminism Reading Group (Martha Nussbaum's Women and Human Development)
Spring 2009
Latin Translation Group (Hobbes' Leviathan)
Feminism Reading Group (feminism and pornography)
Winter 2009
Latin Translation Group (Hobbes' Leviathan)
Ethics Reading Group (Derk Pereboom's Living Without Free Will)
Fall 2008
Pragmatism Reading Group (pragmatist accounts of free will and determinism)
Spring 2007
Primate Cognition Reading Group (Tomasello and Call's Primate Cognition)
Winter 2007
Primate Cognition Reading Group (Tomasello and Call's Primate Cognition)
Pragmatism Reading Group (John Dewey's Experience and Nature)
Fall 2006
Pragmatism Reading Group (John Dewey's Experience and Nature)