Teaching

I am fortunate to teach philosophy at Yale-NUS College, where cross-cultural philosophizing is the norm, and where I am free to explore a wide range of philosophical interests.

Yale-NUS College

Aristotle on Happiness: the Nicomachean Ethics, Fall 2023

Plato on Love and Death, Spring 2023

Aesthetics of Fear: Horror and the Philosophy of Art, Spring 2020, Spring 2023

Socrates on Trial, Spring 2019, 2020, 2021 (Historical Immersion)

Philosophy as a Way of Life, Spring 2018, 2021; Fall 2023 

https://www.academia.edu/44426765/Philosophy_as_a_Way_of_Life_Yale_NUS_College_Spring_2021_syllabus_

Philosophy and Political Thought I and II, Fall 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021; and Spring 2014-2019 

PPT I and II constituted the one-year sequence that all Yale-NUS students took in their first year of the Yale-NUS Common Curriculum. I presented lectures on Mengzi, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, the Bhagavad Gita, Zhu Xi, Lucrezia Marinella, and 20th-Century Chinese Political Thought (including Liang Qichao, Chen Duxiu, and "New Confucians"). I also led weekly discussion seminars on other figures, ranging from Mozi to Vasubandhu (Semester I), and Santideva to Hannah Arendt (Semester II).

Aristotle, Spring 2017

Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fall 2016, 2018

Ancient Greek Political Philosophy, Spring 2016

Love and Friendship, Fall 2015

Philosophy of Law, Spring 2015

Here is a recent interview with Malcolm Keating (Sutras & Stuff) on my experiences learning and teaching Indian philosophy:

https://anchor.fm/malcolm-keating/episodes/S3-E6-Matt-Walker-e1h643f

Here is an introductory mini-lecture on Mengzi that I recorded for Wireless Philosophy (a.k.a. Wi-Phi):

https://www.wi-phi.com/videos/mengzi-mencius-on-human-nature/

Previous courses

Rutgers University

Socrates and Plato (Philosophy 301), Spring 2012 

Philosophy of the Greeks (Philosophy 208), Spring 2012 

Seminar in Aristotle: The Ethics of Aristotle (Philosophy 521; grad seminar), Fall 2011

Independent Study: Ancient Chinese Ethics (Philosophy 493), Fall 2011

Ethics through History (Philosophy 341), Spring 2011

Philosophy of the Greeks (Philosophy 208), Spring 2011

Plato: Plato on Love and Friendship (Philosophy 410), Fall 2010

Fordham University 

Philosophical Ethics (Fall 2009; Spring 2010)

University of Miami (as Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Ethics of Virtue)

Aristotle on Happiness (grad seminar) (Spring 2009)

Independent Study: Ancient Skepticism (Spring 2009)

Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (Fall 2008)