I enjoy teaching a wide variety of courses, especially courses that focus on topics in the history of philosophy and applied ethics. In 2017 I was honored to receive an Early Achievement in Teaching Award from the College of Arts & Sciences at Iowa State.
At Johns Hopkins I have designed and taught the following courses. Please send me an email if you'd like to talk about any of them or see the syllabi:
PHIL 205: Introduction to the History of Early Modern Philosophy
PHIL 245: American Indian Philosophy (a seminar for first-year students)
PHIL 301: Locke
PHIL 477: The Philosophies of Locke and Leibniz (with Hao Dong)
PHIL 684: Philosophical Issues in Newton and Newtonianism
At Lehigh University I designed and taught the following courses. Please send me an e-mail if you'd like to talk about any of them or see the syllabi:
American Indian Philosophy (a seminar for first-year students)
Humans and Other Animals (a seminar for first-year students)
Ethics
Bioethics
Philosophy of Religion
Medieval Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
Descartes and Newton
At UNC and Iowa State I designed and taught the following courses. Please send me an e-mail if you'd like to talk about any of them or see the syllabi:
History of Modern Philosophy
History of Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy of Religion
Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Mathematical Logic
Philosophy, Happiness, and Ethics
Moral Theory and Practice
Bioethics
Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense