As fun as research may be, I'm deeply committed to my students. Still, it's great when they can go hand in hand. I proposed and designed a Philosophy and Sports course for CU Boulder, a course which even now that I've left CU sees significant demand every semester.
In addition to cultivating important philosophical skills, I try to make philosophy come alive and feel relevant to students, especially given that most of those I've taught thus far are non-majors taking these courses to fulfill some university requirement. In addition to academic philosophy articles, my students read newspaper and investigative journal articles – and watch the occasional documentary – both to better connect the material from the course to the world they inhabit and because social, political, and ethical investigations about our non-ideal world require actually engaging with it.
Courses taught below, syllabi available upon request (UD: Upper-division):
Coastal Carolina University:
Ethical Theory (UD)
Crime and Justice (UD)
Bio-Medical Ethics (UD)
Ethics Bowl (UD)
Introduction to Ethics
The Ohio State University:
Moral Philosophy (UD)
Philosophical Problems in the Law (UD)
Introduction to Ethics
Political and Social Philosophy
Contemporary Social and Moral Problems in the U.S.
Engineering Ethics
Environmental Ethics
Philosophy of Sport
University of Colorado Boulder:
Ethics
Contemporary Social Problems
Reading, Writing, and Reasoning
Ethics and Information Technology
Philosophy and Law
Philosophy and Sports
Knowledge, Mind, and Reality