Teaching
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 (syllabi available upon request):
Social and Political Philosophy
Contemporary Social and Moral Problems in the U.S.
Philosophical Problems in the Law
Philosophy of Sport
Engineering Ethics
Reading, Writing, and Reasoning
Knowledge, Mind, and Reality
Ethics and Information Technology
Philosophy and Law
Contemporary Social Problems