Public Philosophy
Cogtweeto: "I tweet therefore I am"
Together with Jen Foster (USC), I co-created the Twitter Philosophy Conference Series "Cogtweeto" Since January 2021, we have organized and hosted a series of Cogtweeto conferences, averaging 50-75 attendees each.
For more information on the series, visit our website, twitter, read Daily Nous' write-up on it here, or listen to our podcast appearance on Embrace the Void here.
Previous Cogtweeto Workshops:
April 13, 2024 CogSweeto: the Philosophy of Love, Beauty, Gender, & Sex
August 5 - 6, 2023 Teaching Philosophy as ______ (CogTeacho)
April 23, 2022 Optimism and the Good Life (A New Hope)
October 31 - November 1, 2021 Philosophy of Horror & Science Fiction (Cogweirdo)
August 21, 2021 Philosophical 'Hot Takes' (This but Unironically, part 2)
July 17, 2021 Philosophical 'Hot Takes' (This but Unironically, part 1)
March 20, 2021 What the Ancients have to Tell Us about Today (Ok, boomer)
January 21, 2021 Underrepresented Voices in Philosophy (I don't know who needs to hear this, but...)
Public Philosophy Writings
Blog Posts
I have written a number of blog posts for the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO)'s blog, Wondering Aloud.
In Incorporating ChatGPT into Philosophy Classes, I discuss different responses to this technology alongside my experience using it middle school introductory philosophy courses.
I also wrote about Virtue Dialogue Theory as the pedagogical and metaphilosophical intersection between Philosophy for Children (P4C), dialogic teaching, and teaching for intellectual virtues on PLATO's blog here.
My most recent PLATO blog post, "Dialogue Across Time: Philosophy through Paradoxes" reflects on my experiences teaching an online weekly philosophy & paradoxes class to middle school students. I share my initial hesitation about this course--my worries that introducing philosophy through paradoxes would lead students to think that philosophy is trivial, useless, without answers, and irrelevant to their lives. However, my experience with teaching the class has laid many of the concerns to rest!
Twitter Threads
On the ethics of Proctorio software (cited in Grimm, Grossman, & Cormack (2021) "Artificial Intelligence as Evidence," Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 19:1, 9-106)
An interpretation & explanation of Aristotle's De Anima III.5
Podcast Appearances
In addition to the appearance on Embrace the Void podcast episode about Cogtweeto, I was also on CuriosophyNow's podcast, where we chatted a bit about virtue ethics, stoicism and anxiety, pre-college philosophy, and more. That podcast can be found here.
Pre-College Philosophy
High School Philosophy
Iowa Lyceum (2021 - Present)
I have been involved with the Iowa Lyceum since Spring 2020. In 2021 and 2022 I served as director of the Iowa Lyceum. The Iowa Lyceum is a free, online, week-long pre-college philosophy summer program organized by philosophy graduate students at the University of Iowa. For inquiries about the Iowa Lyceum, send an email to philosophy-lyceum[at]uiowa[dot]edu.
Middle School Philosophy
AstraNova (Middle School Philosophy, 2022 - Present)
As of fall 2022, I am the philosophy instructor at AstraNova, an experimental online middle school originally started as part of SpaceX.
Introduction to Philosophy, 3x
Logic & Reasoning, 2x
Paradoxes & Philosophical Puzzles, 3x
Art & Philosophy, 1x
Science Fiction & Philosophy, 1x
Time & Reality, 1x
Choose Your Own Philosophical Adventure, 1x
Minds, Consciousness, & AI, 1x
Simulations, Dreams, & Reality, 1x
Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) Middle School Series
I had the opportunity to teach the winter 2022 and spring 2023 PLATO online middle school philosophy series, which provided free online philosophy classes to middle school students around the United States. The winter 2022 session was on environmental ethics and the spring 2023 session was philosophy of science.