Teaching

Training

My pedagogical skills have profited immensely from the seminars of UM's Center for Research in Teaching and Learning.

Experience

As Graduate Student Instructor (GSI)

• PHIL 383: Knowledge & Reality (for Dave Baker) (Fall 2025)

• PPE 300: Intro to Political Economy (for Elizabeth Anderson) (Winter 2025)

• PHIL 289: Descartes to Kant (for Janum Sethi) (Winter 2024)

• PHIL 303: Intro to Symbolic Logic (for Gordon Belot) (Fall 2023)

• PHIL 101: Intro to Philosophy (for Jim Joyce) (Winter 2023)

• PHIL 110: Intro to Ethics (for Anna Edmonds) (Fall 2022)

As mentor

• For REYES (2025)

• For COMPASS (2022-2023)

• For Michigan High School Ethics Bowl (2022-2024)

Previous teaching experience

At Universidad de los Andes, I was a teaching assistant for a survey course on the Presocratics, a first course on quantum field theory (from canonical quantization to QED), an introduction to Plato's ethics (focusing on the Republic), a gen-ed survey course on the history of cosmology, and a course for which I assessed the teaching of the advanced physics students that helped in the Clinic for Problem-Solving of the Physics Department.

Resources (under construction!)

Teaching and learning

• There is ample evidence of the benefits of active learning. Some resources I like and use frequently are this guide from Michigan's Center of Research in Teaching and Learning and this list of activities maintained by Melissa Jacquart.

• I try to incorporate inclusive pedagogies into my teaching (and my research). Here are some resources on trauma-informed pedagogy, and here are some resources on anti-racist pedagogies.

  • One way to promote an inclusive learning space is by diversifying syllabi. Some resources for philosophy can be found here, here, and here. Some ideas for philosophy of science by Anya Plutynski can be found here.

Philosophy-specific guides

• Olivia Bailey, "But how do I participate? A sampling of ways to contribute to a philosophical conversation"

• David Concepción's 2004 "Reading Philosophy with Background Knowledge and Metacognition"

• Bryan W. Roberts, "7 Steps to a Better Philosophy Paper"

• David Morrow and Anthony Weston's companion to their "Workbook for Arguments"

• Kyle Stanford, "The Seven Deadly Sins of Argumentative Writing"

• Michael Cholbi, "How Philosophers Address Objections to their Positions"

• UNC-Chapel Hill's Writing Center tips & tools for writing philosophy

Philosophy of physics-specific links

I'm keeping a list of resources here.

For UM students

Professor Maegan Fairchild keeps an updated list here. Puentes, a Latinx graduate students organization, compiled another list here.