Teaching


Some of the courses I have taught:


  • An introductory course on Political Philosophy. Topics covered:

    • the state of nature

    • political obligation

    • democracy and its alternatives

    • individual liberty

    • property and distributive justice


  • A course on Bioethics examining ethics issues in health and medicine. Topics:

    • Voluntary Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and Non-Voluntary Euthanasia

    • Abortion

    • Informed Consent and Medical Paternalism

    • Rights and Justice in Health Care

    • Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources

    • Organ Procurement

    • Surrogate Pregnancy

    • Stem Cells

    • Gene therapy and Genetic Information

    • Cloning

    • Animal Experimentation and Xenotransplantation


  • Western Political Thought. An upper-level undergraduate course on the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Bentham, Mill, and Marx.


  • Non-Western Political Thought: An undergraduate course covering amongst others Confucius, Al-Farabi, Ibn Khaldun, Lenin, Gandhi, and Frantz Fanon.


  • An upper-level undergrad course on Contemporary Political Philosophy examining:

    • Utilitarianism

    • Rawls's 'Justice as Fairness'

    • Egalitarianism

    • Libertarianism

    • Communitarianism

    • Feminism

    • Marxism

    • Desert

    • Moral Limits of the Market


  • Global Justice: a graduate course covering:

    • Singer's Humanitarianism

    • Global Contractualism

    • Egalitarianism

    • Sovereignty

    • Nationalism

    • Realism

    • Immigration

    • Future Generations

    • Climate Change

    • Humanitarian Intervention

    • World Government

    • The Covid Pandemic


  • An introductory course on Ethical Reasoning and Moral Philosophy:

    • Cultural relativism

    • Subjectivism

    • Morality and Religion

    • Morality and Science

    • Egoism

    • Social Contract theory

    • Utilitarianism

    • Kantian Ethics

    • Feminism and the ethics of care

    • Virtue ethics


  • An upper-level course on Normative Ethics examining:

    • Consequentialism

    • Deontology

    • Virtue ethics

    • Contractarianism

    • Particularism and Pluralism


  • Introduction to Political Science. A first-year course covering political ideologies, the state, regimes, constitutions, legislative, executive, and judicial branches, policies, political parties, interest groups, and social movements.


  • A course on Democratic Theory, which examined different types of democracy, justifications for democracy, and critiques of it.