Courses Taught
VASSAR COLLEGE
Minds, Rules, and Mischief
Advanced seminar on how minds follow, invent, and sometimes break rules, and what these capacities require across human, animal, and artificial cognition. The course examines the relationship between associative and rule-based thinking, from with emotion and social coordination to social categories, game-theoretic models, and normative behavior in animals. Finally, it considers reasoning and normativity in AI, including chain-of-thought processes and the possibility of affective or spontaneously normative systems. Spring 2027.
Philosophy of AI: Minds and Values
Intermediate-level course asking what AIs are and how we should study them alongside questions about their limitations and harms; draws on the mind sciences, computer science, and philosophy. Fall 2026.
Philosophy and Science of Affectivity
Advanced seminar investigating what it is to feel good/bad, what affective states allow a mind to do, how they states might have arisen, and how we should study them. Draws on work across philosophy and the mind sciences. Spring 2025.
Born this Way: Essentialism Across Disciplines (co-designed and co-taught)
Intermediate-level course on essentialist thought, especially about social categories such as race, gender, LGBTQ identities, mental illness, and disability; draws on Philosophy, Biology, and Psychology. Spring 2027.
Philosophy of Science
Intermediate-level course in contemporary philosophy of science with a focus on feminist philosophy of science, social and political philosophy of science, and cognitive science. Fall 2021; Fall 2022; Fall 2023; Fall 2024; Fall 2025.
Philosophy of Mind
Intermediate-level course in philosophy of mind, drawing on classic and contemporary work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences. Spring 2023, Fall 2026.
Philosophy of Creative Thought
Advanced, experimental course asking what creative thought is and how are minds able to do it. Draws on art and literature alongside scholarly work across several disciplines. Spring 2025.
Epistemology
Intermediate-level course on contemporary problems in epistemology, including issues in social epistemology and feminist epistemology. Spring 2022; Spring 2024.
Early Modern Philosophy
Introductory-level course on the Early Modern period in European philosophy; includes selections from women and thinkers outside Europe and investigates the close relationships between the scientific and political theories of the period. Spring 2022, 2 sections; Spring 2023.
Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Introductory-level course focusing on natural deduction in propositional and predicate logic. Fall 2023; Spring 2024; Fall 2024; Spring 2025; Fall 2025; Fall 2026.
Self and Meaning
Introductory course organized around the theme of the powers and limits of narrative thought; investigates central questions in philosophy of mind, epistemology, social philosophy, and ethics through short stories, literary nonfiction, and contemporary philosophical texts. Fall 2021; Fall 2022, 2 sections.
HUNTER COLLEGE
Mind, Language, and Cognition
Intermediate-level course on debates about mind, language, and cognitive science in both Philosophy and Psychology from the early 20th-century through today. Spring 2018; Fall 2019; Spring 2020.
Knowledge and Reality
Intermediate-level course on classic and contemporary texts in metaphysics and epistemology. Fall 2020.
Introduction to Ethics
Introductory course on classic and contemporary ethical theory. Spring 2021 (online).
Introduction to Philosophy
Introductory course investigating major questions in philosophy. Fall 2016; Spring 2017; Summer 2020 (online); Fall 2020 (online).
Introduction to Philosophy
(teaching assistant)
Fall 2015; Spring 2016; Fall 2017
BROOKLYN COLLEGE
Introduction to Philosophy
Introductory course investigating major questions in philosophy. Fall 2014; Spring 2015; Fall 2016; Spring 2016.
Business Ethics
Introductory applied ethics course for Business and Accounting majors. Fall 2013 (2 sections); Spring 2014 (2 sections); Fall 2014.
Teaching Philosophy
I teach with the conviction that philosophy helps my students make sense of their daily experiences and equips them to critically engage with and transform the world around them. To this end, I cultivate an open classroom with active, student-directed learning to foster critical thinking skills. My teaching is adapted to the varied learning styles of a broadly diverse student population so that students can approach the material in different ways according to their interests and learning styles. Lively and creative discussions among students are part of the regular fabric of my teaching and are the central joys of my teaching work.
I am also prepared to teach Bioethics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Art, and a comparative course on the question of emotion’s epistemic value which spans several philosophical traditions.
Syllabi for these courses, as well as for the courses listed above, are available upon request.