Teaching

Last updated 16 July 2025

Following recent pedagogical research, my teaching employs a skills-based, scaffolding approach. My students repeatedly practice the kinds of assignments that will contribute to their overall grade, be they papers, problem sets, or short-answer exam questions. Practice assignments have low stakes (usually graded pass/fail), but students receive prompt feedback and chances to revise. Students thus gain and build upon skills as assignments become progressively longer or more involved throughout the term: for example, students learn initially to reconstruct an argument from a text, then to evaluate their arguments, then to argue for their evaluations, then to construct original arguments for and against claims and positions.

I most especially enjoy teaching intro logic and "great works" in the history of philosophy. However, for the sake of both wider access to philosophy and, frankly, better philosophy, I also strive to incorporate diverse viewpoints into my classes by including plenty of non-male, non-Western, and non-white authors when possible. And as I consider matters of social justice to be the most pressing ethical issues of our day, I try to equip my students in ethics courses with critical concepts with which to better navigate their social worlds and to better understand others--concepts like structural injustice, epistemic injustice, double consciousness, and intersectionality.

INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD

Academic Year 2025-2026: Advanced Philosophy & Ethical Reasoning (PY251), U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Normative ethical theory, just war theory, and applied military ethics. 

Spring 2025: Ethics (PY320), U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Historical and contemporary normative ethics and metaethics. 

Academic Years 2024-2026: Philosophy & Ethical Reasoning (PY201), U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Normative ethical theory, just war theory, and applied ethics. 

Summer 2024: Tutorial in General Philosophy & Aesthetics, University of Oxford

Survey of the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, de Beauvoir, Sartre, and Wittgenstein, with emphasis on aesthetics and art.

Winter 2024 (Hilary Term): Tutorial in Western Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford

Legal (anti-)positivism and restorative justice. 

Fall 2022: Introduction to Moral Philosophy (PHI 202), Princeton University

Survey of historical normative ethical theories and contemporary practical issues of social justice.

Spring 2022: Explaining Value (PHI 380), Princeton University

Writing-intensive, seminar-style survey of historical and contemporary metaethical explanations of value and normativity. 

Spring 2019: Introduction to Logic (PHL 120), The College of New Jersey

Propositional and predicate logic.

Fall 2018: Introduction to Ethics (PHIL 102), Montclair State University

Normative ethics, metaethics, and applied ethics.

PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING

Philosophy for Children (P4C) SAPERE Online INSET Level 1 (June 2022)

Training for philosophy outreach and facilitation with minors (K-12).

Teaching Transcript, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton (August 2019)

Participated in multiple pedagogy programs, completed a classroom observation and feedback session, wrote teaching statements and syllabi.

Scholarly Approaches to Teaching Seminar (CTL 501), Princeton University (Fall 2018)

12-week course on current scholarship in learning and pedagogy.

TEAM TEACHING 

Spring 2020*: Introduction to Philosophy (PHI 102), Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix

With Thomas Lambert. Voluntary teaching for Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative.

*Course abbreviated due to COVID-19.

ASSISTANT IN INSTRUCTION (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)

Fall 2017: Practical Ethics (CHV 310/PHI 385) for Peter Singer

Spring 2017: Introduction to Moral Philosophy (PHI 202) for Elizabeth Harman & Sarah McGrath

Fall 2016: Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (PHI 205) for Simon Shogry