Teaching
Courses I Have Taught
Ethics and Information Technology
An online course about the use, misuse, and development of information technologies, with particular focus on the consequences such changes may have on the lives of individuals and on the shape of societies. (View Syllabus)
Philosophy and Race
An online course that discusses ontological, scientific, moral, political, and cultural issues surrounding race. (View Syllabus)
Ethics
An introductory course examining various moral theories, contemporary social problems, and meaning in life.
Introduction to Medical Ethics
An introductory course exploring the broad nature and scope of health, including the meaning of health, disease, responsibility, informed consent, psychiatric diagnosis, neurodiversity, and death.
Reading, Writing, and Reasoning
A course that develops students' general reading and writing skills with respect to an important philosophical topic. I taught this course on Moral Character.
Some Courses I'd Like to Teach
Moral Theory
Courses examining differences between normative theories, the differences between a naturalist and non-naturalist conception of those theories, and major Western figures in ethics (particularly Sidgwick, Moore, Ross, Parfit, and Bernard Williams).
Moral Psychology
Courses examining how psychological facts ought to shape our understanding of concepts such as reason, desire, emotion, motivation, and judgement.
Africana Philosophy
Courses exploring Africana philosophy as an emerging project that seeks to carefully explain longstanding and developing ideas associated with various historical or socio-political similarities among the African people.
Outreach and Other Stuff
I read to grade school children in Mexico City (2018)
I work to make the classroom accessible, particularly through well-typeset notes, slides, readings, and other visual aids. For example, see a short lecture from my course on Philosophy and Race.
I am interested in public philosophy, and have done outreach work for the Philosophy Outreach Program of Colorado for K-12 students.
Including all of my results as instructor of record, I outperform the University of Colorado on 83% of course questions. These results are publicly available.
I've completed the requirements for CU Boulder's Certificate in College Teaching.