Teaching

This course is for philosophy majors. 

This course covers fundamental concepts and arguments in meta-ethics and normative ethics: moral realism and anti-realism; naturalism and intuitionism; consequentialism and deontology; virtue ethics and character-based moral theory; religious, ethnic, and historically-situated moral theories, and some recent trends in moral psychology.  

This is a higher-level course in African Philosophy, primarily on personhood. 

This course covers fundamental concepts, arguments, and trends in contemporary African moral and political philosophy, with a focus on West African and South African views of personhood. Special attention is given to the philosophical traditions of the Akan (Ghana), and the Nso (Cameroon). 

I teach two online sections of this course.

This course explores the historical relationship between Western philosophy and race and investigates the ways in which philosophy can be used to address contemporary racial issues. It has five parts: ontology (mostly social constructionist views), science (race realism and implicit bias) morality (racial fetishes, and racist jokes), politics (affirmative action and mass incarceration), and culture.