Courses Taught

Philosophical Perspectives II

University of Chicago

Seminar exploring Early Modern skepticism, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Authors include Michel de Montaigne, Teresa of Ávila, Miguel de Cervantes, René Descartes, Elisabeth of Bohemia, David Hume

Philosophical Perspectives I

University of Chicago

Seminar exploring Ancient Greek and early Roman perspectives on the good life, virtue, knowledge, piety, and making sense of suffering.

Authors include Sophocles (Oedipus Tyrannus), Plato (Euthyphro, Meno, Apology, Republic), Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics), and Boethius (Consolation of Philosophy).

Ethics of Ignorance

Tufts University

Interdisciplinary seminar exploring ethical and epistemological perspectives on social ignorance.

Authors include Linda Martín Alcoff, Miranda Fricker, José Medina, Kristie Dotson, Mariana Ortega, María Lugones, Frantz Fanon, Iris Marion Young

María Lugones (1944-2020)

Philosophy of Language

Boston College

Upper-level graduate/undergraduate seminar on key debates in the philosophical study of language and meaning.

Authors include Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricœur, W. V. Quine, Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Political Emotion

Tufts University

Interdisciplinary seminar on political theory and moral psychology.

Authors include Sara Ahmed, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Karl Jaspers, Hans Jonas, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martha Nussbaum, Plato, Adam Smith, Bernard Williams

bell hooks (1952-2021)

Philosophy of the Person I

Boston College

Core history of philosophy course concentrating on Ancient and Medieval perspectives on personhood, justice, happiness, and virtue.

Authors include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, St. Thomas Aquinas

Philosophy of the Person II

Boston College

Core history of philosophy course concentrating on Early Modern to Contemporary perspectives on ethics and personhood.

Authors include René Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Søren Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, Hannah Arendt, Iris Marion Young, Charles Mills, Miranda Fricker

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)