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)