Syllabi and Teaching Resources
Below are links to some of my syllabi and teaching resources, all of which are to some degree works in progress.
But How Do I Participate?
A list of ways to participate in philosophical conversation. Especially (but not exclusively) for students new to philosophy.
PHILOS 119: Feminism and Philosophy (UC Berkeley, Fall 2021)
This advanced lecture course is an exploration of select issues at the intersection of feminism and philosophy. Featuring social units of feminist epistemology and de-colonial feminisms.
PHILOS 176: Hume (UC Berkeley, Spring 2021, Fall 2022)
An advanced lecture course on Hume's practical and theoretical philosophy.
PHILOS 290: Imagination and its Limits (UC Berkeley, Spring 2021)
A graduate seminar focused on this question: What is imagination, and what roles does imagination play in our lives as agents, practical reasoners, aspirants to virtue, and selves that care and are cared for?
PHIL 3931: Philosophy of Emotion (Tulane, Fall 2019)
This course for advanced undergraduates begins with basic questions about the nature of emotions, and then moves on to questions about the significance of emotions for human life, with a particular focus on their relation to rationality and morality.
PHIL 97: Questions of Character: Virtue Ethics East and West (Tulane, Spring 2019)
This mid-level course for undergraduates explores several of the most central and interesting debates surrounding character-centered ethics, drawing most centrally on Aristotelian and Confucian approaches to questions about the good life. Students are challenged to engage with both ancient and contemporary texts from distinct ethical traditions.
PHIL 6941: Feminist Philosophy (Tulane, Fall 2018)
This graduate-level course is an introduction to key issues in the feminist philosophical tradition. It explores questions about women’s identities, abilities, obligations, and struggles that arise in the domains of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Students will develop a sophisticated sense of one of the central recurring controversies in feminist theorizing: the tension between the efforts to valorize women’s ostensibly characteristic or distinctive natures(s), values, and abilities, on the one hand, and the resistance to essentializing or idealizing womanhood, on the other.
PHIL 6940: Sentiment and Morality: Hume and Smith (Tulane, Spring 2019)
For the philosophers of the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment, morality was a passionate affair: they claimed that our ethical concerns and concepts have a sentimental origin, and that moral precepts ultimately receive their authority from the heart, not the head. This graduate level course explores in detail the work of the two greatest sentimentalists, David Hume and Adam Smith. Topics that receive particular attention include the work of sympathy, the constitution of conscience, the nature of evaluative properties, and the possibility of moral corruption.
A list of ways to participate in philosophical conversation. Especially (but not exclusively) for students new to philosophy.
PHILOS 119: Feminism and Philosophy (UC Berkeley, Fall 2021)
This advanced lecture course is an exploration of select issues at the intersection of feminism and philosophy. Featuring social units of feminist epistemology and de-colonial feminisms.
PHILOS 176: Hume (UC Berkeley, Spring 2021, Fall 2022)
An advanced lecture course on Hume's practical and theoretical philosophy.
PHILOS 290: Imagination and its Limits (UC Berkeley, Spring 2021)
A graduate seminar focused on this question: What is imagination, and what roles does imagination play in our lives as agents, practical reasoners, aspirants to virtue, and selves that care and are cared for?
PHIL 3931: Philosophy of Emotion (Tulane, Fall 2019)
This course for advanced undergraduates begins with basic questions about the nature of emotions, and then moves on to questions about the significance of emotions for human life, with a particular focus on their relation to rationality and morality.
PHIL 97: Questions of Character: Virtue Ethics East and West (Tulane, Spring 2019)
This mid-level course for undergraduates explores several of the most central and interesting debates surrounding character-centered ethics, drawing most centrally on Aristotelian and Confucian approaches to questions about the good life. Students are challenged to engage with both ancient and contemporary texts from distinct ethical traditions.
PHIL 6941: Feminist Philosophy (Tulane, Fall 2018)
This graduate-level course is an introduction to key issues in the feminist philosophical tradition. It explores questions about women’s identities, abilities, obligations, and struggles that arise in the domains of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Students will develop a sophisticated sense of one of the central recurring controversies in feminist theorizing: the tension between the efforts to valorize women’s ostensibly characteristic or distinctive natures(s), values, and abilities, on the one hand, and the resistance to essentializing or idealizing womanhood, on the other.
PHIL 6940: Sentiment and Morality: Hume and Smith (Tulane, Spring 2019)
For the philosophers of the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment, morality was a passionate affair: they claimed that our ethical concerns and concepts have a sentimental origin, and that moral precepts ultimately receive their authority from the heart, not the head. This graduate level course explores in detail the work of the two greatest sentimentalists, David Hume and Adam Smith. Topics that receive particular attention include the work of sympathy, the constitution of conscience, the nature of evaluative properties, and the possibility of moral corruption.