Teaching philosophy

“Man only becomes man by education” Kant reportedly told his students. I hope that there’s some truth to it, for education has been the central defining object of my life so far, and I hope to spend the rest of my life educating myself and others about questions of justice and their history.

I seek to provide my students with a space wherein they are viewed as mature, equal, reasoners. In my classroom, what matters are the arguments and not age or gender or beauty or whatever else it is that so often determine what sort of recognition and respect we receive from other persons.

I seek to foster serious but relaxed atmosphere: serious in that I expect my students to be prepared and pay attention and never ridicule or take lightly the reasons offered sincerely by other students; relaxed in that they should feel that they are simply taking part of an interesting conversation about some hard question and that they can freely make up and speak their mind.

Teaching Experience

Term	Course
Fall 2014	Environmental Ethics, Suffolk University, Phil-362 / 662 Distributive Justice, Suffolk University, Phil-319/619 Social Ethics, Phil-123
Fall 2013	Environmental Ethics, Suffolk University, Phil-362 / 662 Distributive Justice, Suffolk University, Phil-319/619 Prosperity: The Nature, Sources, and Ethics of the Good Society, Suffolk University, Freshman Seminar.
Spring 2013	Honors Intro to Ethics, Suffolk University, Phil-H119 Biomedical Ethics, Suffolk University, Phil-363/663
Fall 2012	Environmental Ethics, Suffolk University, Phil-362 / 662 Distributive Justice, Suffolk University, Phil-319/619 Prosperity: The Nature, Sources, and Ethics of the Good Society, Suffolk University, Freshman Seminar.
Spring 2012	Honors Intro to Ethics, Suffolk University, Phil-H119
Fall 2011	Prosperity, Co-instructor, Brown University, Pols-1150 Environmental Ethics, Suffolk University, Phil-662 & Phil-362
Fall 2010	The Social Contract, University of Pennsylvania, Phil-008