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In Spring 2025, I will be teaching Political and Legal Philosophy (PHIL 318) at Chapman.
Information on previous courses taught, and teaching portfolio materials, can be found below. While in graduate school at USC, I was an instructor of record for courses on early modern philosophy, logic/critical thinking, and ethics. As a Teaching Assistant, I led discussion sections for political philosophy, ethics, and ancient philosophy.
Teaching Portfolio Materials
PDF version of entire Teaching Portfolio
Pedagogy Presentations and Talks
Complete Student Evaluations from USC
Course-Specific Materials (syllabi, videos, assignments, course-by-course evaluations, etc.) - below
Courses Taught
As Instructor of Record:
History of Western Philosophy: Modern Period
Reasoning and Argument
(3x) Ethics in the 21st Century (college course for high school students)
Introduction to Ethics (with Prison Education Project)
As Teaching Assistant:
Ancient Foundations of Western Thought
(2x) Ethical Theory and Practice
Freedom, Equality, and Social Justice
History of Western Philosophy: Modern Period (PHIL 320). Spring 2023, USC. Instructor of record.
As a Mentored Teaching Fellow of USC's Center for Excellence in Teaching. 25 students. In-person.
Handout: Timeline of course readings alongside major historical events; given to students during the first week.
PHIL 320 - Early Modern Philosophy Timeline.pdfPre/Post Course Survey. Students answered and then discussed the same survey questions, related to the course content, on the first and last day of class.
Asynchronous Course Videos: Introductory material for Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Created for students to watch prior to each of the four Kant readings. Transcripts.
Class Recordings: Kant Day 1 (with some Hume) and Wollstonecraft Day 1. To preserve student privacy, all student comments and contributions to discussion have been edited out. If you have any questions or would like more information about these class sessions, please contact me.
For Kant slides see here. For Wollstonecraft slides see here.
For better quality video of Kant class see here. For better quality video of Wollstonecraft class see here.
Assignment: During an early unit on informal fallacies, students were asked to analyze and evaluate specific arguments from Jonathan Swan's interview of Donald Trump from August 2020. Interview uploaded to Vimeo (originally on YouTube)
Assignment 2 for 122.pdfAssignment: After beginning predicate logic, students received another 2020 U.S. election-related assignment. Four questions about truth trees were to be completed in groups. The other five asked students to reconstruct arguments from the Vice Presidential debate, translate them into predicate logic, and evaluate them. Video of debate.
Assignment 7 for 122B.pdfAsynchronous Course Video: Truth Tables. Created for students to watch before class. They came to class with questions about the material and ready to work through example problems as a group.
Asynchronous Course Video: Updating on Evidence and the Base Rate Fallacy. Created for students to watch before class, alongside a required reading from David Manley's Reason Better textbook.
A student's column from the Daily Trojan, USC's student newspaper. The student draws on course content and credits the course for helping to inspire the piece.
(3x) Ethics in the 21st Century: Business, Politics, and Technology (CORE 195). Summers 2019, 2020, 2021, USC. Co-instructor of record.
For USC's Summer Programs for High School Students. I designed and co-taught this course with David Clark in 2019, Jasmine Gunkel in 2020, and Laura Siscoe in 2021. 15-30 students: high schoolers seeking college credit. 2019 in-person, 2020 and 2021 online.
2021 Voting on a Desert Island.pdfOriginal Voting System Activity.pdfIntroduction to Ethics. Fall 2020, USC Prison Education Project. Co-instructor of record.
Taught incarcerated students in the Santa Fe Springs Transitional Reentry Program. Very small class: attendance varied and students were not permitted to have the classroom camera on. Online.
Ancient Foundations of Western Thought (PHIL 104). Fall 2022, USC. Teaching Assistant.
Two discussion sections. Lead instructor: John Dreher. Mostly in-person.
Freedom, Equality, and Social Justice (PHIL 174). Fall 2018, USC. Teaching Assistant.
Two discussion sections. Lead instructor: Jonathan Quong. In-person.
Student Evaluations: Section 1 Section 2
Assignment: Shelby on Punishment (and 2018 Election)
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