"I do not insist that my argument is right in all other respects, but I would contend at all costs, both in word and deed, as far as I could, that we will be better people, braver and less lazy, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know..." –Socrates (Plato, Meno 86b)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
As Sole Instructor
Undergraduate Teaching
• Year-long introductory course at Boston College (5 years)
Topic: philosophy of human nature (from Egypt to Arendt)
• Semester-long, upper-division core course at Loyola Marymount University (6 semesters)
Topic: Ethics (focus on Aristotle, Kant, responses to each)
• Semester-long, introductory core course at LMU (4 semesters)
Topic: modes of inquiry in the history of philosophy, focused on problems of metaphysics and epistemology
Graduate Teaching
• Semester-long graduate course at LMU (once; M.A. students) – Topic: Freud and philosophy
• Semester-long reading group for M.A. students at LMU (twice)
Topics: philosophy of language and Freud's psychoanalysis; the negative and nothingness through Heidegger's career
At Catholic Theological Institute, Bomana:
• Introduction to Philosophy
• Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy
• Seminar: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
• Supplementary English