Teaching
Courses Taught
Ancient Philosophy
A course that surveys the history of ancient Greek philosophy from pre-Socratic poetry through the Cynics, with different thematic emphases each year. Authors and philosophies studied include Hesiod, Milesians, Pythagoreans, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Epicurus, Stoics, and Cynics.
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2024 Theme: Origins of democracy
Feminist Philosophies
A course that introduces students to feminist thinking dialogically. Authors read include Christine de Pizan, Harriet Taylor Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, María Lugones, Edith Stein, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Patricia Hill Collins, and Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Women in Western Philosophy
A course that explores the historical concepts of femininity alongside the contributions that women have made to the history of philosophy. Authors read include Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Christine de Pizan, St. Theresa of Avila, Emilie du Châtelet, Margaret Cavendish, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Edith Stein, and Simone Weil.
Philosophy of Ethical Responsibility
A course that introduces students to the history of ethical thinking. Beginning with metaethics to inform our inquiry, we explore the major normative ethical theories, drawing from primary sources to ground our studies. Authors read include: Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Rawls, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Peter Singer, Virginia Held, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Philosophy & The Good Life
An introductory core course that explores the perennial existential questions that have occupied the history of philosophy from its inception. Authors read include Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Marcus Aurelius, St. Thomas, Descartes, Mill, Kant, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, and others.
Philosophy of the Person
An introductory core course that engages questions about human nature and the pursuit of the good life.
