Philosophy
- Winter 2020: I will be TAing Howard Wettstein’s Evil
- Fall 2020: I was the TA for Chris McVey’s Evil
- Spring 2020: I was the TA for Josh Wood’s Biomedical Ethics.
Due to COVID-19, this course was entirely remote. My strategy involved more elaborate worksheets for students to complete before coming to section. Because the emergency conditions did not allow equitable access to high-speed internet and available time/space to participate live, I made sections optional times for students to ask for guidance on the worksheets. This ended up being more work for worse results.
In the first week, I had students fill out a basic questionaire.
These slides explain why we bother with counterarguments to get students to understand what they are.
This worksheet guides students through organizing a paper that describes an argument. I use an argument from Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat Ethics”.
This worksheet uses Hardin’s piece to understand how arguments generally work.
This worksheet explains how to develop one’s own counterargument. - Winter 2019: I was the TA for Jeremy Pober’s Mind and Reality.
- Fall 2019: I was the TA for Michael Nelson’s Logic
- Summer 2019: I was the TA for Tom Hanauer’s Evil.
A worksheet on the ethics of eating meat Tom and I made is available here. - Spring 2019: I was the TA for Luca Ferrero’s Intro to Philosophy
- Winter 2018: I was the TA for Josef Muller’s History of Ancient Greek Philosophy
- Fall 2018: I was the TA for Eric Schwitzgebel’s Evil.
I gave a lecture on Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals. Slides available here.