TEACHING

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Philosophy 3231: Kant’s Practical Philosophy (Fall 2025)

Overview of Kant’s moral and political philosophy and comparison to the political and moral philosophy of Smith and Rousseau.

Philosophy 2050: Social and Political Philosophy (Winter 2025)

Survey of central arguments in social and political philosophy with a particular focus on the justification of political authority, the meaning of political freedom, and debates on distributive justice.

Philosophy 2060: Moral Philosophy (Fall, 2024)

Survey of central arguments in moral philosophy, with a particular focus on trends in Western ethical theory, i.e., virtue ethics (Aristotle), deontology (Kant), and utilitarianism (Mill).

Philosophy 1011: Critical Reading and Writing in Ethics (Winter 2025, Fall 2025)

University of Chicago

Social Sciences 11400, 11500, 11600: Power, Identity, Resistance I, II, III (2020-2024)

A yearlong seminar course that examines the interrelated aspects of power in economic markets, political states, and social structures.

Philosophy 22211, 32211: Economic Justice and the Environment (2023)

Critical examination of contemporary theories of justice from an ecological perspective.

Hunter College, City University of New York

Philosophy 10400: Introduction to Ethics and Moral Judgment (2020)

Philosophy 23000: Feminist Philosophy (2019)

Philosophy 25000: Problems of Ethics and Society (2018)

Philosophy 24600: Political Philosophy (2016-2020, 5 times)

Upper level political philosophy course focusing on texts by Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Rawls, Marx, and Iris Marion Young.

Philosophy 10600: Philosophy, Politics, and Society (2015-2019, 6 times)

New York University

Texts & Ideas: Life and Death (2016)

GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Philosophy 4142/6062: Economic Justice and the Environment (Fall 2024)

Critical examination of contemporary theories of justice from an ecological perspective.

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