If there is something that gives meaning to my job and keeps me motivated, that is teaching.

In the classroom, I always strive to create an open and constructive environment where students can critically and freely discuss philosophical issues, with me and among themselves. My primary goals as a philosophy instructor are (1) to convey and cultivate the value of clarity when expressing one’s own ideas in spoken or written form and (2) to enable students to see how philosophical issues are relevant to their lives in ways that are not always immediately evident.

Below you will find a list of courses I have taught as a full instructor, guest lectures I have given, and courses where I served as a teaching assistant. A teaching portfolio, which includes my teaching statement, student evaluations, faculty-written teaching letters, and letters of support from former students I have taught or supervised in their theses, is available upon request: please feel free to reach out about it!

Full Instructor

University of Amsterdam

Spring-Summer 2023

Metaphysics

Ethics and the Good Life

Fixing Frankenstein: Normative Questions in Philosophy of Technology

Feminism and Philosophy

Bachelorscriptie Filosofie: Ethics and the Good Life

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Fall-Winter 2022-23

Academic Skills [two courses]

University at Buffalo

Winter 2022

Summer 2021

Summer 2020

Spring 2019

Fall 2018

Spring 2018

Introduction to Ethics

Critical Thinking

Medical Ethics: Social and Ethical Values in Medicine

Contemporary Moral Problems

Introduction to Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy


Guest Lectures

University of Neuchâtel [unless otherwise stated]

2024

Est-ce que les machines peuvent penser?
13 Questions inconturnables (BA Course) – October 9, 2024

Metaphysical Realism and Anti-realism
Concepts-clés de philosophie contemporaine (MA Proseminar) – October 2, 2024

Foucault
Histoire de la Philosophie – Treize philosophes incontournables (BA Course) – May 22, 2024

Social Kinds
Philosophy of Language (BA Course), University of Antwerp – May 15, 2024

AI Systems, Social Agency, and Emotions (co-taught with G. Sansò)
Effort and Capacities (MA Seminar) – May 7, 2024

Using BFO to Build Ontologies
Formal Ontology (BA Seminar) – May 6, 2024

How to Write and Publish a Paper (co-taught with S.-P. Chevarie-Cossette)
Professional Skills
(MA Proseminar) – March 13, 2024

Ontologies in Context: The Semantic Web, OWL, and Protégé
Formal Ontology
(BA Seminar) – March 11, 2024

Objections to John Searle’s Account of Social Reality
Social Ontology (MA Seminar) – February 27, 2024

2023

Est-ce que les machines peuvent penser?
13 Questions inconturnables (BA Course) – October 11, 2023

2021

The Puzzle of the Statue and the Clay
Metaphysics (BA Course), University at Buffalo November 23, 2021


Teaching Assistant

University at Buffalo

Fall 2021

Spring 2021

Fall 2020

Spring 2020

Fall 2017

Spring 2017

Spring 2016

Fall 2015

N.E. Williams Metaphysics

N.E. Williams Social Ontology

N.E. Williams Philosophy of Science

N.E. Williams Philosophy of Science

D. Hershenov Medical Ethics: Social & Ethical Values in Medicine

M. Gifford Contemporary Moral Problems

M. Donnelly World Civilization

M. Donnelly World Civilization