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