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Previous courses
Undergraduate: My undergraduate teaching covers a wide range of subjects, with particular emphasis on classes in environmental philosophy, philosophy and literature, philosophy and religion, and specific figures in continental philosophy.
- Aesthetics and the Call of the Other
- American Philosophy: Transcendentalism and Pragmatism
- Environmental Ethics
- Environmental Philosophy
- Environmental Virtue Ethics
- Ethics
- First Year Seminar: Embodiment
- First Year Seminar: The Best Life
- First Year Seminar: Great Books
- First Year Seminar: Living and Thinking in the West
- Hermeneutics
- Henry David Thoreau
- Introduction to Environmental Studies
- Michel Serres
- Narrative and Identity
- Nature and Wilderness
- On Human Dignity
- Philosophical Inquiry
- Philosophy and Literature
- Philosophy and Culture
- Philosophy of the Person I
- Philosophy of the Person II
- Philosophy of Human Nature
- Philosophy of the Arts
- Postmodernism
- Postmodernism/Philosophy of Religion
- Pragmatism
- Paul Ricoeur
- Society and Its Discontents
- Transcendentalism and Pragmatism
- Wilderness and Wildness
Graduate: my graduate teaching has focused on themes and figures in continental philosophy, with additional courses in environmental philosophy.
- Contemporary French Philosophy
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Environmental Philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy and Literature
- Pragmatism
- Hermeneutics
- Narrative and Identity
- Narrative and Ethics
- Topics in Continental Philosophy
- Virtue Ethics