Teaching Philosophy

I aim to communicate to students the joys and value of the philosophic quest. This quest, I believe, begins with the feeling Abraham Heschel described as "radical amazement," a state of mind in which we no longer take anything for granted, where "each thing is a surprise," especially the fact that there is anything at all! This feeling is the inexhaustible fount of our love for wisdom, a feeling most students have had at one point or another. As an instructor, I simply try to reinvigorate that feeling in students and provide them with the tools to continue in the spirit of radical amazement beyond the classroom. 

Course Instructor

Introduction to Philosophy and Issues Related to God, Faith, and Reason 

Introduction to Philosophy and Issues Related to God, Faith, and Reason 

Bioethics

Philosophy of Religion

Intro: Philosophy and Issues Related to God, Faith, and Reason

Intro: Survey of Philosophy

Women in Early Modern Philosophy 

Environmental Ethics 

Intro: Survey of Philosophy

Teaching Assistant

World Religions (w/ Brandon Peterson

Survey of Early Modern Philosophy (w/ Lex Newman)

Deductive Logic (w/Chapman Waters)

Intro: Philosophy and Human Nature (w/ Eric Hutton)

Intro: Philosophy and Human Nature (w/ Anne Siebels Peterson)

Selected Lecture Slides

Death

Pascal's Wager

The Problem of Divine Hiddenness

Science & Religion

Kierkegaard: Paradox, Passion, and Faith

The Problem of Evil: The Case Against God