I previously taught graduate and undergraduate courses in philosophy of science, early modern philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics.
More information about my teaching experience and qualifications can be found below, and my teaching materials and course evaluations are available upon request.
Instructor
Winter 2023 - 2024
Scientific Realism and Its Discontents, LMU Munich. This seminar examines central issues surrounding the debate over scientific realism. Topics covered: (i) the core ideas behind scientific realism and a brief sketch of their evolution since the Scientific Revolution; (ii) the main challenges raised against scientific realism during the 20th. c. and some of the most popular responses; (iii) new challenges made particularly vivid by contemporary scientific research. [Syllabus WiSe 23/24]
Winter 2022 - 2023
Reduction and Emergence, LMU Munich. This seminar examines central issues surrounding the topic of reduction and emergence in philosophy of science. Topics covered: (i) the general debate over reduction and emergence (including classical texts) and key concepts such as multiple realizability, supervenience, and grounding; (ii) philosophical discussions related to intertheoretic relations, approximations, and idealizations in the context of physics; (iii) more speculative metaphysical debates regarding the concepts of level and fundamentality. [Syllabus WiSe 22/23]
2018 - 2020
Contemporary Civilization, Core Curriculum, Columbia University. This year-long discussion-based seminar required for all second-year undergraduate students covers major texts in ethical, political, and economic thought from Plato and Aristotle to Smith, Du Bois, Arendt, and Foucault. [Syllabus Fall 2019] [Syllabus Spring 2020]
Summer 2018
Early Modern Philosophy, Columbia University. This course provides an introduction to major philosophers of the early modern period, including Descartes, Princess Elisabeth, Spinoza, Leibniz, Conway, Locke, and Hume. The course examines their engagement with the Scientific Revolution and evaluates their views about the philosophical method, the nature of reality, the foundations and extent of knowledge, and the foundations of science. [Syllabus Summer 2018]
Summer 2017
Philosophy of Science, Columbia University. This course provides an introduction to some of the main fundamental questions and debates in the philosophy of science, including standard topics such as the nature of science, the scientific method, laws of nature, scientific realism, natural kinds, the structure of theories, and scientific progress. The course draws upon detailed historical examples and specific case-studies from the sciences (e.g., physics, economics, evolutionary theory). [Syllabus, Semester-Long Format]
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2017
Symbolic Logic
Fall 2016
Metaphysics
Spring 2016
Physics and Philosophy
Fall 2015
Introduction to Philosophy
Spring 2015
History of Philosophy II: Aquinas to Kant
Fall 2014
Methods and Problems of Philosophical Thought