Teaching 

Full Participation: I aim to teach every student philosophical habits of mind, which will help them understand the world and themselves. It’s a lot easier for students to build these habits if they are fully engaged. To achieve this, I create a technology-free environment where every student participates in every class. This approach involves low-stakes activities such as the thought experiment of the day, exit tickets, and moving debates.  

Active Learning: Moral reasoning, critical thinking, public speaking and writing are all skills that require a lot of practice. My classes include simulations, hot-seat debates, collaborative puzzles, and games that require students to generate and respond to objections in real time.

Embodied Ethics: For applied ethics classes, I developed the Purpose Project, which is a new approach to teaching ethics that asks students to test new philosophical ideas in their own lives. Each project includes an embodied assignment in the real world, which then connects to philosophical readings. These 'purpose projects' prompt students to connect abstract principles to the everyday questions that matter to them.