My main teaching areas are in my research areas as well as ethics of technology, political philosophy, philosophy of law, Ancient Greek philosophy, and logic.
Courses Taught at Bryn Mawr College
Data Ethics in Social Media (click here for syllabus)
This upper level course is an ethics course on social media and AI. Topics include how technology influences our values, whether we should regulate social media companies, who is responsible for the harms caused by social media, how to ethically design social media platforms, the value of data privacy, ethical issues concerning algorithmic bias, ethical use of AI in education, and the moral status of artificial intelligence.
Happiness and Reality in Ancient Thought (click here for syllabus)
This course is an introduction to philosophy through Ancient Greek philosophy. The central question of this course is "What is involved in living a good life?" The course focuses on Plato and Aristotle and ends with a survey of Hellinistic philosophy. We cover metaphysical questions about the nature of reality, epistemological questions about knowledge and its value, political questions about the just state, and ethical questions about virtue, all of which we tie to thinking about what constitutes a good life. Students gain an introduction to philosophically reading and analyzing texts and to philosophically critiquing and defending ideas in coversation and in writing.
Introduction to Logic (click here for syllabus)
This course is an introduction to formal logic. It focuses on propositional logic and ends with a brief introduction to predicate logic. Topics include validity and invalidity; truth tables; translating English sentences to formal notations; and proofs with truth-functional connectives as well as proofs with predicates and quantifiers.
Courses Taught at University of California San Diego
Freedom, Equality, and the Law (click here for syllabus)
This upper division course is an examination of freedom and equality under the U.S. Constitution, focusing on the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. This course covers theories of constitutional interpretation; the natures of freedom and equality as values; and landmark Supreme Court cases concerning discrimination on the basis of race, sex, undocumented status, wealth, sexual orientation, and gender identity, and cases regarding contraceptives, abortion, interracial marriage, same-sex marriage, and trans rights.
Introduction to Ethics of Technology (click here for syllabus)
This lower division course is an introduction to the ethics of technology. The course begins with metaethics, focusing moral realism vs. anti-realism. The course then shifts to surveying ethical and social issues concerning technology. Topics include how technology influences our values, whether we should regulate social media companies, and ethical issues concerning algorithmic use.
Technology and Human Values (click here for syllabus)
This upper division course is a survey of topics in value theory related to technology. Topics include ethical questions about how technology influences our values, political questions about whether and how we should regulate big tech companies, epistemological questions about deepfakes, and aesthetic questions about AI-generated content.