Teacher

Introduction to Ethics

I am teaching two sections of Introduction to Ethics at St. Joseph's College in the fall 2011 semester.

During each class session, students divide into small groups to discuss cases which involve ethical issues. Here are this year's cases and questions.

The text will be Ethics and Living Well by Robert C Solomon.

Writings on Greek Tragedy

As part of my Sources of Great Western Ideas course, my students read Greek tragedies. Here is the list of plays that I have summarized. Here is my blog on Greek Theater.

Scholarly Activities

I presented a paper on Wittgenstein and the National Institutes of Health at the 2011 meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. I wrote a brief blog about the experience. Here is a link to the paper

I presented a paper on Immanual Kant's Dreams of a Spirit-seer Illuminated by Dreams of Metaphysics at the Spring 2011 conference of Long Island Philosophical Society. I wrote a brief blog about the experience. Here is a link to the paper