Course Syllabi & Sample Materials

Upper Level Seminars:

Elon

• PHL 3400 Modern Philosophy: Language, Myth & History
  • Textbook: Modern Philsophy Volume 1: Myth, Symbol, Magic: Spinoza To Freud (Blurb 2021)
  • Textbook: Modern Philosophy Volume 2: Politics, Language, History: Weimar to Today (Blurb 2021)

• Philosophy & Photography
  • Course website: philosophyofimages.wordpress.com
  • Class Tumblr (2020 & 2021): https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/philophotos
  • Class Publication, “Philosophy of Images, Volume 3” (Blurb 2021): https://www.blurb.com/b/10708385-philosophy-of-images

FAU

• Early Modern Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University (Fall 2018)
  • Sample Material: Daily Writing Assignments
  • Sample Material:Topic Paragraph and Annotated Works Cited
• Philosophy of Images (in 20th C.)  FAU (Spring 2018)
  • Sample Material: PPT: Visual Literacy, Elements of Composition

• Philosophy of Law, FAU (Fall 2017, Spring 2019)
  • Sample Assignment: Mock Court #2: Constitutional Court
• Philosophy of Religion, FAU (Fall 2017)
• Phenomenology, FAU (Spring 2017)
  • Sample Material: PPT: Heidegger, On 8 Ways of Viewing the Thing as Such
  • Sample Assignment: Reflection: Iris M. Young’s “Throwing like a Girl”
• Philosophy of Emotion and Feeling, FAU (Fall 2016)
  • Sample Assignments: Class Photography Blog, Fall 2016

Introductory Level Courses:

Elon

• How Should We Live? Future Selves, Doppelgangers, and Other Self Relations (Fall 2021 – ongoing)
  • Textbook : How Should We Live? Volume 1 (Blurb 2021)
  • Textbook : How Should We Live? Volume 2 (Blurb 2021)

FAU

• Introduction to Philosophy, FAU (8-16 sections/semester, writing intensive) (Fall 2016- ongoing)
  • Sample Material: PPT: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
  • Sample Material: Philosophical Essay Rubric
  • Sample Assignment: Reflection: Plato’s and Descartes’ Rationalism

Villanova University & Other Philadelphia Schools

• Formal Logic, Villanova University (Fall 2013, 2015)
• Applied Ethics, co-teaching with Rev. Charles Rice, Crigler Institute, Ursinus College (Summer 2016)
• Ethics & Leadership, Peirce College (Spring 2015, Fall 2015 online)
• Knowledge, Reality, Self: What is Society? VU (2013-15)
• Knowledge, Reality, Self: What is Science? VU (Fall 2012)

Courses in development:

• 20th C. Continental Research Methods (Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Existentialism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-Phenomenology)
• Foucault: Archaeologies, Genealogies, and Beyond
• Heidegger: Being and Time
• Philosophy of Culture & Anthropology
• Philosophy of History after the Holocaust
• Philosophy of Music and Technology

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