Teaching Experience
Graduate Courses
Valuing, Narrative, and What Matters in Life (Toronto: Fall 2015)
Undergraduate Courses
Political Philosophy (Toronto: Fall 2014, Winter 2016; Barnard College: Spring 2013)
Biomedical Ethics (University of California, Riverside: Spring 2014)
Applied Ethics (Pratt Institute: Fall
2012, Spring 2013)
Philosophy of Education (Barnard College: Spring 2012)
Ethics of the Family
(University of California, Riverside: Winter 2014)
The Nature of Love (Toronto: Fall 2014; 2014-2015)
Introduction to Philosophy (New Jersey City University: Fall 2009)
Survey of Ancient Philosophy (Columbia: Summer
2004)
Contemporary Civilization [a Great Books course] (Columbia: 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2008-2009)
Departmental
Service
2015-2016 Ethics Search Committee
2014- Coordinator
for Ethics and Political Philosophy Interest Group
Publications
“Holding on to the Reasons of the Heart: Cognitive Degeneration and the Capacity to Love,” coauthored
with Agnieszka
Jaworksa, forthcoming in Love, Reason, and Morality, Esther
Kroeker and Katrien Schaubroeck (eds.) (London: Routledge, 2016).
"On Becoming an Adult: Autonomy and the
Moral Relevance of Life’s Stages,” Philosophical Quarterly 63 (April 2013), 223-247.
“Creation and Authority:
The Natural Law Foundations of Locke’s Account of Parental Authority,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 42,
Nos. 3/4, (September/December 2012), 255-280.
Book Review of Norvin Richards, The Ethics of Parenthood
(Oxford University Press, 2010). Journal of Value Inquiry 46 (March 2012):117–121.
Book Review of Jonathan
Wolff, Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge, 2011). Journal of Applied Philosophy 29
(August 2012): 266-268.
Presentations
April 6, 2015
TBA
Centre for Ethics, Ethics at Noon
University of Toronto
March 29, 2016 "Patient Autonomy and Mature
Minors"
Joint
Centre for Bioethics, Seminar Series
University of Toronto
April 22, 2015 “Lingering
Feelings: Caring, Internality, and the Self,”
Colloquium, University of California Riverside
December 10, 2014 “Remaining True
to Ourselves: Dementia, Value-Change, and Self-Binding”
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
July 7, 2014
“Two Aspects of Charity”
Why Charity? The Politics and Ethics of Charity
The
University of Brighton
June 29, 2014
“Impairments of Reason and the Capacity to Love”
Keynote Address with Agnieszka Jaworska
Society for Applied Philosophy
St. Anne’s College, Oxford University
July 12, 2013 “Love
and Attachment”
Love & Human Agency Workshop, Lake Tahoe, California
April 5, 2013
“Might there be a Kantian Political Liberalism,”
Comment on Japa Pallikkathayil’s “Political Reasons”
New York German Idealism Workshop
Columbia University
February 8, 2013 “Remaining
True to Ourselves: Dementia, Value-Change, and Self-Binding”
Binghamton University, SUNY
February 1, 2013 "Remaining
True to Ourselves: Dementia, Value-Change, and Self-Binding"
University
of California, Riverside
January 25, 2013 "Remaining
True to Ourselves: Dementia, Value-Change, and Self-Binding"
University of Toronto
January 26, 2012 "Loving
for the Right Reasons"
University of Illinois, Chicago
July 1, 2007
Comments on Peter Morriss, "Marriage and Liberalism: An Underexplored Tension"
"Philosophy and the Family"
Society for Applied Philosophy
University of Birmingham, UK