It is not uncommon for graduate students in philosophy to be thrown into teaching without any formal training or preparation. This practice seems to rest on the misguided notion that if one knows the philosophy, then one will be able to teach it (or more pessimistically, teaching is not valued enough to prioritize it within […]
Last semester I took a seminar with Renée Jorgensen on moral rights and social norms. One of the main questions we discussed throughout the seminar is how a special kind of moral ignorance about non-moral facts (what R. Jorgensen calls “normative opacity” in her book manuscript) influences how people act in a setting where some […]
In this post, I will reflect on my experience in the Critical Philosophy of Race class I took with Jackie Scott at Loyola University Chicago in Spring 2022. I chose this experience because the pedagogical model of the class offered me something different from other philosophy courses I have taken. I would broadly describe this […]