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Biography

"I love coffee. Oh yeah, and my kids too. And my wife. And did I mention coffee?”

About My Teaching

One of my main goals in teaching is to help students realize how ideas matter for how we live our lives together. For instance, if we think that it's in some way bad to have a disability, this makes it easier to devalue disabled lives. Once we do that, we're likely as a society to give less opportunities to disabled individuals, which is historically what has happened.

Or, for another example, how we think about the nature of anger shapes our communal practices. Anger clearly can go wrong, becoming the vice of wrath that we see all too often in our culture. But anger also plays a crucial role in motivating us to take action against injustice. What role then does anger have in the moral life? How can we figure out what proper anger is?

I try to address these sorts of issues by bringing together relevant philosophical work with our own life experiences to see their importance and their 'grip' on us.