I teach in the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society and the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program at The Ohio State University and supervise undergraduate and graduate research. Syllabi are linked below where I have them.
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The Ohio State University
- PPE: Tradition, Progress, and Utopia (with Eric MacGilvray), 2026
- PPE: Economy, Polity, and Community (with Eric MacGilvray), 2025
Chapman University
- Political Philosophy, 2025
- Social Norms: The Rules of the Game (with Erik Kimbrough), 2025
- Toleration and its Discontents (with Michael Moses), 2023
- Utopia and Dystopia in Fiction & Film (with Michael Moses), 2019–2023
- Philosophy in Literature: Tragedy and Philosophy, 2022
- Moral Theory, 2021
- David Hume (junior/senior seminar), 2020
- Philosophy in Literature: On the Nature of Things Falling Apart, 2019
- Games and Decisions, 2019
- Cause, Effect, and Freedom (with Erik Kimbrough), 2019
- Global Justice, 2018
- The Tragedy in Morality (with Brennan McDavid), 2018
- Presidential Seminar (with Jan Osborn), 2018
Monash University
Honors seminars
- Hobbes and Spinoza, 2017
- Conventions, Norms, and Contracts, 2015, 2016
- Moral Psychology, 2015
- Rationality and Morality, 2014
Undergraduate
- Political Philosophy, 2014–2017
- Democratic Theory, 2015–2017
- Human Rights Theory 1, 2015–2017
University of Arizona
Research supervision
MA theses, Monash University
- Matthew Ringenbergs (with Toby Handfield), 2018–2019
- Lucy Mayne, 2016–2018
- James McGuire, 2016–2018
Honors theses, Monash University
- Jade Popper, 2017
- Andrew Belyea-Tate, 2016
- Lucy Mayne, 2015
PPE Graduate Summer Workshop
I founded and organize (with Ryan Muldoon) the PPE Graduate Summer Workshop, a week of methods training for graduate students working at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics.