Co-lead instructor (with Dan Garber) as part of Princeton’s co-teaching initiative, shared twice-weekly lectures.

Course Description: The 17th century was a period of tumult and change in Europe. The Reformation had broken the hold of the Catholic Church, challenging long-held orthodoxies. Religion was also confronted by the Scientific Revolution, challenging comfortable beliefs about the world and our place in it. This led philosophers to rethink basic issues concerning religion. Who is telling us the truth, the Church or the scientist? Who is in charge, the religious or civil authorities? Is there really a God, and how can we know? This course will focus on these and other questions using primary textual readings from a variety of sources across the early modern period.

Led weekly discussion sections.

Course description: Can questions about what is right or wrong have real answers independent of any sort of divine authority? Are there moral principles that any rational person must recognize, or is morality essentially an expression of our feelings or a product of our culture? Are we morally required to do our part in making the world as good as it can be, or does morality give us permission to pursue our own peculiar enthusiasms and interests? What should we do about deception, unwanted pregnancies, and world hunger? This course will provide an overview of these and other issues in moral philosophy.

Led weekly discussion sections.

Course description: This course introduces students to the political and social philosophy of Marxism, and poses a critical question. Can the philosophy, so grounded on economics and class oppression, properly account for the ills of racial oppression? In exploring this question, we will look at the theoretical work of Black revolutionaries inspired by Marxism, such as Angela Davis, W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones and Walter Rodney; as well as work by some contemporary philosophers. This course will familiarize students with the thought of historical figures, and different views of the relationship between racial and class oppression, and how they operate.