Teaching

At Penn State, I regularly teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Philosophy, as well as a course on responsible conduct of research in life and health sciences for graduate students in the colleges of Health and Human Development and Agricultural Sciences.

In addition to my regular classroom teaching, I have been a faculty member at the annual Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Umbria, Italy (2019, 2003, 1999), guest lecturer for the Danenberg Oberlin-in-London Program (2018), faculty co-organizer of the Oberlin in Africatown Environmental Justice Project (2015), faculty member of the Summer Field Course in Restoration Ecology at University of Oregon’s Bend Campus (2006- 2007), and co-coordinator for the Summer Study Abroad in France program at Emporia State University (2000-2002).

Below is a list of courses taught throughout my career, with links to selected syllabi.

Courses at Penn State (2017 – )

Philosophy 001: Big Questions
(Fall 2022 syllabus pdf) (Fall 2021 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 013: Nature and Environment
(Fall 2020 syllabus pdf) (Fall 2019 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 118: Introduction to Environmental Ethics (honors)
(Spring 2019 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 402: World, Earth, and Planet: Seminar in European Philosophy (Spring 2023 syllabus pdf)
RISE 500L: Responsible Conduct of Research in Life and Health Sciences (Spring 2023 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 557: 20th Century Philosophy Seminar: Critical Ecophenomenology (Spring 2020 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 564: Major Figures in 20th Century Philosophy (Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception) (Fall 2017 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 580: Phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception) (Spring 2022 syllabus pdf)

Courses at University of Oregon (2003 – 2016)

Environmental Studies 199: College Connections: What Good is Nature?
Environmental Studies 203: Introduction to Environmental Studies: Humanities
Philosophy 310: Ancient & Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy 340: Environmental Philosophy
(Fall 2007 syllabus pdf)
Environmental Studies 345: Environmental Ethics
(Spring 2006 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 407/507: Touching Touch
(Winter 2015 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 407/507: Ecophenomenology
Art 407/507: Ecotheory in Art & Philosophy (with Carla Bengtson, Art)
Art 407/507: Art/Environment/Philosophy (With Carla Bengtson, Art)
Environmental Studies 410/510: Environmental Ethics
Environmental Studies 410/510: Philosophy of Ecology (with Brendan Bohannan, Biology) (Spring 2010 syllabus pdf)
Environmental Studies 440/540: Environmental Aesthetics
(Fall 2008 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 463/563: Bergson
Philosophy 463/563: Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature
(Fall 2005 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 463/563: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
Philosophy 540: Animality
Philosophy 607, 615: Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition
Philosophy 607: Seminar: Philosophy & Teaching
Environmental Studies 607: Graduate Orientation Seminar
Philosophy 615: Continental Philosophy: Animality
(Winter 2012 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 615: Merleau-Ponty’s Chiasm
(Spring 2016 syllabus pdf)
Environmental Studies 631: Environmental Studies in Theory and Practice
Environmental Studies 633: Graduate Thesis Development
Philosophy 645: The Concept of Nature
(Winter 2010 syllabus pdf)
Philosophy 645: Phenomenology of Nature
(Fall 2012 syllabus pdf)

Course at Oberlin College (Spring 2011)

Environmental Studies 313: Ecophenomenology: The Experience of Nature
(Spring 2011 syllabus pdf)

Courses at Emporia State University (1998 – 2003)

College Wide 221: Major Ideas in Western Civilization
Philosophy 225: Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy 255: Ethics
Philosophy 256: Logic
Philosophy 256: Logic & Critical Thinking (online course)
Philosophy 370: Ancient Philosophy
Philosophy 375: Contemporary Philosophy: Heidegger’s Being & Time
Philosophy 500: Environmental Ethics
Philosophy 500: Eastern Philosophy
Philosophy 500: Philosophy of Art
Philosophy 500: Race & Gender in Existentialism
Philosophy 500: Postmodern Political Philosophy
Philosophy 500: Ecological Philosophy
Philosophy 500: Phenomenology: An Introduction

Courses at Kalamazoo College (1997 – 1998)

Philosophy 410: Problems in Philosophy: Ethics
Philosophy 490: Senior Seminar on Merleau-Ponty
Philosophy 500: Environmental Ethics
Philosophy 540: Nineteenth Century Philosophy: Kant to Nietzsche
Philosophy 540: Philosophy and Literature
Philosophy 555: Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Philosophy 560: Existentialism

Courses at Florida Atlantic University (1996 – 1997)

Philosophy 3132: Logic
Philosophy 3640: Environmental Ethics