Teaching

Recent courses taught at Trent university

PHIL 4610H: The History of Skepticism
PHIL 4610H: Pierre Bayle on Religion and Politics
PHIL 4390H: Advanced Topics in Biomedical Ethics
PHIL 4210H: Science Deniers, Skeptics, and Conspiracy Theorists
PHIL 3430H: Early Modern Philosophy II: The Enlightenment
PHIL 3420H: Early Modern Philosophy I: Reason and Revolution
PHIL 3370H: Cyberethics
PHIL 3030H: The Meaning of Life
PHIL 2580H: Philosophy and Film
PHIL-COIS 2410H: Formal Logic
PHIL 2390H: Biomedical Ethics
PHIL 2030H: Death
PHIL 1200H: Critical Thinking
PHIL 1100H: Introduction to Philosophy—Moral and Political
PHIL 1000H: Introduction to Philosophy—Knowledge and Reality

independent studies supervised at Trent

2025: Philosophy of Poetry
2024: Science and Religion
2020: Chess and Mind
2019: Conscience and Conscientious Objection
2017: Skepticism and Toleration
2015: Ethics of Information

distinctions

2024: Nominated for the Humanities/Social Sciences Decanal Teaching Award (Trent)
2024: Nominated for the Symons Award for Teaching Excellence (Trent)
2023: Nominated for the Humanities/Social Sciences Decanal Teaching Award (Trent)
2023: Nominated for the Symons Award for Teaching Excellence (Trent)
2022: Nominated for the Humanities/Social Sciences Decanal Teaching Award (Trent)
2022: Nominated for the Symons Award for Teaching Excellence (Trent)
2021: Nominated for the Symons Award for Teaching Excellence (Trent)
2020: Nominated for the Symons Award for Teaching Excellence (Trent)
2020: Nominated for Award for Excellence in Online Teaching (Trent)
2020: Nominated to deliver The Last Lecture (Trent)
2017: Trent University Centre for Teaching and Learning Teaching Fellowship for the project “Teaching the News: A Case-Based Approach to Applied Ethics Teaching.” $6,000.
2016: Mil Clark Award for Faculty Engagement in College Life, Lady Eaton College (Trent)
2009: Graduate Student Teaching Award (Western)

Trent University in the spring