I have taught philosophy courses in Canada, France, and the U.S., both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The philosophical classroom has always been — and I suspect will always be — the place where I feel the most comfortable and have the most fun.
At San José State University, I have taught upper-division philosophy courses on Science, Technology & Human Values; Computers, Ethics & Society, and Philosophy of Law. In these courses, most of my students are not philosophy majors, and one of my greatest pleasures in life is to witness aspiring computer scientists engage with rigorous philosophical thinking for the first time. At the lower-division level, I have taught Modern Philosophy.
I also work with graduate students. As the graduate co-advisor for my department, I evaluate all applications to our M.A. program and meet with M.A. students individually to ensure that they are on track with their studies. Recently, I have taught seminars on political epistemology, freedom of expression, and democratic theory, and supervised directed readings on algorithmic discrimination, digital privacy, and the ethics of AI.
My classroom is demographically diverse in terms of race, gender, class, and religious affiliations. A very large number of my students are also first-generation college students, and I can hardly think of a better way to earn a living than to help them obtain a university diploma.
Below is a list of courses I have taught and of undergraduate students I have supervised.
Courses taught
As main Instructor at the San José State University
Spring 2023: Seminar on Democratic Theory
Fall 2023: Modern Philosophy
Spring 2023: Graduate Pro-Seminar
Spring 2023: Seminar on Freedom of Expression
Spring 2022: Graduate Pro-Seminar
Spring 2022: Computer, Ethics and Society (upper-division undergraduate level course)
Fall 2021: Philosophy of Law (upper-division undergraduate level course)
Fall 2021: Computer, Ethics and Society (upper-division undergraduate level course)
Spring 2021: Democracy and Truth: An Introduction to Political Epistemology (graduate seminar)
Spring 2021: Computer, Ethics and Society (upper-division undergraduate level course)
Fall 2020: Philosophy of Law (upper-division undergraduate level course)
Fall 2020: Computer, Ethics and Society (upper-division undergraduate level course)
Spring 2020: Science, Technology and Human Values ( (upper-division undergraduate level course)
Spring 2020: Computer, Ethics and Society (upper-division undergraduate level course)
Fall 2019: Science, Technology and Human Values ( (upper-division undergraduate level course)
Fall 2019: Computer, Ethics and Society (upper-division undergraduate level course)
As Main Instructor at the Université de Montréal:
Spring 2018: Philosophy of Law (third-year undergraduate level course).
Spring 2017: Philosophy of Law (third-year undergraduate level course).
As Main Instructor at the Sorbonne (Paris-IV):
Fall 2015 and Spring 2016: Contemporary political theory (year long graduate level course).
Fall 2015: History of moral and political thought (Undergraduate level course).
Fall 2015: Methodology and critical thinking (Undergraduate level course).
As Main Instructor at the Law School of the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris-II):
Fall 2015 and Spring 2016: General education (preparation for the entry exam of the French National School for the Judiciary) (year long graduate level course).
Supervision of students
Directed readings at SJSU:
Brady Frey, “The Ethics of AI: Recent Developments” (Spring, 2023)
John Kettles, ““The Ethics of AI: Recent Developments” (Spring, 2023)
Mike Agostinelli, Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation” (Fall, 2021)
Salvatore Curcio, “Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation” (Fall, 2021)
Brian Verduzco Rayo, “Digital Privacy and Surveillance Capitalism” (Fall, 2020)
Baltazar Lopez, “Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Discrimination” (Spring, 2020)
Senior theses at the Sorbonne :
Anaïs Leveneur, “Justice and digital technologies”
Théophile Robert, “Rousseau’s critique of natural law”
Mariam Bahaffou, “Rousseau’s concept of pain”
Valentin Letondeur, “Plural voting in John Stuart Mill’s philosophy”
Lucie Kervern, “Leo Strauss’s concept of natural right”