Teaching at Yale
In past years I have taught the undergraduate lecture courses "Introduction to Political Philosophy”. “How Do We Choose, and Choose Well”, and "Justice in Western Thought."
I have taught my undergraduate seminars "Beyond Representative Government" and "Freedom," as well as the Spring semester sequence of Directed Studies, which covers big books from Machiavelli's Prince to Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism.
I have also taught graduate level seminars, including "Political Epistemology," "Deliberative Democracy and Beyond," "Political Authority," "Introduction to Political Theory" and "Philosophy of Science for the Study of Politics."
In the future I plan on developing an interactive lecture course simply titled "Democracy."
Syllabi
Deliberative Democracy & Beyond
This course examines the democratic theory paradigm known as “deliberative democracy” with a special focus within it on the connection between the idea of democracy and the ideal and practice of deliberation.
Introduction to Political Philosophy
This course is intended as a (non-exhaustive) introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political tradition.
Political Epistemology
This course aims to explore the new and burgeoning field of “political epistemology,” for which the concepts of knowledge and truth—both factual and moral—are central to politics.