Teaching

Undergraduate-level courses taught as Instructor of Record at the University of Chicago

1) Heidegger's Critique of German Idealism (Spring 2026; link to syllabus and weekly reading guides)

Course description: Martin Heidegger claimed that the entire western philosophical tradition reached its ‘culmination’ (Vollendung) in the philosophy of German Idealism. In this course we will take this diagnosis seriously, work to understand its presuppositions and implications, and attempt to assess its cogency. This will involve an intensive study of Heidegger’s interpretations of Kantian and Hegelian metaphysics. We will read Heidegger’s most significant works on Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy from the 1920s through the 1960s, as well as his central writings on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Science of Logic. We will also take into account some secondary literature by Sebastian Gardner, Dieter Henrich, Robert Pippin and others. A coda to the course may consider the connection between freedom and system in German Idealism via Heidegger’s major interpretation of F.W.J. Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom.

Other courses taught as Course Assistant at the University of Chicago

2) Morality and Psychology in the Films of Ingmar Bergman (with Robert B. Pippin)

3) Nietzsche: Culture, Critique, Self-Transcendence (with David E. Wellbery) 

4) Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (with T.A. Pendlebury)
Guest Lecture: "The Paralogisms of Pure Reason"
(recording available on request)

5) What is Hegelianism? (with Robert B. Pippin)

6) Hegel's Philosophy of Right (with Matthias Haase)

7) Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (with T.A. Pendlebury)