Teaching

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

1) Heidegger's Critique of German Idealism (TBD Spring 2026, syllabus available on request)

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.
Our procedure will be to conduct an intensive study of Heidegger’s interpretations of Kantian and Hegelian metaphysics. We will read in their entirety Heidegger’s major works on Kant’s theoretical philosophy from the 1920s through the 1960s, as well as his central writings on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Science of Logic. In addition to supplementary readings from Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, we may also read excerpts from Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Christian Wolff, and Alexander Baumgarten. It is possible we may also cast occasional side-long glances at the status of metaphysics in thinkers who either decisively influenced Heidegger’s critique of the tradition or were decisively influenced by it (e.g. Nietzsche, Derrida).

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)