This fall (2013), I will be teaching two courses:

Phil 3720: Environmental Ethics

In this course, we investigate the extent and limits of our moral responsibility for the well-being of both non-human animals, living entities and eco-systems.  This semester we wil be placing particular attention on the relationship between environmentalism and social justice, examining who is effected most adversely by environmental degradation.

Phil 1000C: The Human Person

This course serves as the introductory course to philosophy at St. John's University.  It is a core course and every student is required to take it.  The guiding question of the course is the meaning of the human being.  This question is explored through some of the major thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. For this course, there is a distinctive Academic Service Learning component wherein we examine critically the relationship between education and the realization of oneself as a human being.