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Teaching and Mentoring

Graduate Mentoring:

Dissertation advisor to

Nuno Abecasis, “The Self: Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Kant and Sartre,” (in progress).

Stanley Joseph Konoval, “Kant’s Categories and the Cognitive Foundations of Perception,” (in progress)

Jason Cutmore, “Formation and Formlessness: On Building‘s Pertinence and Prospects Today,” (in progress).

Jackson Hoerth, “Kant and the Dual Role of the Imagination: Content, Form, and Judgments of Beauty,” defended December 2021.

Dan P. DalMonte, “The Ontological Reading of Kant’s Theory of Freedom and Contemporary Libertarian Theories of Free Will,” defended September 2020.

Select Preliminary Essay Mentoring

Tom Hanauer (Nordev Prize winner 2014), Stanley Joseph Conoval (Nordev Prize Winner 2019)

Undergraduate Mentoring

Anderson Harris (Temple Diamond Research Scholar), “Kant on Free and Adherent Beauty” (2019)

Luke Zabroske (Temple Merit Scholar), “Kant’s Conception of Negation and the Possibility of Ugliness as a Pure Aesthetic Category” (2017)

Graduate Teaching Sample Syllabi

PH8621 (Graduate Seminar)  “Philosophy of Nature in Kant and German Idealism

PH8621 (Graduate Seminar) “Kant’s Practical Philosophy

PH5279 “Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

PH5233 “Problems in Aesthetics: The Beautiful and the Ugly

——————————————————————————— Quentin Matsys, “Ill-Matched Lovers” (1514)

       

Undergraduate Teaching Sample Syllabi

PH4298 (Senior Seminar) “Mind and World”

PH 3232 “History of Aesthetics: the Sublime

Giorgio de Chirico, “The Enigma of a Day” (1914)

PH2131 Introduction to Aesthetics

Paul Cézanne, “Portrait of Madame Cézanne” (1890) (left)  Roy Lichtenstein, “Portrait of Madame Cézanne” (1962) (right)