In the Fall of 2020, I co-designed and co-taught PHI 372: Latin American Philosophy with Hendrik Lorenz under the Collaborative Teaching Initiative of the Office of the Dean of the College at Princeton University. Read more about this course below.
In the Spring of 2019, I was Assistant in Instruction for PHI 201: Introductory Logic, led by Hans Halvorson. In the Fall of 2018, I was Assistant in Instruction for PHI 338: Philosophical Analysis from 1900 to 1950, led by Tom Kelly.
PHI 372: Latin American Philosophy
The course deals with philosophy as practiced in Latin America from the conquest until the contemporary period. Unifying topics are race, identity, and the relationship between European influences and the specific circumstances of Latin America. We will explore these topics by examining the use of Aristotelian ideas in debates about the appropriate treatment of the indigenous populations of the Americas; by investigating ways in which Latin American thinkers employed ideas of the French enlightenment, of Comte’s positivism and Marxist concepts to articulate programs for political and cultural change; and by studying debates about whether philosophy done by Latin Americans is, or should be, distinctively Latin American, rather than universal.
