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teaching

Students love ideas.

Many just don't know it yet. 

Like Socrates, I see my role as a teacher as that of a midwife: I want to help my students give birth to their own ideas and work hard to see the world more clearly. Discussing ideas with students is almost always the highlight of my work day. On the best days, I learn as much as they do. In 2012, I was honored to receive the New Faculty Teaching Award at Fort Lewis College.

Interested in teaching Beyond Fake News?  Here's a sample syllabus for a course on News and Knowing.

"Justin McBrayer could teach me anything, and I would love the s**t out of it,"

classES Taught

PHILOSOPHY LOWER-DIVISION

Introduction to Philosophy (recent syllabus)

Introduction to Ethics

Introductory Bioethics 

Logic (recent syllabus)

Business Ethics 

History of Ancient Western Philosophy 

PHILOSOPHY UPPER-DIVISION

Epistemology 

Metaphysics (recent syllabus)

Philosophy of Religion

Science & Religion 

Metaethics

History of Modern Philosophy (recent syllabus)

Advanced Logic (recent syllabus)

Undermining Explanations

Modality & Ultimate Explanation

HONORS

Utopia 

The Thought of C.S. Lewis

GRADUATE -LEVEL

Evolutionary Ethics

The Origin & Rationality of Religion

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Global Christianity

Islam & the West 

Theories of the Atonement

STUDY ABROAD

Philosophy in Italy 

French Philosophy 

Greek Philosophy

Environmental Ethics in Costa Rica

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