My teaching emerges from and informs my research. I have had opportunities to teach a number of courses in my areas of specialty, including courses in bioethics, ethics of neural engineering, ethical theory and ethical reasoning, philosophy of law, and Japanese aesthetics. I have taught students studying for their MA in bioethics at a medical school and first year students in their first semester at a liberal arts college.
My goal is for students to leave my classes with a nuanced understanding of philosophical and ethical issues, including an appreciation of diverse perspectives, an ability to distinguish successful from unsuccessful arguments, and the tools to express their ideas in well-formed, logical arguments. The best mark of my success as an instructor is a successful student - in two years, I have had two students win three major ethics essay awards with their final papers from my classes. I look for opportunities for my students and I encourage them to submit their work to contests and journals as it develops throughout the class.
I have also led ethics roundtables for scientists and students at universities, community colleges, and high schools and have lectured for the UW Upward Bound program, the Bainbridge Public Library, the National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies, the BU Neurophotonics Program, and the Medical University of South Carolina ethics curriculum. In summer 2016, I mentored a local middle school teacher as she conducted research and created a curriculum for teaching neuroethics in her school. I am eager to engage new audiences with ethics - it encourages me to reshape my teaching methods and challenges me to respond to unanticipated questions.
My goal is for students to leave my classes with a nuanced understanding of philosophical and ethical issues, including an appreciation of diverse perspectives, an ability to distinguish successful from unsuccessful arguments, and the tools to express their ideas in well-formed, logical arguments. The best mark of my success as an instructor is a successful student - in two years, I have had two students win three major ethics essay awards with their final papers from my classes. I look for opportunities for my students and I encourage them to submit their work to contests and journals as it develops throughout the class.
I have also led ethics roundtables for scientists and students at universities, community colleges, and high schools and have lectured for the UW Upward Bound program, the Bainbridge Public Library, the National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies, the BU Neurophotonics Program, and the Medical University of South Carolina ethics curriculum. In summer 2016, I mentored a local middle school teacher as she conducted research and created a curriculum for teaching neuroethics in her school. I am eager to engage new audiences with ethics - it encourages me to reshape my teaching methods and challenges me to respond to unanticipated questions.