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Teaching this Fall 2024: Critical thinking and the intellectual virtues. (Phil: 106)

This course is co-taught with Zenon and Daniel, and is intended to cultivate an appreciation of the integral relationship between thinking and being, and a capacity to produce in writing a dialectical relationship between an idea and it's life. My version introduces students to some of the philosophy and AI classics as I prepare to teach on this subject in the Spring of 2025. However, the general capacity to parsimoniously convey another being's thought (in summary), to represent the thought (in diagram), and to respond to the thought are the primary skills cultivated in this class. I allow students to develop these skills in the subject matter that most interest them, making it good for all stages of accreditation.

My general areas of interest are in philosophy of mind, logic, cognitive science, emotion and world philosophy. The area of interest for my dissertation (current work), is on is the theory of enaction (in cognitive science); some of the theories sub-currents I'm investigating are Buddhist philosophy, meditative cultivation, non-hierarchical organizational structures, cybernetics, affective sciences, dynamic systems theory and symbiosis (contemporary biology).

-September. 2024