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I have taught philosophy courses in Canada, France, and the U.S., both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The philosophical classroom has always been — and I suspect will always be — the place where I feel the most comfortable and have the most fun.

At the University of Ottawa, I teach in both French and English. In AY 2025-2026, I will be teaching an undergraduate seminar in political philosophy (on political freedom), a course on metaethics, and a graduate seminar on democratic theory in the French tradition.

At San José State University, I taught upper-division philosophy courses on Science, Technology, and Human Values; Computers, Ethics, and Society; and Philosophy of Law. In these courses, most of my students were not philosophy majors, and one of my greatest pleasures has been to witness aspiring computer scientists engage with rigorous philosophical thinking for the first time. I also served as the co-advisor for graduate studies in philosophy. In this role, I evaluated all applications to our M.A. program and met individually with M.A. students to ensure they were on track.

My classrooms are typically demographically diverse in terms of race, gender, class, and religious affiliations. A very large number of my students have been first-generation college students, and I can hardly think of a more rewarding way to earn a living than helping them obtain a university diploma.

Below is a list of courses I have taught and of undergraduate students I have supervised.

Courses taught

At San José State University

  • Spring 2025: Undergraduate Seminar on Political Freedom

  • Fall 2024: Graduate Seminar on the Ethics of AI

  • Fall 2024: Philosophy of Law

  • Spring 2023: Undergraduate Seminar on Democratic Theory

  • Fall 2023: Modern Philosophy

  • Spring 2023: Graduate Pro-Seminar

  • Spring 2023: Undergraduate Seminar on Freedom of Expression

  • Spring 2022: Graduate Pro-Seminar

  • Spring 2022: Computer, Ethics and Society

  • Fall 2021: Philosophy of Law

  • Fall 2021: Computer, Ethics and Society

  • Spring 2021: Graduate Seminar on Political Epistemology

  • Spring 2021: Computer, Ethics and Society

  • Fall 2020: Philosophy of Law

  • Fall 2020: Computer, Ethics and Society

  • Spring 2020: Science, Technology, and Human Values

  • Spring 2020: Computer, Ethics and Society

  • Fall 2019: Science, Technology, and Human Values

  • Fall 2019: Computer, Ethics and Society

At the Université de Montréal:

  • Spring 2018: Philosophy of Law

  • Spring 2017: Philosophy of Law

At the Sorbonne (Paris-IV):

  • Fall 2015 and Spring 2016: Contemporary Political Philosophy

  • Fall 2015: History of Political Thought

  • Fall 2015: Methodology and Critical Thinking

At the Law School of the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris-II):

  • Fall 2015 and Spring 2016: General Education (preparation for the entry exam of the French National School for the Judiciary)

Supervision of students

Directed readings at SJSU:

  1. Brady Frey, “The Ethics of AI: Recent Developments” (Spring, 2023)

  2. John Kettles, “The Ethics of AI: Recent Developments” (Spring, 2023)

  3. Mike Agostinelli, Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation” (Fall, 2021)

  4. Salvatore Curcio, “Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation” (Fall, 2021)

  5. Brian Verduzco Rayo, “Digital Privacy and Surveillance Capitalism” (Fall, 2020)

  6. Baltazar Lopez, “Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Discrimination” (Spring, 2020)

Senior theses at the Sorbonne :

  1. Anaïs Leveneur, “Justice and digital technologies”

  2. Théophile Robert, “Rousseau’s critique of natural law”

  3. Mariam Bahaffou, “Rousseau’s concept of pain”

  4. Valentin Letondeur, “Plural voting in John Stuart Mill’s philosophy”

  5. Lucie Kervern, “Leo Strauss’s concept of natural right”