Teaching Experience
Pitzer College, Assistant Professor
- “Islamic Philosophy,” Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013
- “God and Philosophy, Reason in Conflict,” Fall 2011 (with Yuval Avnur), Spring 2015
- “Islam vs. Islam,” Fall 2010, Fall 2014
- “Philosophy of Religion,” Spring 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015
- “Introduction to Philosophy,” Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2013
- “History of Ethics,” Spring 2009
- “Spinoza and Leibniz on Reality,” Spring 2011
- “Philosophical Questions” (A First-year Seminar), Fall 2012, Fall 2015
Claremont Graduate University, School of Religion
- “Ghazali: Philosophy and Theology,” Fall 2011
Stanford University, Introduction to the Humanities
- “Humanistic Perspectives on Science,” Winter and Spring 2009
- “Fate of Reason,” Winter and Spring 2008
UCLA, Philosophy Department
- “Topics in Islamic Philosophy,” Spring 2004, 2007
PhD Advising
I have supervised two successful PhD dissertations at Claremont Graduate University, School of Religion: Sana Tayyen “ Ghazali, Aquinas, and Lita’arafu: The Interaction between Reason and Revelation for Interreligious Understanding,” 2014.
Ozgur Koca “Said Nursi’s Synthesis of Ashʿarite Occasionalism and Ibn ‘Arabī’s Metaphysical Cosmology: “Diagonal Occasionalism,” Modern Science, and Free Will,” 2014.
Recent Courses
- Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL7)
- History of Ethics (PHIL31)
- Philosophy of Religion (PHIL52)
- Islamic Philosophy (PHIL84)
- God and Philosophy (PHIL96)
- Islam vs. Islam (PHIL155)
- Spinoza and Leibniz on Reality (PHIL186S)