Teaching Philosophy
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Teaching
I have taught an introductory ethics course at McGill and co-taught courses in philosophy of language at Université de Montréal. I have also taught art courses at the university level (Concordia and National Theatre School) and privately.
I am also intrigued by the representation of complex concepts (say I-language, E-language, or volume integrals in three-dimensional calculus) by visual means. To describe the way his brain worked, Richard Feynman offered the following humorous description : “as [the mathematicians] are telling me the conditions of the theorem, I construct something that fits all the conditions. You know, you have a set.... one ball... disjoint... two balls. Then the balls turn colours, grows hairs... Finally, they state the theorem... which is some dumb thing about the ball, which isn’t true for my hairy green ball thing, so I say, False!”
While imagery may not be for every student, it may be helpful for some.
