Philosophy, Logic, & Writing with a PhD Student!

Timothy S.

Are you struggling to understand Hegel? Is formal logic perennially recondite? Not sure how put your ideas on paper? I am happy to help! I am a PhD student in philosophy at Villanova University with over five years of teaching and tutoring experience. My goal as a educator is to help students gain competence and confidence in their classes by tailoring my approach to the specific needs of the student. The key to my pedagogy is showing how different concepts are parts of a larger whole. This holistic approach enables my students to better understand what they are struggling with and move past it.

Before starting my PhD, I taught math at The Frederick Gunn School, a small boarding school nestled in the idyllic forests and farms of northwest Connecticut, after completing my M.A. in philosophy from Boston College in 2023 and my B.S. in Philosophy and Mathematics from the University of Oregon in the spring of 2020.

My focus is German and French philosophy, e.g., Husserl, Heidegger, Kant, Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, etc. Beyond my specialization, I have taken courses in, taught, and tutored students on ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, etc.), early modern philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Hobbes, Hume, Leibniz, Spinoza, etc.), late modern philosophy (Kant and others pervious mentioned), continental philosophy, analytic philosophy of language, ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics. Furthermore, I have continued to study, teach, and tutor formal logic throughout my academic career, including propositional logic, predicate logic, natural deduction, and non-classical logic. I have taught writing and composition during my courses and as a writing tutor.