Penn Honors Grad | Philosophy, Logic, Writing, Social Sciences

Paul C.

I'm Paul. I tutor philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and writing—and I take all four seriously as living disciplines with real stakes for how you think, argue, and move through the world.
I graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with Honors Distinction in Anthropology. My training spans ethics, bioethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, formal logic, and formal semantics. My particular expertise is in medical anthropology—how social structures and cultural practices shape health, illness, and the body. I completed a graduate bioethics seminar at Temple's medical school, I'm finishing a 30,000+ word work of formal philosophical argumentation, and my senior thesis is a published work of original research. I bring over five years of research experience from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Temple University Hospital, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Here's what I think matters most: philosophy requires—but rarely teaches explicitly—the capacity to engage an argument on its own terms before evaluating it. Students often approach a thinker as someone to agree or disagree with, when good philosophy asks for something harder: understanding a position from the inside first, then engaging it critically, not adversarially. That's a learnable skill, and it's what a tutor can model one conversation at a time. I start by listening—where you are, what you grasp, what's generating confusion—and we build from there. I especially enjoy supporting the research stage of writing: finding and evaluating sources, developing a thesis, constructing an argument from the ground up. But I love the craft side too—structure, clarity, voice, revision. I work happily with students at every level, and I'm at my best when your fresh perspective reveals something a standard reading had obscured. Those are among the most alive moments I know.
Reach out—I'd love to hear what you're working on.