My office is Stevenson 341. My email is desanso@ilstu.edu. When emailing about a course, please include your full name in the body of your email and the course number (e.g., “112”) in the subject line.

For Fall 2023, I am teaching:

• Language, Logic, and Mathematics (PHI 112)
• Philosophy in the Islamic World (PHI 258)

I regularly teach courses in introductory courses on logic, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and medieval philosophy. I occasionally teach advanced seminars on a range of topics. Recent seminars have covered the metaphysics of ordinary objects, the philosophy of games, and the nature of truth.

Handouts

I have occasionally been invited by the ISU Philosophical Society (our undergraduate philosophy club) to lead discussions on various topics. Here are the handouts from those discussions:

• Holes (Dec 3, 2013)
• Paradoxes (Apr 15, 2014)
• The Rule Following Paradox (Dec 3, 2014)
• Material Composition (Mar 25, 2015)
• Music (Mar 28, 2016)
• Shadows (Nov 8, 2016)