Félix-Antoine Gélineau

Teaching is a deeply valuable and rewarding aspect of my academic career and has profoundly influenced who I am as a philosopher. During my time at MIT, I have given teaching pride of place by actively pursuing every available teaching development opportunity. This includes completing MIT’s Teaching + Learning Lab (TLL)’s Graduate Teaching Certificate, a Research Mentoring Certificate, and serving as the department’s graduate teaching development coordinator (the “MetaTA”). I have also been a panelist for TLL-sponsored events, sharing my passion for pedagogy with peers across the Institute.

In recognition of my dedication to teaching, I was selected as one of seventeen graduate students across MIT to be a Teaching Development Fellow for 2023-2024. As part of the Fellowship, I participated in a biweekly seminar on the scholarship of teaching and learning, led by directors from the Teaching + Learning Lab, and spearheaded initiatives such as organizing workshops and creating resources to foster teaching development in my department.

Teaching Experience

I am currently in charge of running MIT Philosophy’s MOOCs

• Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2024)
• Minds and Machines (Fall 2024)
• Paradox and Infinity (Spring 2025)
• Moral Problems and the Good Life (Spring 2025)
• Problems of Philosophy (Summer 2025)

As teaching assistant at MIT

1. Moral Problems and the Good Life (Spring 2023)
   Instructor: Prof. Sam Berstler
2. Problems of Philosophy (Fall 2022)
   Instructor: Prof. Kevin Dorst
3. Minds and Machines (Spring 2022)
   Instructor: Prof. E.J. Green
4. Problems of Philosophy (Fall 2021)
   Instructor: Prof. Caspar Hare
5. Ethics (Spring 2021)
   Instructor: Prof. Tamar Schapiro
6. Justice (Fall 2020)
   Instructor: Prof. Bernardo Zacka

As teaching assistant at Université de Montréal

• Logic I (Fall 2017)
  Instructor: Prof. Jean-Pierre Marquis
• Theory of Knowledge (Fall 2018)
  Instructor: Prof. Maxime Doyon
• Theory of Knowledge (Fall 2017)
  Instructor: Prof. Aude Bandini

Guest lectures

• “Bernard Williams on Utilitarianism and Agency,” for Moral Problems and the Good Life (Spring 2023)
• “Skepticism, Closure and Contextualism,” for Problems of Philosophy (Fall 2022) (co-taught with Yonathan Fiat)
• “Teleosemantics,” for Minds and Machines (Spring 2022)