Experienced teacher of philosophy with a passion for mathematics, the arts, and the sciences.

Over the past five years, I have hosted numerous group lessons open to a wide audience, both on classical Greek and modern European thought. In addition to this, I work as a private tutor, teaching one-to-one and in small groups on all the major philosophical subjects, covering both analytic and continental approaches. I also teach mathematics, a subject I take to be intimately related to philosophy.

My students are of differing ages and stages of proficiency, so I have plenty of experience teaching at both an elementary and advanced level. I consider myself a friendly, adaptable, and patient teacher, concerned above all else with the all round development of my students' capacity for comprehensive thought.

I have a strong belief in the unification of knowledge and am always striving to incorporate seemingly disparate branches of learning into a broader horizon. One of the most marked divisions that exists today is the separation between the human and natural sciences. The natural sciences are generally thought to be written in nothing other than the language of mathematics, while the human sciences - including philosophy - are said to depart from this, though there is no consensus on methodology. It is no trivial fact that philosophy and mathematics were conceived simultaneously in the ancient world. They were two sides of a single logic, a bond that was taken seriously even in the early modern era. The rift that exists today, though by no means arbitrary, ultimately needs to be overcome. This is a challenge that I wholeheartedly take up in my teaching.

The overall aim of my teaching is to facilitate the development of a rich and nuanced understanding of the subject (whether philosophical or mathematical) by cutting to the fundamentals, this forms the general focus. Philosophy and mathematics have an intrinsic logic, or rather, are indissociable from logic itself, making it possible for the respective branches of each subject to be rendered thoroughly comprehensible when this fact is sufficiently brought to light. In this way students learn to range quite competently over an otherwise bewildering array of material.

To teach philosophy - and to teach mathematics philosophically - is to teach a way of thinking that is genuinely transformative. I strive to convey the subject in a way that allows this dimension to come alive for others. One of the chief consequences of this is that science itself takes on a different character and scope.

Subjects:

• Philosophy [A Level - Master’s]

• Mathematics [KS2 - A Level]

Fees:

• One-to-one tuition: £20 - £30 per hour (depending on material and circumstance).

• Group tuition / course tuition: £15 - £25 (depending on material and circumstance).