Philosophy with Woodley B.

My name is Woodley and I am a 25 year old male from New York, NYC. At age 4 I told my mother that I was “born to talk” and I have been carried by the forever talkative philosophical spirit within, ever since. I am otherwise an avid reader of all things academic and philosophic. I love kids, I love asking questions, as well practicing martial arts, playing drums in a band, engaging in pick-up stype ultimate frisbee game, traveling, pizza, meditation, and, scuba diving. The history of my academic-philosophical-work extends back to my senior year of high school, during which I was afforded the opportunity to participate in two philosophy seminars: one on normative ethics, and the other on existentialism. These two courses confirmed some of what I had suspected all my life but had not yet found the words to express — that we are not at all sure what we know or how we know it; that types of truth are potentially distinguishable; that meaning might be contingent; that experience does not directly dictate a finite reality; that the cause of something is often indeterminate; and that how best to live is not so clear. Once I could begin to express these ideas, the flood gate had been opened, and I knew that I had found my calling. In college I focused on philosophy, in particular, ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, existentialism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion. And in addition to studying and writing I co-ran Hampshire’s philosophy club. I also became the Teaching Assistant for my professors Introduction To Philosophy seminar. I wrote a thesis during my senior year on the Scottish philosopher David Hume’s empirical account of personal identity — and his related confession(s). In the two years since my graduation from Hampshire, I have continued to write about and ponder consciousness. Over the course of the past year, I have been teaching a philosophy course at two middle schools in Brooklyn through a New York City-funded after school program called “Play Study Win”. Teaching this interesting age group, has caused me to realize that I want to become a philosophy professor one day. And now I tutor. If you like good conversation; If you have ever been interested in any of the philosophical topics I mentioned; or if you're taking a philosophy class and would like help with your reading or writing assignments, then I am the tutor for you. I can help with any level.