Winter semester 2024/25

• From the "Enquiry into the Human Mind" (Hume) to the "Critique of Pure Reason" (Kant)
• The Copernican Revolution (Kant)
• Scientific objectivity. Epistemological reflections on the subject of knowledge

Summer term 2024

• On the difference between animal welfare and animal rights

Winter semester 2023/24

• Adorno: Questions of dialectics

Summer term 2023

• Liberal eugenics? Standardisation techniques from NIPT to euthanasia

Winter semester 2022/23

• On the difference between animal welfare and animal rights

Summer semester 2022

• The Pre-Socratics (continued)

Winter semester 2021/22

• The Pre-Socratics

Summer term 2021

• Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (continued)
• The Antinomies of Pure Reason (together with Nils Baratella)

Winter term 2020/21

• Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
• What are laws of nature?
• Organ donation

Summer term 2020

• Adorno: Aspects of the new right-wing radicalism

Winter semester 2019/20

• Life - contradictions, antinomies and dialectics of a concept
• Kant's teleological judgement - history of reception and topicality of a philosophical classic

Summer semester 2019

• Self-determined death: dynamics and dangers of the debate on active euthanasia

Winter semester 2018/19

• Reality and ideality of space and time
• Evolutionary epistemology
• Positivism Controversy III

Summer semester 2018

• What is enlightenment? Kant and Foucault on the concept and activity of enlightenment
• "Reclaiming the freedom of thought". Fichte's political texts on the French Revolution
• What is critique? From Kant's critique of knowledge to Foucault's critique as a political activity

Winter semester 2017/18

• Does brain research disprove free will?
• The positivism controversy II
• Reality and objectivity

Summer term 2017

• The categorical imperative
• What is a person?
• Morality as criticism

Winter semester 2016/17

• The positivism controversy

Summer term 2016

• The categorical imperative
• Prenatal diagnostics
• Peter Singer's utilitarianism - hostility towards the disabled and animal ethics
• Critique of judgement - overview seminar (together with Dr Maxi Berger)

Winter semester 2015/16

• Aristotle: On the soul
• What is a law of nature?
• Identity and other problems science-fictional reflections on epistemology
• Writing workshop (together with Dr Maxi Berger)

Summer term 2015

• Aristotle, rerum natura
• organ donation
• Architectonics of pure reason
• Writing workshop (together with Dr Maxi Berger)

Winter term 2014/15

• Being and nothingness
• Euthanasia
• Charles Darwin and Adam Smith - Competition as an organising principle in the market and nature
• Writing workshop (together with Dr Maxi Berger)

Summer term 2014

• Critique of practical reason
• Euthanasia

Winter term 2013/14

• Gender relations in (socio-) biology
• On the relationship between natural science and metaphysics
• The theorem of sufficient reason

Summer term 2013

• The limits of knowledge in brain research
• On the concept of life

Winter term 2012/13

• Teleology - human purposes and the purposefulness of nature
• Space, time and reality
• The prerequisite(s) of logic

Summer term 2012

• Prenatal human dignity?
• Organ donation - gift or commodity?
• Perfected human being