Winter semester 2024/25

• From ‘An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding’ (Hume) to ‘Critique of Pure Reason’ (Kant)
• The Copernican Revolution (Kant)
• Scientific objectivity. Epistemological reflections on the subject of knowledge

Summer Semester 2024

• On the distinction between animal welfare and animal rights

Winter semester 2023/24

• Adorno: Questions of Dialectics

Summer semester 2023

• Liberal eugenics? Standardisation techniques from NIPT to euthanasia

Winter semester 2022/23

• On the Distinction between Animal Welfare and Animal Rights

Summer semester 2022

• The Pre-Socratics (continued)

Winter semester 2021/22

• The Pre-Socratics

Summer semester 2021

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

Winter semester 2020/21

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

Summer semester 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 – The History of Reception and Contemporary Relevance of a Philosophical Classic

Summer Semester 2019

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

Winter semester 2018/19

• The Reality and Ideality of Space and Time
• Evolutionary Epistemology
• The Positivism Controversy III

Summer semester 2018

• What is the Enlightenment? Kant and Foucault on the Concept and Activity of the Enlightenment
• ‘Reclaiming Freedom of Thought’. Fichte’s Political Texts on the French Revolution
• What is Critique? From Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason to Foucault’s Critique as Political Action

Winter semester 2017/18

• Does brain research disprove free will?
• The Positivism Controversy II
• Reality and Objectivity

Summer semester 2017

• The Categorical Imperative
• What is a person?
• Morality as Critique

Winter semester 2016/17

• The Positivism Controversy

Summer term 2016

• The Categorical Imperative
• Prenatal Diagnostics
• Peter Singer’s Utilitarianism – Ableism 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-Fiction Reflections on Epistemology
• Writing workshop (in collaboration with Dr Maxi Berger)

Summer semester 2015

• Aristotle, On the Nature of Things
• Organ donation
• The Architecture of Pure Reason
• Writing workshop (in collaboration with Dr Maxi Berger)

Winter semester 2014/15

• Being and Nothingness
• Euthanasia
• Charles Darwin and Adam Smith – Competition as a principle of order in the market and in nature
• Writing workshop (in collaboration with Dr Maxi Berger)

Summer semester 2014

• Critique of Practical Reason
• Euthanasia

Winter semester 2013/14

• Gender Relations in (Socio-)Biology
• On the Relationship between Natural Science and Metaphysics
• The Principle of Sufficient Reason

Summer semester 2013

• The Limits of Knowledge in Brain Research
• On the Concept of Life

Winter semester 2012/13

• Teleology – on human purposes and the teleological nature of the natural world
• Space, Time and Reality
• The Premise(s) of Logic

Summer semester 2012

• Prenatal Human Dignity?
• Organ donation – a gift or a commodity?
• The Perfected Human Being