Winter semester 2024/25

• Descartes: Meditations
• Schelling: On the Method of Academic Study
• Artificial Intelligence in the 21st Century

Summer Semester 2024

• Kant’s Refutation of Idealism
• Where must science begin?
• Ontology According to Kant

Winter semester 2023/24

• Climate Ethics
• Artificial Intelligence
• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
• A Contemporary Introduction to Metaphysics

Summer semester 2023

• Schopenhauer: On the Foundations of Morality
• Robot Ethics
• Homo creator

Winter semester 2022/23

• Schopenhauer: On the Foundations of Morality
• On the Concept of Philosophy
• Reality and the Virtual
• Kapp: Outlines of a Philosophy of Technology

Summer Semester 2022

• Nature Ethics
• The social construction of what?
• Philosophy of Science

Winter semester 2021/22

• Science and Freedom

Summer semester 2021

• Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (continued)
• What is Nature? Philosophy of Nature 2.0

Winter semester 2020/21

• Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
• Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

Summer semester 2020

• Robot Ethics
• Climate Ethics
• Proofs of God’s Existence

Winter semester 2019/20

• Matter
• Artificial Intelligence

Summer semester 2019

• Ethics of Nature
• The Concept of Force
• Leibniz’s doctrine of monads

Winter semester 2018/19

• Introduction to Classical German Philosophy
• Mathematics and Philosophy

Summer semester 2018

• Idea and Dialectic in Hegel
• Idealism Revisited. International Course at IUC Dubrovnik
• Current Research on Hegel
• Thomas Nagel: Mind and Cosmos

Winter semester 2017/18

• Plato: Timaeus
• Idea and Dialectic in Kant and Hegel

Summer semester 2017

• Hegel’s Theory of the Concept
• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nature
• Nature and Human Nature

Winter semester 2016/17

• Aims and Approaches in Contemporary Philosophy of Nature
• Where must science begin?
• Nature, Culture and Concepts of ‘Bildung’
• Research Colloquium

Summer Semester 2016

• Nature Ethics
• Philosophy of Black Holes
• Introductory Course to Classical German Philosophy
• Research Colloquium

Winter semester 2015/16

• Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
• Nature, Culture and ‘Bildung’
• How the World Escaped Once Again: Natural Philosophy and Science Fiction
• Research Colloquium

Summer Semester 2015

• John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
• Introductory Course to Classical German Philosophy
• Comte: Speech on the Spirit of Positivism
• Research Colloquium

Winter semester 2014/15

• John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
• Introduction to Environmental Ethics
• Dilthey: The Nature of Philosophy
• Copernicus: The New Worldview
• Research Colloquium

Summer Semester 2014

• Current Research on Hegel
• David Friedrich Strauss

Winter semester 2013/14

• Introduction to the Philosophy of Nature
• Hegel’s Introduction to the History of Philosophy
• Naturalism

Summer semester 2013

• Hegel and the Revolution(s) in Philosophy

Winter semester 2012/13

• Recent Concepts in the Philosophy of Nature

Summer semester 2012

• Environmental Ethics II
• Schopenhauer: On the Foundations of Morality

Winter semester 2011/12

• Environmental Ethics
• Schelling: Lecture on the Method of Academic Study
• Objectivity