Summer Semester 2024

• Ernst Cassirer: The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (continued)

Winter semester 2023/24

• Ernst Cassirer: The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

Summer Semester 2023

• Aristotle: De anima ( continued)
• Kant: Critique of Pure Reason

Winter semester 2022/23

• Aristotle: De anima
• Kant: Critique of Pure Reason

Summer semester 2022

• Hannah Arendt: Vita activa (continued)
• Humans and Animals: Fundamental Positions and Current Issues in Animal Ethics

Winter semester 2021/22

• Hannah Arendt: Vita activa

Summer Semester 2021

• Animal Ethics and Animal Philosophy: Foundations, Contexts and Perspectives

Winter semester 2020/21

• Objectivity and Truth

Summer semester 2020

• Fashion, the Body and Consumption

Winter semester 2019/20

• Aristotle: On the Soul

Summer Semester 2019

• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Existence of Heinrich Barth (1890–1965)

Winter semester 2018/19

• Reason – a toothless tiger?

Summer semester 2018

• An Animal History of Philosophy – from Plato’s Chariot of the Soul to Animal Ethics and Human-Animal Studies

Winter semester 2017/18

• Cognition, Knowledge, Understanding

Summer Semester 2017

• The Dream of the Wilderness: On Naturalistic Dead Ends, Cultural Inventions and Environmental Ethical Challenges

Winter semester 2016/17

• The Path to Modernity – René Descartes

Summer Semester 2016

• Animal Ethics: History, Positions, Perspectives

Winter semester 2015/16

• On Traps of Consciousness and Pipe Dreams – Body and Soul at the Centre of Controversial Approaches in Natural Science, Philosophy and Theology

Summer Semester 2015

• The Individual and the Community

Winter semester 2014/15

• What is truth? An introduction to the discussion of the concept of truth (from Socrates to Hannah Arendt)