Here you will find the guidelines for written work (seminar papers, essays).

Winter semester 2024/25

• Elementary Philosophy: Argumentation, Reflection and Judgement for Teachers (in collaboration with Kerstin Gregor-Gehrmann and Prof. Dr Mark Siebel)
• Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom
• The Rights of Nature
• Hegel, The Philosophy of Right
• Colloquium for final-year dissertations/Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy

Summer Semester 2024

• Introduction to Practical Philosophy
• Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom
• Artificial Intelligence
• Who owns the city?
• Thesis Colloquium/Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy

Winter semester 2023/24

• Elementary Philosophy: Argumentation, Reflection and Judgement for Teachers ( in collaboration with Kerstin Gregor-Gehrmann and Prof. Dr Mark Siebel)
• Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom
• The Rights of Nature
• Thesis Colloquium / Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy

Summer Semester 2023

• Introduction to Practical Philosophy
• Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
• The Philosophy of Society in Karl Marx
• Data Protection, the Data Market, Data Ownership
• Thesis Seminar/Research Seminar

Winter semester 2022/23

• Elementary Philosophy: Argumentation, Reflection and Judgement for Teachers (in collaboration with Sarah Huck, Kerstin Gregor-Gehrmann and Prof. Dr Mark Siebel)
• Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
• Kant’s Philosophy of Law
• Theories of Justice in Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Thesis Colloquium / Research Colloquium

Summer Semester 2022

• Introduction to Practical Philosophy
• Who owns the city?
• Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom
• Philosophy and Sociology
• Thesis Colloquium/Research Colloquium

Winter semester 2021/22

Research semester

Summer semester 2021

• Introduction to Practical Philosophy
• Hegel’s Practical Philosophy (Continued)
• G.W.F. Hegel: The Philosophy of Right
• Who Owns the City?
• Theories of Property
• Thesis Seminar/Research Seminar

Winter semester 2020/21

• Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
• Justice
• Kant’s Philosophy of Law
• Theory and Practice of Property
• Thesis Seminar/Research Seminar

Summer Semester 2020

• Introduction to Practical Philosophy
• Environmental Ethics
• Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom
• Thesis Colloquium/Research Colloquium

Winter semester 2019/20

• Jürgen Habermas, A History of Philosophy Too
• Theories and Practices of Property
• Hegel’s Political Philosophy
• Society, Property and Labour in Karl Marx
• Thesis Seminar/Research Seminar

Summer Semester 2019

• Introduction to Practical Philosophy
• Philosophy of Sustainability
• Hegel’s Social Philosophy
• Are ‘joy’ and ‘meaning’ categories in the social sciences? (in collaboration with Hartmut Rosa)
• Practical Philosophy Research Colloquium

Winter semester 2018/19

• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Karl Marx
• Hegel’s Critique of Morality
• Data Protection, Data Ownership, Data Capitalism
• Research Questions in Practical Philosophy

Summer Semester 2018

• Introduction to Practical Philosophy
• Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book III ‘On Morals’
• Sustainability and Ownership of Natural Resources
• Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom
• Colloquium for PhD students and final-year theses: Research topics in contemporary philosophy

Freiburg i. Brsg

• WiSe 2001/02 PS Ethics with Kierkegaard

• Summer 2002 PS Hegel, Phenomenology of the Spirit

• Summer 2002 HS Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

• WiSe 2002/03 Reading course Heidegger, Being and Time

• WiSe 2002/03 PS Horkheimer/Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment

• Summer semester 2003 Reading course Heidegger, Being and Time (continued)

Basel

• WiSe 2003/04 S Heidegger, The Origin of the Work of Art

• SoSe 2004 Introductory course Theoretical Philosophy (together with Dr S. Knell)

• WiSe 2004/05 S Self-deception as a philosophical problem

• WiSe 2005/06 S Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

• SoSe 2006 S Theories of Critique (together with Prof. Dr Emil Angehrn)

• WiSe 2006/07 S Hegel, The Phenomenology of the Spirit

• FS 2007 Colloquium, Theories of Truth (with Prof. Dr S. Rödl)

• HS 2007 PS Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

• FS 2008 S Value Theories

• HS 2008 S John McDowell, Mind and World

• FS 2009 S Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

• HS 2009 V Theories of truth

Freiburg i. Brsg

• WiSe 2009/10 V Metaethics

• WiSe 2009/10 PS Plato, Theaetetus

• WiSe 2009/10 S Classics of the Philosophy of Language

• WiSe 2009/10 OS Schelling and Heidegger

Basel

• FS 2010 V Introductory course Theoretical Philosophy

• FS 2010 Reading course for the introductory course (Aristotle, Hegel, Wittgenstein)

• FS 2010 S Plato, Sophistes

• FS 2010 PS Rationality (Anscombe, Davidson, McDowell)

Jena

• WiSe 2010/11 V Truth in Ethics

• WiSe 2010/11 PS David Miller, Principles of Social Justice

• WiSe 2010/11 HS Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

• WiSe 2010/11 HS Democratic Theory

• Summer Semester 2011 V Political Philosophy

• SoSe 2011 PS Political Philosophy

• SoSe 2011 HS Human Rights

• SoSe 2011 HS On hope

• SoSe 2011 OS New publications in ethics

• WiSe 2011/12 V Ethics

• WiSe 2011/12 PS Ethics (Aristotle, Kant)

• WiSe 2011/12 HS Fichte's and Hegel's Theories of Recognition

• WiSe 2011/12 HS Deliberative Democracy

• WiSe 2011/12 OS New publications in political philosophy

• Summer semester 2012 V Political Philosophy

• Summer semester 2012 PS Political Philosophy (Hobbes, Rousseau, Habermas, Rawls)

• SoSe 2012 HS Heidegger's phenomenological ethics

• SoSe 2012 HS Habermas' writings on democracy

• SoSe 2012 OS New publications in ethics

• WiSe 2012/13 V Ethics

• WiSe 2012/13 PS Ethics (Aristotle, Kant)

• WiSe 2012/13 HS Theories of Property

• WiSe 2012/13 HS Happiness (together with Prof. Dr Hartmut Rosa)

• WiSe 2012/13 OS New publications in political philosophy

• Summer semester 2013 V Political Philosophy

• SoSe 2013 HS Property in German Idealism (Kant, Fichte, Hegel)

• Summer semester 2013 HS Adorno, Negative Dialectics

• SoSe 2013 HS Happiness in Literature and Philosophy (together with Prof Kindt)

• Summer semester 2013 OS Current debates in democratic theory

Frankfurt on the Main

• WiSe 2013/14 V Property

• WiSe 2013/14 HS Hegel, Fundamentals of the Philosophy of Law

• WiSe 2013/14 Colloquium Social Philosophy

Giessen

• Summer semester 2014 S Introduction to Practical Philosophy (Aristotle, Kant)

• Summer semester 2014 S Main works of critical theory

• SoSe 2014 Hegel, Fundamentals of the Philosophy of Right

• SoSe 2014 Coll Practical Philosophy (Human Rights)

• winter semester 2014/15 V Introduction to Practical Philosophy

• WiSe 2014/15 S Classics of democratic theory

• WiSe 2014/15 S Hegel and Marx

• WiSe 2014/15 Coll Practical Philosophy (Philosophy of Law)

• Summer semester 2015 S Introduction to normative ethics

• Summer semester 2015 S Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

• Summer semester 2015 Writing course: How to write philosophical texts? (Freedom)

• Summer semester 2015 S What is the good life?

• WiSe 2015/16 V Introduction to Practical Philosophy

• WiSe 2015/16 S Philosophy and Economics

• WiSe 2015/16 S Ethics of the good life

• WiSe 2015/16 S Ethical theories of death

Erfurt

• Summer semester 2016 S Enhancement (together with Prof Alexander Thumfart)

Jena

• WiSe 2016/17 V Introduction to ethics

• WiSe 2016/17 S Property (together with Prof Hartmut Rosa)