I have experience of teaching more than fifty university courses including lectures on philosophy of science and epistemology and seminars on philosophy of economics, political philosophy, philosophy of technology, ethics, and history of philosophy. In these courses, I use a mix of traditional and didactically innovative methods. Some of these courses are aimed at LAS and BSc/MSc students. Here is an almost complete list of these courses (with links to syllabi):
(a) University of Konstanz, Philosophy Department (language of instruction: German)
“Philosophy of Science” (4h/week, lecture) – Summer 2025
“Egalitarianism” (2h/week, graduate seminar, language of instruction: English) – Summer 2025
“Aristotle and the four types of causality” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2025
Research colloquium (2h/week), with Jacob Rosenthal – Summer 2025
“Kant, Prolegomena” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2022/23
“Capability approach” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2022/23
“Philosophy of technology” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar, language of instruction: English), with Maud van Lier – Winter 2022/23
“Philosophy of science” (4h/week, lecture) – Summer 2022
Research colloquium (2h/week) – Summer 2022
“Metaphysics of science” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Summer 2022
“Well-being” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2022
(b) University College Freiburg (language of instruction: English)
“Theory of Knowledge” (2h/week, lecture) – Winter 2019/20
“The philosophy of Kant” (4h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Winter 2019/20
“Perspectives on Science” (2h/week, lecture) – Summer 2019
“Models across disciplines” (4h/week, undergraduate seminar), with Simon Büchner – Summer 2019
“International Trade” (4h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2019
“Theory of Knowledge” (2h/week, lecture) – Winter 2018/19
“History of world philosophy” (4h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Winter 2018/19
“Economic crises - history, causes, and consequences” (4h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Winter 2018/19
(c) University of Freiburg, Philosophy Department (language of instruction: German)
“Heidegger on authenticity” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Summer 2019
(d) University of Konstanz, Philosophy Department (language of instruction: German)
“Philosophy of science” (4h/week, lecture) – Summer 2018
“Philosophy of social science” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Summer 2018
Research colloquium (2h/week), with Martin Rechenauer – Summer 2018
“Heidegger, Being and Time” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2017/18
“Values in science” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2017/18
“Kant’s political philosophy” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2017/18
“Philosophy of complex systems” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Summer 2017
“Philosophy of technology” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2017
“Decision theory” (2h/week, lecture plus tutorial) – Winter 2015/16
“Philosophy of economics” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2015/16
“Scientific realism” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2015
“Induction and confirmation” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Summer 2015
“Laws of nature” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Winter 2014/15
“Subjectivity and objectivity in economics” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2014/15
“Scientific explanation” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2014
“Scientific models” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Summer 2014
“Kant’s philosophy of causality” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2013/14
“Hume and his impact” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Winter 2013/14
(e) University of Heidelberg, Philosophy Department (language of instruction: German)
“Causality II” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Summer 2011
“Kant, Critique of Practical Reason” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2011
“Causality I” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2010/11
“Kant, Prolegomena” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Winter 2010/11
“Popper, Logic of Scientific Discovery” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2010
“Marx, Capital” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2009/10
“American pragmatism” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2009
“Theories of justice” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2009
(f) University of Heidelberg, Economics Department (language of instruction: German)
“History of economic thought II” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Summer 2011
“History of economic thought I” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Winter 2010/11
“Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy” (2h/week, graduate seminar) – Summer 2010
“Philosophy of economics” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Winter 2009/10
“Liberalism and communitarianism” (2h/week, undergraduate seminar) – Summer 2009