C. Diploma Programme Philosophy

§ 3: First Stage of the Degree Programme

§ 3/1: Introductory Phase

• 180068 VO 3 ECTS History of Philosophical Ideas
  Gotz, Tu 16:30-18:00 (16×)
• 180310 VO-L 3 ECTS Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy
  Heinrich, Tu 09:15-10:45 (16×)
• 180330 VO-L 3 ECTS Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy
  Klein, We 08:30-10:00 (15×)
• 180352 VO-L 3 ECTS Introduction to Practical Philosophy
  Rhemann, We 13:00-14:30 (17×)
• 180390 LPS 6 ECTS Reading Course - Basic Writings of Philosophy: David Hume and Immanuel Kant
  Liessmann, Th 14:00-16:00 (13×)
• 180392 LPS 6 ECTS Reading Course - Learning to Philosophize
  Gruver
• 180404 IK 5 ECTS Introduction to Scientific Work in Philosophy
  Gr. 1 Loidolt, Mo 18:00-19:30 (15×)
  Gr. 2 Matz, We 17:00-19:00 (17×)
  Gr. 3 Perko
  Gr. 4 Zehetner, Th 15:00-18:00 (7×)

§ 3/2: Compulsory Courses

§ 3/2/1 History of Philosophy [Old Curriculum 2]

• 010351 VO 4 ECTS Contemporary philosophy
  Langthaler, Mo 18:15-19:45 (16×)
• 180141 VO-L 5 ECTS History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
  Dunshirn, We 16:15-17:45 (13×)
• 180337 VO-L 5 ECTS History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - From Kant to Hegel
  Nagl, Fr 14:00-16:00 (17×)
• 180361 VO-L 5 ECTS History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
  Wimmer, Tu 13:15-14:45 (16×)
• 180371 VO-L 5 ECTS History of Philosophy II (MIddle Ages and Early Modernity) - Major Themes in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Contexts
  Dethloff
• 180414 VO 3 ECTS 20th Century Philosophy - Metaphysics and their Criticism
  Puhl, Mo 15:00-17:00 (15×)
• 180482 VO 3 ECTS The esoteric of philosophy of Heidegger
  Trawny

§ 3/2/2 Metaphysics [Old Curriculum 3]

• 010135 VO 3 ECTS Metaphysics - (§ 3/2/2 and § 4/1/2)
  Langthaler, Th 10:00-12:00 (9×), Fr 10:00-12:00 (11×)
• 180332 VO-L 5 ECTS Logics and metaphysics
  Klein, Mo 11:00-13:00 (15×)
• 180431 LPS 6 ECTS Reading Course - Aristotle: Metaphysics
  Wladika
• 180437 VO-L 5 ECTS An Outline of the System of Philosophy
  Zeidler, Tu 15:00-17:00 (16×)
• 180460 PS 4 ECTS The World as will and power
  Waibel, Th 15:00-17:00 (15×)
• 180483 PS 4 ECTS The Apology of Socrates
  Trawny

§ 3/2/3 Ethics [Old Curriculum 4]

• 180342 VO-L 5 ECTS Theories of ethic
  Pauer-Studer, Mo 12:00-14:00 (16×)
• 180386 PS 4 ECTS Ethics
  Kampits
• 180415 PS 4 ECTS [ fr ] The moral reflection in the french philosophy
  Purdea, Th 10:00-12:00 (15×)
• 180461 PS 4 ECTS Ethics without ultimate reason?
  Weiberg, Th 14:00-16:00 (13×)
• 180508 PS 4 ECTS Introduction to ethic
  Huth

§ 3/2/4 Epistemology [Old Curriculum 6]

• 180165 VO 3 ECTS Mind, brain, behavior - An interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
  Giampieri-Deutsch, Tu 11.03. 13:15-14:45
• 180362 PS 4 ECTS Size does matter - Close reading
  Pias, We 13:00-14:30 (16×)
• 180430 VO 3 ECTS Descartes
  Wladika
• 180433 VO 3 ECTS Theory of Science
  Zeidler, Mo 18:30-20:00 (15×)
• 180434 PS 4 ECTS History of Epistemology - Locke, Berkeley, Hume
  Zeidler, We 17:00-19:00 (14×)
• 180437 VO-L 5 ECTS An Outline of the System of Philosophy
  Zeidler, Tu 15:00-17:00 (16×)
• 180448 SE 5 ECTS Transcendentalphilosophy - Basic approaches and problems
  Grimmlinger, Tu 18:00-20:00 (16×)
• 180457 PS 4 ECTS Introduction to Media Theory
  Vehlken, Mo 10:00-12:00 (15×)

§ 3/2/5 Logics [Old Curriculum 7]

• 180350 VO-GKL 3 ECTS Introduction to Logic
  Heinrich, Tu 11:00-13:00 (16×)
• 180369 UE-GKL 4 ECTS Exercise in Logic
  Benesch, Mo 13:00-15:00 (14×)
• 180370 UE-GKL 4 ECTS Logic exercises and classic texts
  Damböck, Th 15:00-17:00 (15×)
• 180409 UE-GKL 4 ECTS Exercise in Logic
  Muhr, Mo 17:00-19:00 (16×)

§ 3/2/6 Linguistic Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180142 VO 3 ECTS Introduction to Philosophy of language
  Flatscher, Mo 16:00-18:00 (14×)
• 180311 VO 3 ECTS The Expression of Thought - Language in Frege and Wittgenstein
  Heinrich, Tu 14:00-16:00 (16×)

§ 3/2/7 Philosophy of Law and Philosophy of Politics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180125 LPS 6 ECTS Reading Course - Plato II - The statesman
  Dunshirn, Mo 18:00-21:00 (15×)
• 180172 VO 3 ECTS Law and Justice
  Gotz, Mo 18:00-19:30 (15×)
• 180343 PS 4 ECTS Europe as a Cultural Space
  Pfabigan, We 15:30-17:00 (17×)
• 180428 PS 4 ECTS Introduction to Marx's main work - On the logical and conceptual structure of Marx's analysis of cap - Zum logischen und begrifflichen Aufbau der Marxschen Kapitalanalyse
  Reitter, Th 14:00-16:00 (15×)
• 180512 PS 4 ECTS System theory - philosophical implications
  Füllsack

§ 3/2/8 Philosophical Anthropology [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180306 SE 5 ECTS From place to space - The spatial turn in the anthropology
  Diaconu, Tu 12:30-14:00 (14×)
• 180355 PS 4 ECTS Idea and future of man
  Rhemann, Th 13:00-14:30 (15×)
• 180444 VO 3 ECTS Anthropology
  Pöltner, Fr 08:00-10:00 (15×)

§ 3/2/9 Aesthetics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180336 VO 3 ECTS Aesthetics of film
  Nagl, We 18:00-20:00 (16×)
• 180344 VO 3 ECTS Elfriede Jelinek - An introduction
  Pfabigan, We 11:15-12:45 (13×)
• 180345 SE 5 ECTS Elfriede Jelinek - Central Topics of her Work
  Pfabigan, We 09:30-11:00 (17×)
• 180384 VO 3 ECTS Metaphysics of Art - The eclipse of the Ontological Argument for God's Existence and modern conjuncture of esthetic function (Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Mukarovsky, Malewitsch)
  Gartler, Mo 16:00-18:00 (15×)

§ 4: Second Stage of the Degree Programme

§ 4/1 Compulsory Courses

§ 4/1/1 History of Philosophy [Old Curriculum 2]

• 010351 VO 4 ECTS Contemporary philosophy
  Langthaler, Mo 18:15-19:45 (16×)
• 180141 VO-L 5 ECTS History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
  Dunshirn, We 16:15-17:45 (13×)
• 180337 VO-L 5 ECTS History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - From Kant to Hegel
  Nagl, Fr 14:00-16:00 (17×)
• 180361 VO-L 5 ECTS History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
  Wimmer, Tu 13:15-14:45 (16×)
• 180371 VO-L 5 ECTS History of Philosophy II (MIddle Ages and Early Modernity) - Major Themes in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Contexts
  Dethloff
• 180414 VO 3 ECTS 20th Century Philosophy - Metaphysics and their Criticism
  Puhl, Mo 15:00-17:00 (15×)
• 180482 VO 3 ECTS The esoteric of philosophy of Heidegger
  Trawny

§ 4/1/2 Metaphysics [Old Curriculum 3]

• 010135 VO 3 ECTS Metaphysics - (§ 3/2/2 and § 4/1/2)
  Langthaler, Th 10:00-12:00 (9×), Fr 10:00-12:00 (11×)
• 180353 SE 5 ECTS Mind and brain - Ontology in the field of intellectual development
  Rhemann, Th 10:00-11:30 (15×)
• 180356 SE 6 ECTS J.G. Fichte: Doctrine of Science 1811
  Waibel, We 13:00-15:00 (17×)
• 180363 SE 6 ECTS The Notion and its Genesis in Hegel¿s Science of Logic - Relation of Causality, Reciprocity and the Beginning of the Subjective Logic
  Auinger, Mo 18:00-20:00 (15×)
• 180418 SE 5 ECTS Aristotle's Metaphysics book Zeta - The problem of substance in book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics
  Segalerba, Fr 10:00-12:00 (15×)
• 180426 SE 5 ECTS [ en ] Analytic Social Ontology
  Theiner, We 12:00-14:00 (17×)
• 180438 SE 6 ECTS Logic and Metaphysics - Schelling's Phlosophy of Existence
  Zeidler, Th 10:00-11:30 (12×)
• 180439 VO-L 5 ECTS Forms of speculative Dialectic - Reconstruction of the Forms of speculative Dialectic in German Idealism ( Fichte,Schelling,Hegel ) and critical survey of the most important attempts at its reception
  Richli, We 15:00-17:00 (14×)
• 180440 VO-L 5 ECTS Metaphysics and Ontology - Aristotels - Heidegger
  Vetter, We 13:00-15:00 (16×)
• 180442 VO-L 5 ECTS Metaphysics and Ontology
  Pöltner, Th 08:00-10:00 (13×)
• 180443 SE 6 ECTS Metaphysics - The Question of Time
  Pöltner, Fr 11:00-14:00 (17×)
• 180455 SE 5 ECTS Time: a philosophical problem
  Hofmeister
• 180494 VO 3 ECTS [ de en ] Introduction to Philosophy of Mind
  Batthyany, Tu 15:00-17:00 (14×)

§ 4/1/3 Ethics [Old Curriculum 4]

• 180341 PV 8 ECTS Practical philosophy (Justice)
  Pauer-Studer
• 180354 SE 5 ECTS Wherefore we must - Ontology in the field of Moral-Philosophy
  Rhemann, We 14:30-16:00 (17×)
• 180385 VO 3 ECTS Interdisciplinary Lecture Series: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - The economical, ecological and social responsability of enterprises
  Kampits, Tu 16:00-18:00 (17×)
• 180420 SE 5 ECTS Lévinas - Ethic as "first Philosophy" 2
  Staudigl, Mo 15:00-17:00 (15×)
• 180422 VO 3 ECTS Ethic in Medicine
  Umek
• 180424 SE 5 ECTS Is there a Dignity of Human Embryos? - Der Begriff der Menschenwürde und seine Bedeutung für die zeitgenössische Diskussion um den ethischen Status befruchteter Eizellen
  Weiss, Fr 14:00-16:00 (17×)
• 180449 SE 5 ECTS Acknowleging - A fundamental category. A fundamental category to ethics, social & polit. philosophy
  Grimmlinger, Th 16:00-18:00 (14×)
• 180450 SE 5 ECTS Towards Aristotle`s Nicomachean Ethics
  Haltmayer, Th 18:00-19:30 (12×)
• 180474 SE 5 ECTS What we must do and what we may do to keep you healthy? - Ethical problems in health promotion
  Kaminsky
• 180475 SE 6 ECTS Moral for politics? - Conceptions of applied ethics
  Kaminsky
• 180484 SE 6 ECTS Conceptions of evil in Augustinus, Kant and Hannah Arendt
  Trawny

§ 4/1/4 Epistemology [Old Curriculum 6]

• 180311 VO 3 ECTS The Expression of Thought - Language in Frege and Wittgenstein
  Heinrich, Tu 14:00-16:00 (16×)
• 180339 SE 6 ECTS Philosophy as Methodology - The Pragmatism of Charles S. Peirce
  Nemeth
• 180430 VO 3 ECTS Descartes
  Wladika
• 180456 SE 5 ECTS [ en ] Devastating Tropes and Deceiving Senses - Scepticism in the Early Modern Period (SE)
  Kodera, Fr 14:00-16:00 (16×)
• 180477 SE 8 ECTS The methodology of consuetudimarily sinic medicine
  Wallner, Th 17:30-20:30 (13×)

§ 4/1/5 Logics [Old Curriculum 7]

• 180351 SE 6 ECTS The logic and mathematic of Charles S. Peirce
  Heinrich, Tu 09:00-11:00 (16×)
• 180394 SE 5 ECTS Introduction to the Theory of Computability.
  Hafner

§ 4/1/6 Philosophy of Nature [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180452 VO 3 ECTS Natural Philosophy and Natural Science - For Comparative Reflection and Interdisciplinary Education
  Hashi, Th 15:00-17:00 (14×)

§ 4/1/7 Extra-European Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180383 VO 3 ECTS Introduction to Chinese Thought
  Gabriel, Mo 16:30-18:00 (15×)
• 180402 VO 3 ECTS Philosophy in Latin America - Identity, comparasion and interaction
  Krumpel
• 180451 VO 3 ECTS The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Philosophical Anthropology
  Hashi, Tu 11:00-13:00 (16×)
• 180453 SE 5 ECTS Seminar for Comparative Philosophy
  Hashi, Tu 14:00-16:00 (16×)
• 180485 VO 3 ECTS [ en ] Chinese Philosophy: Classical Confucianism Daoism, and Chinese Mahayana Buddhism
  Shen
• 180486 VO 3 ECTS [ en ] Chinese Philosophy - Neo-Confucianism
  Shen
• 180487 SE 5 ECTS [ en ] Chinese spirituality and psychotherapy
  Shen
• 180513 VO 3 ECTS [ de es ] Octavio Paz: Looking for the instant
  Velázquez-Mejía
• 180514 SE 5 ECTS [ de es ] Hermeneutical interpretations: O. Paz, F. Schleiermacher, W. v. Humboldt
  Velázquez-Mejía
• 180515 SE 5 ECTS [ de es ] Philosophy of history
  Velázquez-Mejía

§ 4/2: Compulsory Elective Courses

§ 4/2/1 Philosophy of Religion [Old Curriculum 8]

• 010350 SE 6 ECTS Seminar: main positions of philosophical criticism of religion
  Langthaler, Th 13:30-15:45 (15×)
• 180070 SE 5 ECTS The question on god
  Bader
• 180329 VO 3 ECTS The Conception of God
  Klein, We 10:30-12:00 (15×)
• 180419 SE 5 ECTS The concept of philosophy in Islam - The authority of Aristoteles on the opinion of Ibn Rushd(Averroes 12. cen.): Are Philosophy and Theologie contradictory?
  Sheikhalaslamzadeh, We 09:00-11:00 (17×)

§ 4/2/1 Philosophy of History [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180515 SE 5 ECTS [ de es ] Philosophy of history
  Velázquez-Mejía

§ 4/2/2 Social Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180393 VO 3 ECTS The History of Social Criticism - A historical-philosophical Description of Critical Theories in the 19th and 20th Century
  Gürses, Tu 13:00-15:00 (17×)
• 180441 SE 6 ECTS [ en ] Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon - Racism, Neo-Colonialism
  Vogt
• 180464 SE 5 ECTS Biopolitics
  Weiss, Fr 16:00-18:00 (17×)
• 180511 LPS 6 ECTS Reading Course - J.J. Rousseau: Social contract
  Nagl, We 09:00-12:00 (17×)
• 190936 SE 4 ECTS 5.10.3 Michel Foucault: Die Disziplinargesellschaft (Überwachen und Strafen)
  Arnold
• 180516 VO-L 5 ECTS Philosophy of democracy
  Bader, Th 15:00-17:00 (13×)

§ 4/2/2 Philosophical Women's and Gender Research [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180368 SE 5 ECTS The Seals of Sophia
  Bauer-Zouhar
• 180413 SE 5 ECTS [ en ] Feminist Standpoint Theories
  Postl
• 180421 SE 5 ECTS Philosophies of Love
  Stoller, Fr 14:00-16:00 (16×)
• 180423 SE 5 ECTS Theories of Discourse
  Laquieze-Waniek

§ 4/2/3 Economic Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180308 VO 3 ECTS Knowledge Based Economy - ethical and epistemological implications
  Füllsack, Mo 14:15-15:45 (15×)
• 180348 VO 3 ECTS Philosophy and Economies
  Pircher, Tu 15:00-17:00 (17×)
• 180349 SE 5 ECTS Philosophy and Economics
  Pircher, Tu 17:00-19:00 (17×)
• 180385 VO 3 ECTS Interdisciplinary Lecture Series: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - The economical, ecological and social responsability of enterprises
  Kampits, Tu 16:00-18:00 (17×)

§ 4/2/3 Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology [Old Curriculum 5]

• 180433 VO 3 ECTS Theory of Science
  Zeidler, Mo 18:30-20:00 (15×)
• 180459 VO 3 ECTS Code: Communication and Control
  Hrachovec, Fr 10:00-12:00 (14×)
• 180463 SE 5 ECTS Historism and Critique of Historical Reason - Towards Philosophy of Social,Cultural & Human Sciences
  Zehetner, Tu 17:00-20:00 (8×)
• 180465 SE 5 ECTS Better humans? Cyborgvisions, technoscientifical and ethical reflections
  Singer
• 180478 SE 5 ECTS Introduction to historical Epistemology
  Brandstetter
• 180488 SE 5 ECTS Thinking in Open Systems: Cognition, Emotion and Transdisciplinarien Approaches
  Born, Mo 13:00-16:00 (5×)
• 180518 VO 3 ECTS Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology
  Brandstetter, Th 11:00-13:00 (12×)

§ 4/2/3 Philosophy of the Media [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180115 SE 6 ECTS Recent Media of Theories - Projectseminar
  Pias, We 11:00-12:30 (16×)

§ 4/2/4 Hermeneutics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180143 SE 5 ECTS Basic Writings of Phenomenology - Merleau-Ponty's Late Works
  Flatscher, Tu 10:00-13:00 (17×)
• 180513 VO 3 ECTS [ de es ] Octavio Paz: Looking for the instant
  Velázquez-Mejía
• 180514 SE 5 ECTS [ de es ] Hermeneutical interpretations: O. Paz, F. Schleiermacher, W. v. Humboldt
  Velázquez-Mejía

§ 4/2/4 Philosophy of Culture [Old Curriculum 8]

• 170224 VO 3 ECTS "It's not just a game." - Theory of games in contemporary aesthetik and art contexts
  Böhler
• 180262 SE 5 ECTS Walking through the city - Philosophical inquiries from peripatos to drifting
  Diaconu, Tu 11:00-12:30 (17×)
• 180391 SE 5 ECTS IS Philosophy/Pedagogics: "Education - Semi-Education - lack of education"
  Liessmann, Th 17:00-18:45 (13×)
• 180427 SE 5 ECTS Transfer(ence)
  Kadi, Mo 16:00-18:00 (14×)
• 180429 SE 5 ECTS The critique of the Ars vivendi - Problems of Aesthetic Views on Life
  Denker
• 180467 SE 6 ECTS The multi-cultural question: Politics of Identity, Difference and Recognition
  Singer, We 14:00-17:00 (14×)
• 180473 SE 5 ECTS Philosophy and laughter
  Kaminsky
• 180517 SE 6 ECTS Nieztsche and Indian Thought - The Influence of Paul Deussen on Nietzsches`s Philosophy
  Böhler, Tu 12:00-14:00 (14×)

§ 4/2/4 Intercultural Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 010029 VO 4 ECTS Intercultural Philosophy - Introduction into Latin American philosophy
  Schelkshorn, Mo 16:00-18:00 (16×)
• 180359 SE 5 ECTS Globalization - Battle between Cultures
  Wallner, Th 15:00-17:00 (13×)
• 180400 VO-L 3 ECTS Human nature and freedom of will - The interpretation of human being in eastern & western philosophy
  Kim, We 17:00-19:00 (14×)

§ 4/2/5 Project Seminar

• 180115 SE 6 ECTS Recent Media of Theories - Projectseminar
  Pias, We 11:00-12:30 (16×)
• 180312 SE 6 ECTS Project-Module - Socrates
  Hrachovec, Th 17:00-19:00 (14×)
• 180468 SE 6 ECTS [ en ] Interdisciplinary Knowledge Lab: Observing, Reflecting and Creating Radically New Knowledge - [Project Seminar in Philosophy of Science 2]
  Peschl, Th 09:00-13:00 (15×)
• 180470 UE 4 ECTS [ en ] Exercise Course for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Lab - Project Seminar in Philosophy of Science 2
  Peschl

§ 2/5: Courses in a Foreign Language

• 180403 UE 4 ECTS Greek Terminology
  Gr. 1 Lachawitz, Fr 17:00-18:30 (17×)
  Gr. 2 Masek, Mo 18:00-20:00 (15×)
  Gr. 3 Klien, We 18:00-19:30 (17×)
• 180413 SE 5 ECTS [ en ] Feminist Standpoint Theories
  Postl
• 180415 PS 4 ECTS [ fr ] The moral reflection in the french philosophy
  Purdea, Th 10:00-12:00 (15×)
• 180426 SE 5 ECTS [ en ] Analytic Social Ontology
  Theiner, We 12:00-14:00 (17×)
• 180441 SE 6 ECTS [ en ] Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon - Racism, Neo-Colonialism
  Vogt
• 180485 VO 3 ECTS [ en ] Chinese Philosophy: Classical Confucianism Daoism, and Chinese Mahayana Buddhism
  Shen
• 180486 VO 3 ECTS [ en ] Chinese Philosophy - Neo-Confucianism
  Shen
• 180487 SE 5 ECTS [ en ] Chinese spirituality and psychotherapy
  Shen
• 180513 VO 3 ECTS [ de es ] Octavio Paz: Looking for the instant
  Velázquez-Mejía
• 180519 UE 4 ECTS Greek Terminology
  Klien, Fr 14:00-16:00 (14×)