18.01. Philosophy

A. Bachelor's Degree Programme Philosophy

1. Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase (StEOP BA neu)

1.a StEOP-Modul 1.1 Einführung in die theoretische Philosophie (BA neu)

• 180001 EV-L STEOP: Theoretical Philosophy

1.a StEOP-Modul 1.2 Einführung in die praktische Philosophie (BA neu)

• 180002 EV-L STEOP: Practical Philosophy

1.b Studieneingangsphase (BA alt)

M-01 Methoden und Techniken (BA alt)

• 180083 GV Greek Terminology

2. Required Modules

M-03 Language and Thought

• 180011 IK Introduction to Scientific Work in Philosophy
• 180083 GV Greek Terminology

M-03 Language and Thought

• 180011 IK Introduction to Scientific Work in Philosophy
• 180012 LPS Plato Politeia 504a - 535 a - The three similes and their interpretation
• 180013 LPS Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
• 180014 LPS Philosophy of German Romanticism - Zerstörung der Vernunft oder Erneuerung?
• 180015 LPS John Locke: Essay & Two Treatises of Government
• 180017 LPS Kant - Critique of Judgment - Kritik der ästhetischen Urteilskraft
• 180070 LPS Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
• 180085 LPS name and necessity
• 180149 VO-L Introduction into theoretical philosophy - Einführung EC und PP
• 180173 VO-L Introduction into theoretical philosophy - Einführung EC und PP

M-03 Language and Thought

• 180018 VO-GKL Basic Logic
• 180020 VO Philosophy of Language
• 180086 UE-GKL Exercise in Logic
• 180170 IK [ en de ] Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation

M-04 History of Philosophy until the End of the 19th Century

• 010132 VO Ancient Philosophy
• 180022 VO-L History of Philosophy II
• 180024 VO-L Kant and German Idealism - Einbildungskraft und Urteilskraft.
• 180093 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

M-05 Reality and Truth

• 010123 FS Science of Logic
• 180009 VO-L The flesh of immanence - Spinoza. Nietzsche. Deleuze
• 180026 SE Philosophical Anthropology and Ontology - General science of man in the field of theoretical philosophy
• 180027 VO Introduction to Epistemology
• 180028 SE G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind - The Self-Consciousness
• 180029 SE G.W.F. Hegel - Phenomenology of Mind I
• 180030 VO-L The will to semblance - On truth and lies
• 180031 VO-L [ en ] Knowledge Creation: Epistemological foundations
• 180033 VO Introduction into the Theory of Knowledge
• 180034 VO Philosophy of the Cultural Sciences and Humanities
• 180096 PS Close Reading Logic and Metaphysics - Leibniz' Logik und deren Rezeption im 19. und 20. Jhd. (Erdmann, Trendelenburg, Russell, Frege)
• 180098 PS Speaking about the Unspeakable? - The negative theology of Ps.-Dionysius, Iohannes Scottus, and Nicolaus Cusanus
• 180099 PS Plato's Theory of Forms
• 180100 PS Personal Identity
• 180102 VO-L Philosophy of Labor and work - Wie bestimmt die gesellschaftliche Beschaffenheit von Tätigkeit und Produktion das Denken und wie das Denken über Arbeit die Vorstellung von Gesellschaft?
• 180152 PS Aristotle's "Metaphysics"

M-06 Good and Evil

• 180006 SE Can Ethics be Taught?
• 180035 PS Aristoteles, Nicomachean Ethics
• 180036 PS Hegel's Theory of Recognition
• 180037 SE [ en ] Why be a good believer?
• 180040 VO-L Plato´s "Politeia" - An introduction to Political Philosophy
• 180041 VO Introduction to Applied Ethics
• 180103 PS Free will in the philosophical and neurobiological discussion
• 180106 PS Phenomenological analysis of death
• 180107 SE [ en ] Computer Ethics
• 180139 VO justice - Ausgewählte Texte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
• 180156 VO-L Emmanuel Levinas - Ethik als erste Philosophie
• 180162 SE Introduction to Marx's social philosophy
• 180164 PS Ethics and Psychoanalysis - Psychoanalytic investigations into ethics
• 180166 SE The controversy surrounding the Affirmative Action
• 180182 SE The Ethic of Hannah Arendt

M-07 Technology and Media

• 180043 SE [ de en ] Podcasts, philosophically
• 180044 SE Transhumanism and the Question of Human Nature - Philosophical Reflections on Biotechnologies and Human Enhancement
• 180108 SE Forms of Psychical Technologization - Affective Modulation, Psychotechnology, Philosophy
• 180109 SE Radical Franch Philospohy: La Mettrie - Affective Modulation, Psychotechnology, Philosophy
• 180169 SE [ en ] Trust (and Privacy) in Online Communication
• 180172 VO-L [ en ] Communication and Mediatization

M-08 The Own and the Alien

• 180010 SE Immanence in the Context of Indian Philosophies
• 180045 SE Philosophy of Culture: Migrants, Refugees, Diaspora, and the Question of Cultural Identity
• 180046 VO-L 'Europe' and the Philosophy - Öffnungen und Begrenzungen
• 180047 SE Reading Chinese Philosophy: Confucius, Analects
• 180110 SE Kwasi Wiredu: Conceptual Decolonisation - Reading of Texts of Valentin Y. Mudimbe, Kwasi Wiredu, Oyeronke Oyewumi
• 180111 SE Philosophy in Latin America 3 (Argentinien,Chile,Paraguay) - Identity,Comparison,Interaction between Latin American and European
• 180147 VO-L The system of philosophy - An Inter-Action of the Philosophy East and West
• 180148 SE Seminar of Comparative Philosophy - Toward the System of the Philosophy East and West

3. Elective Modules

M-09 Mind and Language

• 180016 SE Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"
• 180039 SE [ de en ] The Method of Analysis - The Book by J. Hintikka and U. Remes
• 180050 VO Cognitive Science - Introduction and Basic Concepts
• 180051 SE Modal logic and overview of philosophical logic
• 180137 VO [ en ] Philosophy of Mind
• 010044 BA On the margin of the knowable - Erkenntnis, Geist und Rationalität bei Nikolaus Cusanus
• 180087 SE [ en ] Lektüreseminar: Peter Geach - Mental Acts
• 180177 PS The Spirit of Animals
• 180178 VO-L Tags: aspects of (human) thinking
• 180179 PS [ en ] Language and Mind - American Transcendentalism between Kant and Nietzsche
• 180180 SE Philosophical Problems of/with Psychoanalysis

M-10 Art, Culture, Religion

• 010026 VO Intercultural Philosophy - Intercultural Philosophy. Latin American Philosophy in the context of a global discourse on Modernity
• 140246 PS [ en ] Death in Tibetan Buddhism
• 180004 VO-L Philosophy of religion - The religious philosophy of Vatican II
• 180052 VO-L Heinrich Heine. Philosophy, Religion, Revolution
• 180053 VO-L Philosophy of history
• 180054 SE God as a sphere, lion, Creator, God - Eine Einführung in die Religionsphilosophie
• 180136 VO evolutionary Anthropology - Die Evolution des Menschen in Natur und Kultur
• 180157 SE Basic concepts of aesthetics
• 180120 SE philosophical anthropology - human`s position in the Koran

M-11 Contemporary Thought

• 180016 SE Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"
• 180050 VO Cognitive Science - Introduction and Basic Concepts
• 180051 SE Modal logic and overview of philosophical logic
• 180056 PS Introduction to Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
• 180115 SE Castoriadis' Critical Theory of Society
• 180118 SE Body and language, gender and power - Judith Butler and the challenge of philosophical gender studies
• 180138 SE Future repeated - Proust and Deleuze on Time and Memory
• 180142 SE Hegemony or micro-politics? - Politische Philosophie bei Laclau und Deleuze
• 180174 SE Fundamental questions of existence analysis
• 010022 FS Jacques Lacan - The Names of the Father
• 180087 SE [ en ] Lektüreseminar: Peter Geach - Mental Acts
• 180121 VO-L Philosophy of Science - Part 1 - From the historical to the current debate
• 180178 VO-L Tags: aspects of (human) thinking
• 180180 SE Philosophical Problems of/with Psychoanalysis

M-12 Applied Ethics

• 180055 SE Ecological Ethics
• 180116 SE Business Ethics
• 180117 VO-L Common sense - "Sozialkapital" als Grundlagendiskurs der Wirtschaftsethik
• 180161 SE Aging-Disease-Dying - Philosophical, medical and ethical problems in geriatrics
• 180007 VO+UE [ en ] Introduction to Applied Ethics and its Methodologies

M-13 Gender and Society

• 140395 SE T I - VM3 - VM4 Foundations of Social Criticism I
• 180056 PS Introduction to Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
• 180084 VO-L Lecture Philosophy and Society
• 180115 SE Castoriadis' Critical Theory of Society
• 180118 SE Body and language, gender and power - Judith Butler and the challenge of philosophical gender studies
• 180119 SE Becoming-Woman: Feminist Thinking of Becoming - Rosi Braidotti and Gilles Deleuze
• 180158 SE Gender & Love - Feministische Philosophien der Liebe

M-14 Human and Nature

• 010086 VO Philosophical Anthropolgy
• 180136 VO evolutionary Anthropology - Die Evolution des Menschen in Natur und Kultur
• 180137 VO [ en ] Philosophy of Mind
• 180174 SE Fundamental questions of existence analysis
• 300084 SE Current topics in philosophy, theology and biology - Interdisciplinary discussions of current topics in Philosophy, Theology and Biology
• 010015 BA Texts on current problems of Philosophical Anthropology
• 180177 PS The Spirit of Animals
• 180181 SE Natural Law in Thomas of Aquin and Duns Scotus

M-15 Philosophy of Science

• 070383 SE Seminar Specialisation 2 - The Idea of University - Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
• 180039 SE [ de en ] The Method of Analysis - The Book by J. Hintikka and U. Remes
• 180121 VO-L Philosophy of Science - Part 1 - From the historical to the current debate

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

• 010123 FS Science of Logic
• 180016 SE Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"
• 180039 SE [ de en ] The Method of Analysis - The Book by J. Hintikka and U. Remes
• 180050 VO Cognitive Science - Introduction and Basic Concepts
• 180138 SE Future repeated - Proust and Deleuze on Time and Memory
• 180174 SE Fundamental questions of existence analysis
• 180031 VO-L [ en ] Knowledge Creation: Epistemological foundations
• 180087 SE [ en ] Lektüreseminar: Peter Geach - Mental Acts
• 180175 VO-L Philosophy Lectures - Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Social Ontology
• 180181 SE Natural Law in Thomas of Aquin and Duns Scotus

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

• 180030 VO-L The will to semblance - On truth and lies
• 180046 VO-L 'Europe' and the Philosophy - Öffnungen und Begrenzungen
• 180052 VO-L Heinrich Heine. Philosophy, Religion, Revolution
• 180053 VO-L Philosophy of history
• 180063 SE Philosophical Moral Psychology
• 180084 VO-L Lecture Philosophy and Society
• 180167 SE Relativism and cultural affiliation
• 180172 VO-L [ en ] Communication and Mediatization

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

• 070383 SE Seminar Specialisation 2 - The Idea of University - Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
• 180031 VO-L [ en ] Knowledge Creation: Epistemological foundations
• 180058 SE Aristotle, Kant, Hegel - Categories
• 180059 FS [ en ] Wittgenstein and Epistemology
• 180154 EK Methods and Problems in History and Philosophy of Science
• 180171 SE Philosophy of perception
• 180175 VO-L Philosophy Lectures - Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Social Ontology
• 180176 SE HPS M04 science theory (5 ECTS)
• 180178 VO-L Tags: aspects of (human) thinking

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

• 010028 FS Spirit and Brain
• 180060 SE M3 as metaphysics / ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind
• 180061 SE M3 as metaphysics / ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind
• 180143 SE Heidegger and Wittgenstein
• 180146 SE Kant´s critical philosophy
• 180009 VO-L The flesh of immanence - Spinoza. Nietzsche. Deleuze
• 180031 VO-L [ en ] Knowledge Creation: Epistemological foundations
• 180053 VO-L Philosophy of history
• 180087 SE [ en ] Lektüreseminar: Peter Geach - Mental Acts
• 180171 SE Philosophy of perception
• 180178 VO-L Tags: aspects of (human) thinking

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

• 180009 VO-L The flesh of immanence - Spinoza. Nietzsche. Deleuze
• 180062 SE Language and Normativity
• 180143 SE Heidegger and Wittgenstein
• 180146 SE Kant´s critical philosophy
• 180181 SE Natural Law in Thomas of Aquin and Duns Scotus

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

• 180030 VO-L The will to semblance - On truth and lies
• 180063 SE Philosophical Moral Psychology
• 180068 FS War in the reflection of the moral theory
• 180167 SE Relativism and cultural affiliation
• 180172 VO-L [ en ] Communication and Mediatization

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

• 180046 VO-L 'Europe' and the Philosophy - Öffnungen und Begrenzungen
• 180052 VO-L Heinrich Heine. Philosophy, Religion, Revolution
• 180053 VO-L Philosophy of history
• 180140 FS From body to body - Philosophische und interkulturelle Ansätze

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

• 180065 SE-MA Masters and Doctoral Students
• 180140 FS From body to body - Philosophische und interkulturelle Ansätze
• 180154 EK Methods and Problems in History and Philosophy of Science
• 180155 SE-MA Seminar for Masters and Doctoral Candidates
• 180159 SE Project
• 180160 SE Seminar for Diploma & Doctoral Candidates
• 180165 SE-MA Masters and Doctoral Students
• 430005 SE [ en ] Dissertation Seminar in Knowledge Technologies, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy of Science
• 430006 SE-MA Masters and Doctoral Students
• 430008 SE Masters and Doctoral Students
• 430009 SE-MA Masters and Doctoral Students
• 430011 SE-MA Seminar for doctoral candidates - Privatissimum

B. Master's Degree Programme Philosophy

M1 Theoretical Philosophy

• 180009 VO-L The flesh of immanence - Spinoza. Nietzsche. Deleuze
• 180016 SE Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"
• 180031 VO-L [ en ] Knowledge Creation: Epistemological foundations
• 180039 SE [ de en ] The Method of Analysis - The Book by J. Hintikka and U. Remes
• 180050 VO Cognitive Science - Introduction and Basic Concepts
• 180058 SE Aristotle, Kant, Hegel - Categories
• 180059 FS [ en ] Wittgenstein and Epistemology
• 180060 SE M3 as metaphysics / ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind
• 180061 SE M3 as metaphysics / ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind
• 180062 SE Language and Normativity
• 180087 SE [ en ] Lektüreseminar: Peter Geach - Mental Acts
• 180138 SE Future repeated - Proust and Deleuze on Time and Memory
• 180143 SE Heidegger and Wittgenstein
• 180146 SE Kant´s critical philosophy
• 180154 EK Methods and Problems in History and Philosophy of Science
• 180171 SE Philosophy of perception
• 180174 SE Fundamental questions of existence analysis
• 180175 VO-L Philosophy Lectures - Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Social Ontology
• 180178 VO-L Tags: aspects of (human) thinking
• 180181 SE Natural Law in Thomas of Aquin and Duns Scotus

M2 Practical Philosophy

• 180030 VO-L The will to semblance - On truth and lies
• 180052 VO-L Heinrich Heine. Philosophy, Religion, Revolution
• 180063 SE Philosophical Moral Psychology
• 180068 FS War in the reflection of the moral theory
• 180084 VO-L Lecture Philosophy and Society
• 180172 VO-L [ en ] Communication and Mediatization

M3 Contemporary Philosophy

• 180059 FS [ en ] Wittgenstein and Epistemology
• 180062 SE Language and Normativity
• 180063 SE Philosophical Moral Psychology
• 180138 SE Future repeated - Proust and Deleuze on Time and Memory
• 180175 VO-L Philosophy Lectures - Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Social Ontology

M4 Philosophy of Culture

• 180046 VO-L 'Europe' and the Philosophy - Öffnungen und Begrenzungen
• 180052 VO-L Heinrich Heine. Philosophy, Religion, Revolution
• 180053 VO-L Philosophy of history
• 180138 SE Future repeated - Proust and Deleuze on Time and Memory
• 180167 SE Relativism and cultural affiliation

M5 Project-Module

M6 Philosophical Research

• 180065 SE-MA Masters and Doctoral Students
• 180140 FS From body to body - Philosophische und interkulturelle Ansätze
• 180155 SE-MA Seminar for Masters and Doctoral Candidates
• 180160 SE Seminar for Diploma & Doctoral Candidates
• 180165 SE-MA Masters and Doctoral Students
• 430011 SE-MA Seminar for doctoral candidates - Privatissimum

D. Interdisciplinary Master's Degree Programme History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)

• 070278 SE Master and Doctoral Students Seminar - Historical Science Studies

M01 Compensation Module

M1.1 Philosophy

• 180018 VO-GKL Basic Logic
• 180030 VO-L The will to semblance - On truth and lies
• 180034 VO Philosophy of the Cultural Sciences and Humanities
• 180040 VO-L Plato´s "Politeia" - An introduction to Political Philosophy
• 180162 SE Introduction to Marx's social philosophy
• 180027 VO Introduction to Epistemology
• 180050 VO Cognitive Science - Introduction and Basic Concepts
• 180086 UE-GKL Exercise in Logic
• 180170 IK [ en de ] Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation
• 180176 SE HPS M04 science theory (5 ECTS)

M1.2 History

• 070112 VO Logic of Science and Logic of History - Sozialwissenschaftlicher Theorienbaukasten für die Geschichtswissenschaften
• 070223 KU Sources and Methods of the History of Science - Concepts of the sciences in historical and cultural contexts: 19th and 20th Century
• 070123 VO [ en ] Logic of Science and Logic of History
• 070231 GR Guided Reading - Geography and Cartography during the 19th and early 20th century
• 070016 PS Proseminar - Uni:visuals - historical an filmic perspectives on university
• 070090 PS Proseminar - History of Cartography
• 070041 KU Reading Historiography

M1.3 Science

• 070223 KU Sources and Methods of the History of Science - Concepts of the sciences in historical and cultural contexts: 19th and 20th Century
• 070231 GR Guided Reading - Geography and Cartography during the 19th and early 20th century
• 180170 IK [ en de ] Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation

M02 Methods and Problems

• 180154 EK Methods and Problems in History and Philosophy of Science

M03 History of Science

• 070383 SE Seminar Specialisation 2 - The Idea of University - Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
• 070223 KU Sources and Methods of the History of Science - Concepts of the sciences in historical and cultural contexts: 19th and 20th Century
• 070033 SE Seminar - Botanical Gardens as Spaces of Knowledge

M04 Philosophy of Science

• 070383 SE Seminar Specialisation 2 - The Idea of University - Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
• 180031 VO-L [ en ] Knowledge Creation: Epistemological foundations
• 180034 VO Philosophy of the Cultural Sciences and Humanities
• 180039 SE [ de en ] The Method of Analysis - The Book by J. Hintikka and U. Remes
• 180059 FS [ en ] Wittgenstein and Epistemology

M05 Vertiefung

• 070383 SE Seminar Specialisation 2 - The Idea of University - Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

M06 Master-Thesis Module

• 070278 SE Master and Doctoral Students Seminar - Historical Science Studies
• 070213 SE Master Seminar - Medizin des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit

D. Complementary study programmes (minors) for students of other bachelor degree programmes

CSP1 Aesthetics and Philosophy of Culture

• 180046 VO-L 'Europe' and the Philosophy - Öffnungen und Begrenzungen
• 180052 VO-L Heinrich Heine. Philosophy, Religion, Revolution
• 180172 VO-L [ en ] Communication and Mediatization

CSP2 Ehics

• 180040 VO-L Plato´s "Politeia" - An introduction to Political Philosophy
• 180084 VO-L Lecture Philosophy and Society
• 180117 VO-L Common sense - "Sozialkapital" als Grundlagendiskurs der Wirtschaftsethik
• 180141 VO-L Classics of practical philosophy

CSP3 Philosophicum

• 180046 VO-L 'Europe' and the Philosophy - Öffnungen und Begrenzungen
• 180141 VO-L Classics of practical philosophy
• 180147 VO-L The system of philosophy - An Inter-Action of the Philosophy East and West
• 180149 VO-L Introduction into theoretical philosophy - Einführung EC und PP
• 180173 VO-L Introduction into theoretical philosophy - Einführung EC und PP

CSP4 History of Philosophy

• 180022 VO-L History of Philosophy II
• 180024 VO-L Kant and German Idealism - Einbildungskraft und Urteilskraft.
• 180093 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

CSP5 eTutorials and Knowledge Experts

CSP5 - 1. Teaching & Learning Space Group

CSP5 - 2. Knowledge Construction and Media Manipulation

CSP5 - 3. Practical Skills

CSP6 Knowledge Creation: The emergence of new knowledge and innovation

CSP6 M1: Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Creation and of Knowledge- & Innovation-Design

• 180031 VO-L [ en ] Knowledge Creation: Epistemological foundations
• 180144 VU Designing Innovation: Designing knowledge-, innovation and learning processes

CSP6 M2: Knowledge Atelier

• 180145 SE Knowledge Atelier: Designing and implementing knowledge projects