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)

• 180077 EV-L STEOP: Practical Philosophy

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

• 180078 EV-L STEOP: Practical Philosophy

1.b Studieneingangsphase (BA alt)

M-01 Methoden und Techniken (BA alt)

2. Required Modules

M-03 Language and Thought

• 180001 LPS Kant: Prolegomena
• 180002 LPS Ethics and the Question of Metaphysics - Kant and Levinas
• 180005 LPS Critique of Practical Reason
• 180079 IK Introduction to Scientific Work in Philosophy
• 180080 GV Greek Terminology
• 180081 LPS Reading Descartes: Discours de la Méthode and Meditationes de Prima Philosophia
• 180082 LPS Edmund Husserl's " experience and judgment
• 180137 LPS Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• 180147 LPS Daodejing and its Implications for Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Process Philosophy
• 180148 LPS Hans Blumenberg: The laughter of the Thracian.
• 180167 LPS Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics

M-03 Language and Thought

M-03 Language and Thought

• 180006 VO-GKL Basic Logic
• 180008 IK [ en de ] Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation
• 180009 VO Philosophy of Language
• 180084 UE-GKL Exercise in Logic

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

• 180007 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity) - From the Presocratics to Plato
• 180011 VO-L Post-Hegelian Thinking - Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche
• 180012 VO-L History of Philosophy II

M-05 Reality and Truth

• 180014 PS Freedom as a Persistent Problem. Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer
• 180015 PS Edmund Husserl - Cartesian Meditations
• 180016 VO-L Basic Problems and Concepts of Phenomenology
• 180017 VO-L G.W. Leibniz - Theory of Individuality
• 180020 SE Hegels Science of Logic - beginning logic of essence - From reflection to reason
• 180022 SE History and Theory of Historiography of Philosophy
• 180023 SE [ en ] Intellectuel virtue
• 180047 PS Social epistemology
• 180053 VO Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
• 180054 VO Philosophy of Science - Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein, and Popper. Theory Dynamics and Problem History in Context
• 180089 PS [ en ] Metaphysical Arguments for/against the existence of God
• 180135 SE The concept of God in modern times and today
• 180154 PS Death as a philosophical problem
• 180161 VO [ en ] Theories of truth
• 180166 VO Introduction into the Theory of Knowledge

M-06 Good and Evil

• 180028 PS Utilitarianism
• 180029 SE [ en ] Constitutivism About Agency and Morality
• 180030 VO-L [ de en ] Lecture: Environmental Ethics focusing plants Ethics
• 180031 SE Phenomenological Approaches to Community: Inter, With, and We
• 180033 SE Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right
• 180056 SE Being - Thinking - Acting - Philosophical Anthropology, Dialectic and Ethics
• 180092 VO Between Literacy and Orality: Philosophy and Law - Rereadings with Agamben, Foucault, Vesting, and Legendre
• 180093 VO Introduction to Applied Ethics
• 180134 PS Augustinus: De libero arbitrio
• 180153 PS Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• 180158 SE Philosophy and Phenomenology of Racism
• 180159 SE Introduction to Kant's Ethics
• 180164 SE Ethics of Psychoanalysis - Human dignity and human rights
• 180170 SE Aristotle, Politics

M-07 Technology and Media

• 180004 SE Philosophy of Technology: Herbert Marcuse and Hans Jonas
• 180035 VO-L Art and philosophy of the free exchange of research
• 180036 VO-L Media philosophy : CCCI ( Command , Control , Communication , Information )
• 180037 SE Philosophy of Technology - Latour, Haraway, Winner
• 180157 SE Cyborgs , Science & Fiction. Technology Philosophical Investigations

M-08 The Own and the Alien

• 180038 SE Culture and cultural Identity
• 180094 SE Society of betweenness - Migration in a global world
• 180095 VO-L Philosophy in ancient Egypt and ancient Ethiopia - A reading of ancient Egyptian texts in comparison with texts from ancient Greece and a reading of Zär'a Yaqob in comparison with Descartes
• 180096 SE Conceptual Decolonisation in African Philosophy - A reading of Valentin Y. Mudimbe, Kwasi Wiredu, Oyeronke Oyewumi and Achille Mbembe
• 180097 VO-L Dogen: shobo genzo (II) - Von der Essenz der Zen-Philosophie
• 180098 SE Philosophy in Latin America 2 (Peru, Ekuador, Bolivien) - Identity, Comparison, Interaction between Latin American and European
• 180179 SE [ de es ] Intercultural Philosophy and Cultural Hermeneutics

3. Elective Modules

M-09 Mind and Language

• 180016 VO-L Basic Problems and Concepts of Phenomenology
• 180039 SE Theoria, Praxis and Poiesis as an originally synthetic coherent activity - Their structure and the main aspects of their coherence
• 180040 SE The Myth of the Mental? The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate and Phenomenology
• 180047 PS Social epistemology
• 180050 SE Wittgenstein
• 180055 SE Fundam questions of existence analysis - Die Bedeutung der Sprache für die psychotherapeutische Praxis
• 180130 SE The Persistent Vapours of Melancholia - he Foucault-Derrida Debate on Madness in Descartes
• 180161 VO [ en ] Theories of truth
• 180169 SE [ en ] Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit in contemporary Anglo-American Philosophy

M-10 Art, Culture, Religion

• 010061 VO Philosophical Theology
• 010063 SE Immanuel Kant: " Der Streit der Fakultäten" - "Der Streit zwischen der theologischen und der philosophischen Fakultät"
• 060040 SE Three Jewish Thinkers in Dialogue: Hermann Cohen - Martin Buber - Franz Rosenzweig
• 180042 VO-L Aesthetics of the Ugly
• 180044 VO-L [ de en ] Philosophy AS an Art - What is arts-based-philosophy?
• 180046 SE Colors. Publication - Presentation - theory.
• 180070 SE Philosophy of Literature
• 180168 SE Philosophy as a way of life
• 180176 SE The position of aesthetics in the philosophy of Bacon to Freud
• 180179 SE [ de es ] Intercultural Philosophy and Cultural Hermeneutics

M-11 Contemporary Thought

• 010066 SE Existentialism: Sören Kierkegaard and Albert Camus
• 010351 VO Contemporary philosophy - The Crisis of Europe - internal and external views
• 180040 SE The Myth of the Mental? The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate and Phenomenology
• 180046 SE Colors. Publication - Presentation - theory.
• 180047 PS Social epistemology
• 180050 SE Wittgenstein
• 180052 SE The force of law: Benjamin and Derrida
• 180053 VO Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
• 180055 SE Fundam questions of existence analysis - Die Bedeutung der Sprache für die psychotherapeutische Praxis
• 180059 SE [ en ] Interdisciplinary Knowledge Lab: Observing, Reflecting and Creating Radically New Knowledge
• 180100 SE [ en ] Slavoj Zizek
• 180101 SE Timothy Sprigge's Panpsychist Idealism
• 180106 VO [ en ] Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Consciousness, Cognition and the Brain-Mind Problem
• 180109 VO-L Philosophy of science and psychoanalysis Part 2 - Current psychoanalytic research and its link to neighbouring disciplines, especially to neurobiology
• 180130 SE The Persistent Vapours of Melancholia - he Foucault-Derrida Debate on Madness in Descartes
• 180133 VO The Theory of Evolution: Its History, Its Structure, and Its Philosophical Implications
• 180161 VO [ en ] Theories of truth
• 180168 SE Philosophy as a way of life
• 180169 SE [ en ] Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit in contemporary Anglo-American Philosophy

M-12 Applied Ethics

• 180030 VO-L [ de en ] Lecture: Environmental Ethics focusing plants Ethics
• 180048 SE [ en ] Moral Individualism - Critique of a major argument in animal ethics
• 180102 VO-L Economy of Relationships - Ethics of an immaterial resorurce
• 180103 SE Aging-Disease-Dying - Philosophical, medical and ethical problems in geriatrics
• 180160 SE Kant's ethics : Applied topics
• 300229 SE Current topics in philosophy, theology and biology - Interdisciplinary discussions of current topics in Philosophy, Theology and Biology

M-13 Gender and Society

• 140413 SE T I - VM3 - VM4 Foundations of Social Criticism II
• 180044 VO-L [ de en ] Philosophy AS an Art - What is arts-based-philosophy?
• 180051 SE Productive differences - Positionen feministischer Differenzenphilosophie
• 180052 SE The force of law: Benjamin and Derrida
• 180100 SE [ en ] Slavoj Zizek
• 180104 VO-L Feminist Ethics and Gender-/Queer-Studies - An Introduction

M-14 Human and Nature

• 180017 VO-L G.W. Leibniz - Theory of Individuality
• 180039 SE Theoria, Praxis and Poiesis as an originally synthetic coherent activity - Their structure and the main aspects of their coherence
• 180055 SE Fundam questions of existence analysis - Die Bedeutung der Sprache für die psychotherapeutische Praxis
• 180056 SE Being - Thinking - Acting - Philosophical Anthropology, Dialectic and Ethics
• 180101 SE Timothy Sprigge's Panpsychist Idealism
• 180106 VO [ en ] Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Consciousness, Cognition and the Brain-Mind Problem
• 180107 SE Animal Philosophy of Mind
• 180132 SE Natural Philosophy and Natural Science - Tangent and Emergence in the Field of Interdisciplinary Confrontation
• 180133 VO The Theory of Evolution: Its History, Its Structure, and Its Philosophical Implications
• 180152 SE [ en ] Emotions, Feelings and Moods

M-15 Philosophy of Science

• 180047 PS Social epistemology
• 180059 SE [ en ] Interdisciplinary Knowledge Lab: Observing, Reflecting and Creating Radically New Knowledge
• 180109 VO-L Philosophy of science and psychoanalysis Part 2 - Current psychoanalytic research and its link to neighbouring disciplines, especially to neurobiology
• 180110 VO-L Realism
• 180132 SE Natural Philosophy and Natural Science - Tangent and Emergence in the Field of Interdisciplinary Confrontation
• 180161 VO [ en ] Theories of truth