2. Mandatory Modules (104 ECTS)

M-02 Language and Thought (14 ECTS)

M 2.1 Introduction to Academic Writing in Philosophy

• 180048 VU [ en de ] M-02 Introduction to Academic Writing in Philosophy

M 2.2 Lecture Course on Greek Terminology

• 180164 VO M-04 Greek Terminology

M 2.3 Introductory Seminar with Close Readings (Version 2011)

• 180049 PS Nagarjuna: mind, world, and language
• 180165 PS The phenomenology of Edmund Husserl - Begrifflichkeit, Methoden, Themen
• 180205 PS Platon Politeia

M-03 Language and Thought (15 ECTS)

M 3.1 Basic Logic

• 180050 VO M-03 Fundamentals of Logic

M 3.2 Exercise Course in Logic

• 180051 UE [ de en ] M-03 Exercise Course in Logic

M 3.3 Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation

• 180052 VU [ de en ] M-03 Reasoning in Philosophy

M 3.4 Philosophy of Language

• 180053 VO Lecture Course with Readings on the Philosophy of Language

M-04 History of Philosophy until the End of the 19th Century (15 ECTS)

M 4.1 History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

• 180055 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

M 4.2 History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modern Period)

• 180056 VO-L History of Philosophy II

M 4.3 History of Philosophy III (Modern Period)

• 180057 VO-L History of Philosophy III - Modern Period Until the End of the 19th Cent.

M-05 Reality and Truth (20 ECTS)

M 5.1 Metaphysics and Ontology

• 180059 PS Pomponazzi and the Debate on the Immortality of the Soul
• 180166 PS Learning Philosophy as Lifelong Death? - Der Tod als grundlegende Frage der Philosophie
• 180182 PS Introduction to ontology
• 180222 PS Aristotle: Physics V, VI, and VIII - Motion and Continuity

M 5.2 Metaphysics and Ontology

• 180168 VO Introduction to Analytical Metaphysics

M 5.3 Knowledge and Society

• 180069 SE Media Workshop - pandemic
• 180074 SE The philosophical foundations of civilizational analysis
• 180092 KU Philosophical Practice: an introduction
• 180096 SE Theories of Society in Phenomenology and Discourse Theory

M 5.4 Epistemology

• 180060 VO Introduction to Epistemology

M 5.5 Theory of Science

• 180061 VO Introduction to Philosophy of Science

M-06 Good and Evil (20 ECTS)

M 6.1 Introductiory Seminar in Ethics

• 180062 PS [ en ] Collective Responsibility
• 180063 PS Susan Wolf on the Limits of Morality
• 180178 PS Philosophy of the good life in antiquity and the present
• 180215 PS [ en ] Multiple Realization - Reductionism and Beyond

M 6.2 Ethics

• 180082 KU Animal cognition and minimal cognition - Thought, Language, and Social Cognition
• 180093 KU Philosophy of human rights
• 180170 VO-L Violence as a philosophical problem
• 180199 VO Introduction into Animal Ethics
• 180207 VO "Principles of Biomedical Ethics" by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress

M 6.3 Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy

• 180096 SE Theories of Society in Phenomenology and Discourse Theory
• 180098 SE Power and Subject in Foucault
• 180153 SE Racism and the question of cultural identity
• 180218 VO Introduction to psychoanalytic perspective on cultural & social phenomena - Depth psychology I

M 6.4 Philosophy of Law and Morals

M 6.5 Fundamentals of Applied Ethics

• 180171 VO Foundations of Applied Ethics

M-07 Technology and Media (10 ECTS)

M 7.1 Media Theory

• 180069 SE Media Workshop - pandemic
• 180089 KU The Philosophy of Film Noir

M 7.2 Philosophy of Technology

• 180070 VO-L [ en ] Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
• 180072 KU Feminist technology philosophy
• 180091 VO Roboethics

M-08 The Foreign and the Familiar (10 ECTS)

M 8.1 Intercultural Philosophy and Cultural Hermeneutics

• 180074 SE The philosophical foundations of civilizational analysis
• 180076 VO Origins of Philosophy in a Global Perspective
• 180153 SE Racism and the question of cultural identity
• 180218 VO Introduction to psychoanalytic perspective on cultural & social phenomena - Depth psychology I

M 8.2 Non-European Philosophy

• 180075 VO The relevance of Chinese philosophy
• 180076 VO Origins of Philosophy in a Global Perspective