Bachelor Philosophy (541 [3] - Version 2017)

Study Entrance and Orientation Phase (18 ECTS)

M-01.a STEOP-Module: Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy (9 ECTS)

• EXAM REMOTE M-01.a Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy
• 180009 VO ( REMOTE STEOP ) M-01.a STEOP: Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy

M-01.b STEOP-Module: Introduction to Practical Philosophy (9 ECTS)

• EXAM REMOTE M-01.b Introduction to Practical Philosophy
• 180008 VO ( MIXED OV STEOP ) M-01.b STEOP: Introduction to Practical Philosophy

Basic Modules (82 ECTS)

M-02 Basic Skills in Philosophy (12 ECTS)

M-02.1 Introduction to Academic Writing in Philosophy

• 180022 VU [ en de ] M-02 Introduction to Academic Writing in Philosophy

M-02.2 Supervised Reading Course

• 180024 LPS ( MIXED ) Plato: Theaetetus
• 180035 LPS ( MIXED ) Scientific Explanations
• 180036 LPS Martin Heidegger: Being and Time (Pt. I, sec. I) - Sein und Zeit
• 180037 LPS [ en ] Husserl's "Cartesian Meditations"
• 180132 LPS Meaning/less - Readings on the Meaning of Life
• 180133 LPS John Stuart Mill - für Lehramt und MA Ethik
• 180134 LPS ( MIXED ) Martin Heidegger - Being and Time
• 180135 LPS ( MIXED ) The Art of Understanding - Classics in Hermeneutics
• 180185 LPS [ en ] Sara Ahmed’s Engaged Phenomenology - Sexuality & Race as Orientations in Social and Institutional Spaces
• 180192 LPS Thinking forgiveness. Approaches to philosophical ethics

M-03 Thought and Language (20 ECTS)

M-03.1 Fundamentals of Logic

• 180023 VO M-03 Fundamentals of Logic

M-03.2 Exercise Course in Logic

• 180026 UE [ de en ] ( REMOTE ) M-03 Exercise Course in Logic

M-03.3 Reasoning in Philosophy

• 180027 VU [ de en ] M-03 Reasoning in Philosophy

M-03.4 Lecture Course with Readings on the Philosophy of Language

• 180010 VO-L Lecture Course with Readings on the Philosophy of Language

M-04 History of Philosophy until the End of the 19th Century (20 ECTS)

M-04.1 Lecture Course with Readings on Greek Terminology

• 180011 VO M-04 Greek Terminology

M-04.2 Lecture Course with Readings on the History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

• 180012 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

M-04.3 Lecture Course with Readings on History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modernity)

• 180013 VO-L History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modern)

M-04.4 Lecture Course with Readings on the History of Philosophy III (Modern Philosophy)

• 180020 VO-L History of Philosophy III: Modern Period Until the End of the 19th Cent - Kant und Deutscher Idealismus

M-05 Fundamentals of Theoretical Philosophy (15 ECTS)

M-05.1 Metaphysics and Ontology

• 180039 PS ( REMOTE ) Roger Bacon - philosophy, wisdom and experimental science
• 180040 PS [ en ] Philosophical Puzzles and Paradoxes
• 180169 PS ( REMOTE ) Introduction to dialectics
• 180181 PS ( REMOTE ) Aristotle: metaphysics

M-05.2 Lecture Course with Readings on Metaphysics and Ontology

• 180041 VO-L Three Ways of First Philosophy

M-05.3 Epistemology

• 180028 VO Introduction to Epistemology

M-05.4 Theory of Science

• 180029 VO Introduction to Philosophy of Science

M-06 Fundamentals of Practical Philosophy (15 ECTS)

M-06.1 Ethics

• 180042 PS Plato, Politeia
• 180043 PS [ en ] Moral Epistemology
• 180044 PS Amoralism: Why be moral?
• 180045 PS ( MIXED ) Ethics of Vulnerability
• 180046 PS ( REMOTE ) Philosophy of Skepticism - Beginnings, Adaptations, Connections
• 180194 PS Kant. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

M-06.2 Lecture Course with Reading on Ethics

• 180047 VO-L ( MIXED ) The blind spot of morality

M-06.3 Philosophy and Society

• 180083 VO Hate - On shaping images of public enemies as an instrument to create political identities

M-06.4 Elements of Applied Ethics

• 180049 VO Foundations of Applied Ethics

Elective Modules (30 ECTS)

M-07 Philosophy of Media, Philosophy of Technology (10 ECTS)

• 180050 KU Innovation Lab: from idea to prototype - (summer course)
• 180051 SE Media Workshop: hospitality
• 180052 VO-L Innovation, cognition and knowledge generation - (summer course)
• 180053 SE Epistemologies of complexity
• 180071 KU Philosophy of Film - Thinking with Hitchcock
• 180096 KU [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Big Data in Science
• 180161 SE Basic concepts of media philosophy

M-08 Intercultural Philosophy, Non-European Philosophy (10 ECTS)

• 010094 VO ( MIXED ) Intercultural Philosophy
• 090073 VO Thinking the World. Byzantine natural philosophy and theology of creation
• 090078 VO [ en ] The Ascetic Ideal in Byzantium and the Eastern Mediterranean: A Historical Introduction
• 142157 SE [ en ] Gandhi's political philosophy and practice
• 180055 SE Honneth's Theory of Justice from an Intercultural Perspective
• 180056 VO-L The relevance of Chinese philosophy
• 180057 VO-L Discourses and ways of thinking in philosophy with a view to their intercultural relevance
• 180058 VO-L Philosophy of Gift in India
• 180065 KU Nothing
• 180168 SE ( MIXED ) Buddhism in East Asia and its cultural-philosophical content

M-09 Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Language (10 ECTS)

• 010117 VO Hermeneutics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
• 180053 SE Epistemologies of complexity
• 180059 KU Paradoxes
• 180060 SE Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations
• 180061 VO-L Rethink Kant's Critique of Judgment in aesthetics, natural philosophy, systems theory
• 180062 VO-L ( REMOTE ) Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
• 180063 KU The Problem of Consciousness
• 180064 SE ( REMOTE ) Epistemic Relativism and Feminist Standpoint Theory
• 180068 SE ( MIXED ) Properties
• 180093 SE The Vienna Circle - An Introduction

M-10 Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Ontology (10 ECTS)

• 010351 VO Contemporary Philosophy - Heidegger and Early Greek Philosophy
• 090073 VO Thinking the World. Byzantine natural philosophy and theology of creation
• 180062 VO-L ( REMOTE ) Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
• 180063 KU The Problem of Consciousness
• 180065 KU Nothing
• 180066 SE Aristotle Physics II
• 180067 SE Phenomenology of the game - Concepts and phenomenon analysis
• 180068 SE ( MIXED ) Properties
• 180186 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) Current Developments in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Sciene

M-11 Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Culture, Aesthetics (10 ECTS)

• 010085 VO [ en ] Atheism
• 010088 VO Advanced Course Philosophical Theology
• 010092 VO ( MIXED ) Classical Writers of Philosophy of Religion
• 010106 SE ( MIXED ) The open artwork and the limits of interpretation. Aesthetics in Umberto Eco
• 060040 SE Modern Jewish Thought - An Introduction
• 090073 VO Thinking the World. Byzantine natural philosophy and theology of creation
• 090078 VO [ en ] The Ascetic Ideal in Byzantium and the Eastern Mediterranean: A Historical Introduction
• 180051 SE Media Workshop: hospitality
• 180056 VO-L The relevance of Chinese philosophy
• 180057 VO-L Discourses and ways of thinking in philosophy with a view to their intercultural relevance
• 180058 VO-L Philosophy of Gift in India
• 180061 VO-L Rethink Kant's Critique of Judgment in aesthetics, natural philosophy, systems theory
• 180067 SE Phenomenology of the game - Concepts and phenomenon analysis
• 180071 KU Philosophy of Film - Thinking with Hitchcock
• 180072 SE ( REMOTE ) Formulas of religion
• 180073 SE Aesthetics of the atmosphere
• 180074 VO-L Questions of Aesthetics 2 - What is the Sublime?
• 180088 SE Fundamental Questions of Existential Analysis - Overwhelming freedom - psychotherapy in the field of tension between responsibility and duty
• 180090 SE [ en ] Slavoj Zizek and the Arts
• 180091 VO-L Psychosomatics today - Psychoanalytic Perspectives
• 180162 SE [ en ] Readings in Performance Philosophy
• 180168 SE ( MIXED ) Buddhism in East Asia and its cultural-philosophical content
• 180178 SE Phenomenology and sociology of the body - Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu
• 230019 SE Selected Paradigms: Theories of cultural industries
• 230020 SE Selected Paradigms: Social Constructivism. Classical and Current Perspectives

M-12 Ethics, Applied Ethics (10 ECTS)

• 010066 VO ( MIXED ) Ethics II - Political Ethics and Social Ethics
• 180076 KU ( REMOTE ) Nature and climate ethics
• 180077 SE Cicero On duties
• 180078 SE Philosophical Anthropology and Moral philosophy
• 180080 SE Critique of White Reason - Immanuel Kant in the Context of Contemporary Debates
• 180081 SE Ethics and eros
• 180082 VO-L Current Aspects of Gender Ethics - Introduction to Philosophical Ethics in Gender Context
• 180084 SE Exclusion, Racism, Violence - Philosophical Perspectives
• 180088 SE Fundamental Questions of Existential Analysis - Overwhelming freedom - psychotherapy in the field of tension between responsibility and duty
• 180099 VO-L ( REMOTE ) Biological theories of aging - philosophical aspects of aging research
• 270177 VO+SE Ethics in Natural Sciences

M-13 Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Gender Theory (10 ECTS)

• 180051 SE Media Workshop: hospitality
• 180064 SE ( REMOTE ) Epistemic Relativism and Feminist Standpoint Theory
• 180082 VO-L Current Aspects of Gender Ethics - Introduction to Philosophical Ethics in Gender Context
• 180084 SE Exclusion, Racism, Violence - Philosophical Perspectives
• 180085 SE Michel Foucault - The Will to Knowledge. History of Sexuality 1
• 180086 KU Corporeality and body discourses
• 180087 KU Subjectification processes as an occurrence - Unterwerfung, Beleidigung, Verantwortung
• 180088 SE Fundamental Questions of Existential Analysis - Overwhelming freedom - psychotherapy in the field of tension between responsibility and duty
• 180089 SE [ en ] Contemporary Feminist Philosophy
• 180097 KU ( REMOTE ) HIV / AIDS - Philosophical, Historical and Sociological Perspectives
• 180164 SE Theories of Democracy of the Present - Diagnose, Theorie und Entwicklung
• 180178 SE Phenomenology and sociology of the body - Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu
• 180193 KU Enlightenment as criticism
• 210064 SE BAK9: Political Theories and Research on Theories - Anti-Semitism and middle East Conflict: Political Theories of Modern Antimodernism and Zionism

M-14 Contemporary Philosophy (10 ECTS)

• 010094 VO ( MIXED ) Intercultural Philosophy
• 010107 SE Karl Jaspers Philosophy (of Existence) in the mid 20th century
• 010351 VO Contemporary Philosophy - Heidegger and Early Greek Philosophy
• 180064 SE ( REMOTE ) Epistemic Relativism and Feminist Standpoint Theory
• 180071 KU Philosophy of Film - Thinking with Hitchcock
• 180073 SE Aesthetics of the atmosphere
• 180076 KU ( REMOTE ) Nature and climate ethics
• 180080 SE Critique of White Reason - Immanuel Kant in the Context of Contemporary Debates
• 180082 VO-L Current Aspects of Gender Ethics - Introduction to Philosophical Ethics in Gender Context
• 180087 KU Subjectification processes as an occurrence - Unterwerfung, Beleidigung, Verantwortung
• 180089 SE [ en ] Contemporary Feminist Philosophy
• 180090 SE [ en ] Slavoj Zizek and the Arts
• 180091 VO-L Psychosomatics today - Psychoanalytic Perspectives
• 180092 KU Modern Action theory
• 180097 KU ( REMOTE ) HIV / AIDS - Philosophical, Historical and Sociological Perspectives
• 180099 VO-L ( REMOTE ) Biological theories of aging - philosophical aspects of aging research
• 180164 SE Theories of Democracy of the Present - Diagnose, Theorie und Entwicklung
• 180175 SE [ en ] Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
• 180178 SE Phenomenology and sociology of the body - Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu
• 180186 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) Current Developments in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Sciene
• 230020 SE Selected Paradigms: Social Constructivism. Classical and Current Perspectives

M-15 Philosophy of Science (10 ECTS)

• 010117 VO Hermeneutics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
• 128304 AR [ en ] Philosophy of Language Science
• 180052 VO-L Innovation, cognition and knowledge generation - (summer course)
• 180053 SE Epistemologies of complexity
• 180091 VO-L Psychosomatics today - Psychoanalytic Perspectives
• 180093 SE The Vienna Circle - An Introduction
• 180095 SE [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Philosophy of Science Colloquium
• 180096 KU [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Big Data in Science
• 180097 KU ( REMOTE ) HIV / AIDS - Philosophical, Historical and Sociological Perspectives
• 180099 VO-L ( REMOTE ) Biological theories of aging - philosophical aspects of aging research
• 180175 SE [ en ] Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
• 180184 VO-L ( REMOTE ) Philosophy of Science and History of Science of Research in Psychoanalysis Part 2 - From the clinical to the empirical and interdisciplinary research.
• 180186 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) Current Developments in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Sciene
• 190025 VO Philosophy of Science and Educational Research Methods - Wissenschaftstheorie und Epistemologie der Bildungswissenschaft
• 270177 VO+SE Ethics in Natural Sciences
• 280506 VO [ de en ] ( MIXED ) PM-Nawi/PM-FnNawi From geozentic worldview to quantum cosmology (NPI)

Compulsory Modules (35 ECTS)

M-16 Individual Specialisation (15 ECTS)

• 180193 KU Enlightenment as criticism

M-17 Focused Research, Bachelor's Theses (20 ECTS)