A. Bachelor's Degree Programme Philosophy

1. Orientation Period

M-01 Methods and Ideas

• 180247 IK Methods and Disciplines of Philosophy (Lecture Series)
• 180248 IK Methods and Disciplines of Philosophy (Lecture Series)
• 180251 VO History of Philosophical Ideas
• 180252 VO-L Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy
• 180253 VO-L Introduction to Practical Philosophy
• 180255 VO-L Introduction to Practical Philosophy

M-02 Learning to do Philosophy

• 180090 IK Introduction to Scientific Work in Philosophy
• 180212 UE Greek Terminology
• 180217 LPS Hannah Arendt - 'The Human Condition' and 'On Thinking'
• 180218 LPS Introduction into Phenomenology - Positions, Basic Concepts, and Perspectives
• 180277 LPS I.Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals - Doctrine of Virtue
• 180346 LPS Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

2. Required Modules

M-03 Language and Thought

• 180192 UE-GKL Exercise in Logic
• 180193 VO Discourses On Discourses - On The Genealogy of Hermeneutical Theories and Methods
• 180199 IK Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation
• 180200 IK Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation
• 180201 IK Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation
• 180234 VO Philosophy of Language

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

• 180237 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180278 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - Philosophy after Hegel. Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche
• 180281 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180282 VO-L History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modernity)
• 180283 VO-L History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modernity)
• 180284 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - History of Philosophy - From Beginning of the Modern Age to Kant

M-05 Reality and Truth

• 070223 SE Wissenschaftsgeschichte - Wissen und Gesellschaft: Wissenschaftstheorie in historischen Beispielen.
• 180197 SE Hegel and Analytic Philosophy - McDowell's 'Mind and World' - A 'Turning Point in Philosophy'?
• 180198 PS Being or Having a Body? - About Scientific and Technological Interventions
• 180236 VO Science and structuralism
• 180241 SE Leibniz and Kant
• 180246 SE History of Realism in the 20th Century - realist and antirealist positions in the metaphysical and scientific realism debate
• 180274 SE Basic Writings of Phenomenology - Husserls "Cartesian Meditations"
• 180280 SE Plato III - Eros
• 180285 PS History of Epistemology - Kant - Critique of pure Reason (tr. Aesthetics, Analytic)
• 180286 VO-L Logics and metaphysics
• 180290 SE Social Epistemology
• 180292 VO Epistemology
• 180382 VO-L The will to semblance - On truth and lies
• 180414 PS Plato's dialogue Crito
• 180429 VO-L Philosophy of biological media

M-06 Good and Evil

• 180142 PS Metaethics and Normative Ethics
• 180182 VO Power of Judgment and Practice
• 180204 PS Introduction into Ethics - Aristotelian, Kantian and Utilitarian Approaches and their Topicality
• 180205 PS Ethics and sports - ethical issues in professional & leisure sports, in physical education as well as relating to economic & social policy, reflecting interaction between individuals their surrounding
• 180207 PS [ en ] Intoduction to Ethics
• 180208 PS Introtuction into Ethics - Classic Positions from Kant to present
• 180220 VO-L [ de en ] Freedom and Recognition - in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir
• 180226 SE Diversity, Gender, Queer Theory - The importance of Intersectionality and Social Justice in diversity, gender and queer theory
• 180227 SE Social philosophy as social dramaturgy
• 180238 VO Ethics requires feeling - Ethics requires feeling - The importance and influence of feelings and emotions in the doctor patients relationship with focus on oncology patients
• 180294 PS Schopenhauer`s Groundwork of Ethics
• 180296 SE The autonomy of ethics
• 180297 VO-L Introduction into Ethics
• 180298 SE Acknowledgement: Mind-society-morality - From Hegel to G. H. Mead
• 180419 SE Metaethics
• 180428 PS Ethics - Nikomachische Ethik

M-07 Technology and Media

• 180299 VO-L Open Source Philosophy
• 180300 PS The Calculating/Calculated Animal - Eine Zoologie der Computertechnik
• 180303 VO The Evolution of Cooperation - Axelrod et passim
• 180411 VO Modern Times - Technology, Society and Philosophy
• 180429 VO-L Philosophy of biological media
• 180430 PS The philosophical animal of Vilem Flusser. Vampyrotheutis infernalis - Vampyrotheutis infernalis. Lekürekurs

M-08 The Own and the Alien

• 180190 VO Introduction to Chinese Thought - Mencius and Xun Zi. Chinese Buddhism
• 180191 VO-L Patterns of thinking in diff. cultures - Intercultural Philosophy
• 180213 VO Philosophy in Latin America - Identity, comparison and interaction between Latin American and European philosophical thinking.
• 180223 VO-L The Strange and the Other - On Difference and Hybridity.
• 180229 PS The one' own and the strange - The one' own and the strange in the French Phenomenology
• 180232 PS Hermeneutics/Social Praxeology of Cultur - Castoriadis and Bourdieu
• 180305 VO Zen and Philosophy - Philosophical Anthropology
• 180306 PS Urbanity
• 180387 PS Race Critical Theories
• 180425 VO-L Philosophy and interculturalism in Latin America

3. Elective Modules

M-09 Mind and Language

• 180115 VO Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction - Philosophical Concepts of Cognitive Science
• 180186 SE The Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers
• 180222 SE Weaker than S5
• 180308 SE Jacques Derrida - Limited Inc
• 180310 VO Mind: An interdisciplinary approach. - A dialogue between philosophy of mind, psychoanalysis, and cognitive neurobiology
• 180326 VO Cognitive Science - Foundations of Cognitive Science
• 180328 SE In addition to growing of mentality - Genes, brains and mental structures
• 180395 VO What is Mathematics?

M-10 Art, Culture, Religion

• 180256 VO The Conception of God
• 180257 SE The question on god
• 180258 VO Friedrich Schlegel - An Evolution
• 180261 UE German Romanticism - Philosophy, Art and Politics
• 180263 VO Creation of The World or Globalization - Jean-Luc Nancy
• 180371 VO [ en ] Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari
• 180392 SE The Sublime - On the limits of subjectivity and the problem of heterogeneity
• 180410 SE Approaches to enlightenment in Islamic philosophy - Approaches to enlightenment in Islamic philosophy: Ibn Tufail\'s concept of the pre-religious autonomy of philosophy
• 180415 SE Thinking heretically with Meister Eckhart
• 180416 VO The erotic desire in philosophy
• 180426 SE Religion in contemporary philosophy

M-11 Contemporary Thought

• 180245 VO Against the Dissolution of Truth - History and Relevance of Post-Structuralism for Contemporary Thought
• 180266 SE Viewpoints - Visual pleasure, control, responsibility
• 180371 VO [ en ] Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari
• 180379 SE Seminar for Comparative Philosophy

M-12 Applied Ethics

• 180178 SE Environmental ethics - Environmental ethics between art, technique and nature
• 180196 SE Human Rights - Grundlagen und Entwicklung der Menschenrechte sowie deren Anwendung in der modernen Gesellschaft
• 180240 SE Life-Forms - Life-Forms - The Concept of Life between Biopolitics and an Aesthetic of Existence
• 180268 SE abortion
• 180269 VO Age(ing)
• 180368 UE Problems of sovereignty as legal form - The statehood with Kelsen, Arendt, Foucault and Agamben
• 180393 SE Aging-Disease-Dying - Philosophical, medical and ethical problems in geriatrics
• 180420 SE Technicsethics

M-13 Gender and Society

• 090071 KO Thukydides`politische Philosophie
• 180214 SE Jacques Lacan and the Sexual Difference - Jacques Lacan and the Sexual Difference - Or: The Subject in The Order of Imaginary, Symbolic and Real
• 180235 VO-L The Development of Marxs Philosophy - from "Pariser Manuskripte" to "Kapital"
• 180270 VO Philosophy and Economics - Life and adventures of Homo Oeconomicus, Esq.
• 180271 SE Philosophy and Economics - Laws
• 180272 SE Problems of social philosophy
• 180427 PS Women and philosophy in Latin-American discourse
• 190183 SE Michel Foucault: History of Governmentality I. - Governing men

M-14 Human and Nature

• 180275 SE Elements of Philosophical Anthropology - M.Heidegger and E.Tugendhat
• 180291 SE Charles Darwin and the consequences
• 180295 VO-L Core concepts of the humanities: Life
• 180310 VO Mind: An interdisciplinary approach. - A dialogue between philosophy of mind, psychoanalysis, and cognitive neurobiology
• 180361 SE Reading Technoscience - Bruno Latour
• 180431 SE Non-darwinistic biology and forms of knowledge