Teaching Statement
I agree with Stanley Cavell’s “definition” of philosophy as education for the grown-ups. I thus regard teaching as an essential part of my research activity, taking the opportunity to learn and improve my skills in preparing classes and discussing with my students. I intend this to reflect on my teaching activity at two levels: as a process whereby students learn to critically engage in a new subject-matter, and as a process whereby the teacher himself acquires new perspectives and learns how to better sharpen his own philosophical skills.
Seminars I have taught
Teaching
Ruhr-Universität Bochum:
WS24/25
SS24
WS23/24
WS20/21
SS21
SS18
WS16/17
I agree with Stanley Cavell’s “definition” of philosophy as education for the grown-ups. I thus regard teaching as an essential part of my research activity, taking the opportunity to learn and improve my skills in preparing classes and discussing with my students. I intend this to reflect on my teaching activity at two levels: as a process whereby students learn to critically engage in a new subject-matter, and as a process whereby the teacher himself acquires new perspectives and learns how to better sharpen his own philosophical skills.
Seminars I have taught
Teaching
Ruhr-Universität Bochum:
WS24/25
- Ästhetik: Philosophie der Photographie, Graduate Seminar (BA)*
- “I, Me, Mine”: The Self from Kant to Freud, Wittgenstein, and Sartre, Postgraduate Seminar (MA/MSc Cognitive Science)
- Kant: Prolegomena, Graduate Seminar (BA) *
- Aesthetic Cognitivism: How the Arts Enhance our Understanding of the World (Postgraduate Seminar, MA/MSc Cognitive Science)
SS24
- Basics in Philosophy II: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Graduate Seminar (BA)
- Ethics and Society, Graduate Seminar (BA)
- Klassiker und aktuelle Probleme der theoretischen Philosophie, Postgraduate Seminar (MA) *
- Wirtschaft & Gesellschaft im Überblick: Studienkompetenz, Selbstentwicklung und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (Graduate Seminar, MA)*
WS23/24
- Seeing-As: Perception and Imagination from Kant to AI, Postgraduate Seminar (MA Phil, Msc CogSci)
- Descartes’ Meditationes de prima philosophia, Graduate Seminar (BA Phil, MA Phil) *
- Winter School Minds, Creativity, and Machines: Mapping the Imagination w/Dr Olga Katharina Schwarz (Germanistisches Institut) *
- Mind and Time: Perception and the Flow of Experience, Postgraduate Seminar (MA Phil, Msc CogSci)
- Ludwig Wittgensteins Über Gewißheit, Graduate Seminar (BA Phil, MA Phil) *
- Exercise: Introduction to Cognitive Science, Exercise to the Lecture for MSc CogSci Students
- Perceptual Learning, Postgraduate Seminar (MA Phil, Msc CogSci)
WS20/21
- Exercise: Introduction to Cognitive Science, Exercise to the Lecture for MSc CogSci Students
SS21
- Kant, die Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Graduate Seminar (BA Phil, MA Phil) *
- Philosophy of perception: Disjunctivism and the Nature of Hallucinations, Postgraduate Seminar (MA Phil, Msc CogSci)
- Epistemology: Understanding in Science and the Arts, Discussing Catherine Z. Elgin’s True Enough, Postgraduate Seminar (MA Phil, Msc CogSci)
- Einführung in die Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Graduate Seminar (BA Phil, MA Phil) *
- Philosophische Werkstatt (w/Elmarie Venter): two-days workshop on basic soft skills and argumentation theory *
- René Descartes: Skeptizismus, Methode, und das Cogito, Graduate Seminar (BA Phil, MA Phil) *
- Wilfried Sellars and the Myth of the Given, Postgraduate Seminar (MA Phil, Msc CogSci)
- John McDowell’s Mind and World, Postgraduate Seminar (MA Phil, Msc CogSci)
- Analytische Bewusstseinstheorien, Graduate Seminar (BA Phil, MA Phil) *
- Eine Einführung in die Wahrnehmungsphilosophie, Graduate Seminar (BA Phil, MA Phil) *
- Philosophy of Attention: Sebastian Watzl’s Structuring Mind, Postgraduate Seminar (MA Phil, Msc CogSci)
SS18
- Philosophische Probleme wissenschaftlicher Modelle, Graduate Seminar (BA Phil, MA Phil)*
- Teleosemantics: Karen Neander’s A Mark of the Mental (w/Prof. Tobias Schlicht), Postgraduate Seminar (MA Phil, Msc CogSci)
WS16/17
- Philosophie der Wahrnehmung: Eine Einführung, Postgraduate Seminar (MA Phil, Msc CogSci)*
- Wahrnehmungsgehalt. Ringvorlesung „Einführung in die Philosophie“ (BA and MA students)*
