We will address the question of what exactly constitutes African and Africana philosophy and how it offers an original perspective on philosophy. The focus will then be on the systematic approaches to knowledge and morality of contemporary authors.

It is surprisingly difficult to spell out what social philosophy is, which methods it is to use fruitfully and what its topics are. In this seminar we will cover different approaches and topics in contemporary social philosophy. Different methods - phenomenology, analytical philosophy and especially critical theory will be used to address various topics.

This module is meant for additional reading, reflection, and project work on the course 'Contemporary Social Philosophy'. The precise content and outputs will be decided by the teacher and students.

This seminar examines a variety of contemporary theories of cooperation from the past forty years, drawing mainly on philosophy, but also on political science, psychology, sociology, and other fields. We will explore how cooperation arises, how it is practiced and sustained, why it matters for the sciences, and how it is being reshaped by technological change.

In this course, doctoral students are sensibilized to ethical issues in the sciences. After a general introduction to ethics as well as to ethics in the sciences, selected topics of scientific integrity will be dealt with in an exemplary way. Discoursive as well as performance techniques are used to convey the materials.

This joint colloquium of the Knowledge Section faculty consist of guest lectures by invited scholars on diverse current research topics in the history, philosophy, literature, and social studies of science and technology.

This joint colloquium of the Knowledge Section faculty consist of guest lectures by invited scholars on diverse current research topics in the history, philosophy, literature, and social studies of science and technology.

This joint colloquium of the Knowledge Section faculty consist of guest lectures by invited scholars on diverse current research topics in the history, philosophy, literature, and social studies of science and technology.

How should we live together—within political communities as well as between communities? In this lecture, basic questions of political philosophy and social philosophy and their answers are introduced systematically and historically.

What should I do? What is a good life? How should we shape our coexistence with other people - within political communities as well as between communities? And: What role does thinking about such questions play? In this course, basic questions of practical philosophy and their answers are introduced systematically and historically.

Can a war ever be morally justified?The focus of the seminar is the controversial debate in contemporary philosophical thinking about the moral problem of war, humanitarian intervention, the "new wars", terrorism and targeted killing.

This course discusses ethical issues relating to life and death, e.g. reproductive technology, euthanasia, organ transplantation, genetic engineering, animal and nature conservation, human enhancement, animal welfare, nature conservation, biodiversity and our relation to nature more generally.

This seminar will provide a historical overview of the philosophy and philosophical ethics of technology and a systematic discussion of important positions in contemporary philosophy.

In this lecture, basic questions of political philosophy and their answers are introduced systematically and historically. Fundamental political traditions are addressed, such as liberalism, cosmopolitanism, republicanism, conservatism, and feminist political philosophy. A focus is on theories of democracy.

This module is meant for additional reading, reflection, and project work on the course 'Political Philosophy with a Focus on Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere'. The precise content and outputs will be decided by the teacher and students.