This course will review parts of the history of ancient Greek mathematics, evaluate its characteristic features, attempt to explain them, and reflect on their relation to contemporary mathematics.

Contemporary universities combine traditions of academic freedom with traditions of expected political neutrality, of student and faculty activism with an ethos of separation from social demands, and a spirit of open scientific collaboration with actual restrictions and sanctions. In this course, we will consider the historical, philosophical, and social underpinning of these tensions.

This module is meant for additional reading, reflection, and project work on the course "Academic Freedom, Activism, and Sanctions". The precise content and outputs will be decided by the teacher and students.

This module is meant for additional reading, reflection, and project work on the course "Bruno Latour's Modes of Existence". The precise content and outputs will be decided by the teacher and students.

Bruno Latour's "an inquiry into modes of existence" is an ambitious book that offer a philosophical-scoiological approach to questions of science, technology, politics and economy. In this seminar, we will read some chapters of this book, and reflect on them critically.

Difference and Repetition is arguably Gilles Deleuze’s first Magnum Opus: a comprehensive presentation of his philosophy, engaging both western philosophy classics and his contemporary scientific breakthroughs. The seminar will follow the book to expose Deleuze’s ideas in their context. We will highlight Deleuze’s scientific inspirations and discuss his impact on the philosophy of science.

Errors, deceptions and lies are phenomena, which are part of science, its application and interpretation. This lecture-course of the lecturers of Knowledge-section of DGESS discusses these phenomena in different scientific disciplines, and different times and in different political contexts.

Reading and reflection on Karan Barad's and Deboleena Roy's new materialist feminist philosophies of physics, biology and the social.

This course will present an overview of feminist philosophies of science and technology and new materialist philosophies of science and technology

This course will review several historical episodes where economy shaped mathematics, and where mathematics re-shaped economy.

Hasok Chang's presents a new pragmatist philosophy of science, focusing on practical coherence and promoting pluralistic and anti-reductionst views of reality and truth. We will discuss and evaluate this philosophy and its implications. At the end of the course, we will discuss Nancy Cartwright's non-reductionist and pluralistic philosophy to complement that of Chang.

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.

Literature and mathematics may seem to be far apart. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that they are analogous in essential respects: both formalize and condense language; both develop narrative processes. In short: mathematics and writing, counting and storytelling (Zählen und Erzählen) are closely related processes.

An overview of Marxist social theory and epistemology as well as post-Marxist reactions (such as Frankfurt school, structuralist Marxism, Post-colonial theory, Feminist appraoches, Operaismo).

An overview of Marxist social theory and epistemology as well as post-Marxist reactions (such as Frankfurt school, structuralist Marxism, Post-colonial theory, Feminist appraoches, Operaismo).

This course will follow Michèle Friend's book "pluralism in mathematics". It will survey various mainstream philosophies of mathematics, and suggest a pluralist integration.