Claus Beisbart

Teaching

• Summer term 12
  
  Introduction to Practical Philosophy II
  
  Political Contractualism
  
  J. Rawls, A Theory of Justice
  
  Philosophical Writing
  
  Research Seminar (with M. Herrmann)
  
  
• Winter term 2011/12
  
  Introduction to Practical Philosophy I
  
  Karl R. Popper
  
  Philosophical Writing (Ethics and Economics)
  
  Basic Texts from Theoretical Philosophy: Human Knowledge
  
  Research Seminar (with M. Herrmann)
  
  
• Summer term 2011
  
  Introduction to Practical Philosophy
  
  Fichte, Wissenschaftslehre
  
  Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics"
  
  Research Seminar (with M. Herrmann)
  
  
• Winter term 2010/11
  
  Plato's Early Dialogues
  
  Aristotle's "Metaphysics" and Present-day Metaphysics
  
  
• Summer term 2010
  
  Topics from the Philosophy of Science
  
  Introduction into Logic
  
  
• Winter term 2009/10
  
  From Metaethics to Moral Philosophy: R. M. Hare
  
  Happiness and Welfare as Standards for Acting (with M. Herrmann)
  
  
• Summer term 2009
  
  Introduction into Practical Philosophy
  
  Explanation and Causality
  
  
• Winter term 2008/09
  
  no courses taught, since on leave for a visiting fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh
  
  
• Summer term 2008
  
  Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason"
  
  Philosophy of Science
  
  
• Winter term 2007/08
  
  Basic Texts from Theoretical Philosophy
  
  Collective Rationality, Collective Action, Collective Responsibility (with M. Herrmann)
  
  Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment (University of Iceland, in English)
  
  
• Summer term 2007
  
  The Philosophy of Science (Introduction)
  
  Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment
  
  
• Winter term 2006/07
  
  Basic Texts from Theoretical Philosophy
  
  Utilitarianism and Its Critics
  
  
• Summer term 2006
  
  From Descartes to Kant: Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ethics in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy
  
  Scientific Realism
  
  
• Winter term 2005/06
  
  Introduction into Epistemology
  
  John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  
  
• Summer term 2005
  
  Introduction into Ancient Ethics
  
  
• Winter term 2004/05
  
  Introduction into Kant's Ethics

Update 3/2012