My belief is that philosophy is best taught through the method of its first teacher: the Socratic Method. No matter whether philosophy is taught in a large class setting, in a smaller seminar setting, in interdisciplinary contexts, or in a one-on-one tutorial setting, the Socratic Method provides the surest approach. Sustained discussion through probing questions is the most productive way of understanding, teaching, and doing philosophy.
This philosophy of teaching philosophy reflects the distinctive methodology of philosophy itself: philosophising always requires reflection from first principles. Thus, the Socratic Method derives from the need for anyone engaging in philosophical activity to learn to form their own questions and make up their mind.
I teach at the University of Tübingen in philosophy, in the cognitive science programme, and in the Max Planck International Graduate School in the various neuroscience programmes. Previously I have taught at UCL, Birkbeck, the University of London, and also courses at the University of Granada, Spain, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, and University of Miskolc, Hungary.
Lectures: Introduction to Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Philosophy of Intelligent Systems, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Psychology,
Undergraduate seminars: Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Action, Aesthetics, Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Science
Undergraduate tutorials/supervision: Aesthetics, Philosophy of AI, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Logic
PhD and MA seminars: Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Thought and Action, Cognitive Evolution: Cultural and Social Learning, Philosophy of AI and AI Ethics, Conceptions of Mind: the History of the Study of Mind in the Western and other Traditions, Philosophy of Learning, Philosophical Issues about Deep Learning, Cumulative culture: Social learning and Cultural evolution, Comparative philosophy of mind, Evolution of mind and culture, Embodiment and Grounded Cognition: Foundations and Limits, Ancient and Contemporary Action Theory, Metaphysics and the Theory of Content, Consciousness, Rationality of Animals, Predictive Coding, Body and Self, Person and Self, Embodied Agency, Philosophy of Developmental Psychology, Personal and Sub-personal Explanations, Modularity and Mental Architecture, Consciousness and the Neurosciences, Body Perception, Decision Making, the Senses, Perception and Action, Consciousness in Action
Research supervision: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Action, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Biology, Aesthetics, Embodied Cognition, Moral Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience of Body and Action, Philosophy of AI, Ethics of AI
Director of Summer Schools:
IUC Cross-modal Perception Spring School, Dubrovnik (3-8/4/2017)
Action Summer School, Tübingen (20-24/4/2015)
CEU Summer University ‘Problems of the Self’, Budapest (25/6-5/7/2012)