Areas of competence:
Kant's philosophy
Early modern philosophy
Philosophy of science
Post-Kantian/continental philosophy
Spring 2025: The Plurality of Worlds from Leibniz to Kant. Hauptseminar
Leibniz, Wolff, Crusius and Kant on possible and actual worlds
Spring 2024: Early Modern Philosophy (B-KUL-W0W32a). BA lecture course
Bodies and minds in Descartes, Elisabeth, Cavendish, Malebranche, Spinoza, Conway, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume
Autumn 2022-Spring 2023: Kant's Political Philosophy. Open Seminar (B-KUL-W0R13A). Research MA seminar
Kant's Idea of a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), On the Common Saying: That May be Correct in Theory, but it is of No Use in Practice (1793), Toward Perpetual Peace (1795), and The Metaphysics of Morals (1797)
Autumn 2021: Spinoza and Nietzsche. Metaphysics: Advanced Course (B-KUL-W0Q13A). MA lecture course
Metaphysics and ethics in Spinoza’s Ethics (1677) and Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-5)
Autumn 2020-Spring 2021: Responses to Hegel and Marx in twentieth-century France. BA Paper with Seminar (W0AN5a). Seminar and paper supervision
Responses in twentieth-century French philosophy to the legacies of Hegel and Marx, with a focus on Simone Weil, Georges Bataille, Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault
Autumn 2019: History of Philosophy: Modern Philosophy II (B-KUL-W0AO0A). Core BA course
Survey of works by Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche
Autumn 2018: The concept of 'world' in early modern philosophy. Modern Philosophy (Texts): Seminar (B-KUL-W0EC2B). BA seminar
Transformations of the concept of world in the early modern period: Bruno, Descartes, Leibniz, Du Châtelet, Baumgarten, and Kant
Spring 2018: Kant on physics and psychology, within Research Seminar: Metaphysics and Modern Philosophy (B-KUL-W0R02A). Research MA seminar
Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786) and the Paralogisms chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/87)
Autumn 2017: History of Philosophy: Modern Philosophy II (B-KUL-W0AO0A). Core BA course
Survey of works by Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche
Spring 2025: Critique of the Internet. BA seminar course
Kant, Marx, Lefebvre, Arendt, Boris Groys, and Shoshana Zuboff
Spring 2024: Philosophical Concepts: Space and Time. BA seminar course
Newton, Leibniz, Clarke, Kant, and Foucault
Spring 2023: The Social and the Public in the Internet Age. MA seminar course
Kant, Arendt, Huey P. Newton, and Hito Steyerl
Spring 2023: Passions and affects in the history of philosophy. BA seminar course
Descartes, Spinoza, Freud, Deleuze, Ahmed, and Barlant
Spring 2022: Metaphysics and Critique. BA seminar course
Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Marx, Beauvoir, and Fanon
Summer 2023: Invited text seminar leader at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy, 17-21 July
For Angelica Nuzzo's course, The End of the World/The End of Cosmology – With Kant: A New Beginning?