I am particularly interested
in issues located at the intersection of metaphysics and
ethics, such as objectivity in morals, free will and
responsibility, the role of ontology in the justification
of norms etc. Apart from a number of contemporary authors,
the philosophers I am concerned with most are Aquinas and
Kant. I am trying to approach their thoughts with
systematic considerations in mind, but in my opinion aiming
at historical accuracy is indispensable for a fruitful
engagement with the philosophical masters of the
past.
1) Areas of teaching
• History of Philosophy
• Metaethics and Moral Theory
• Metaphysics
• Contemporary Philosophy of Law
• Political Philosophy
2) Current fields of research
• Early modern scholastic philosophy
and its influence on Enlightenment thinkers
• Metaphysical foundations of Kant's moral philosophy
3) Recently taught courses
• Selected Topics in Kant's Transcendental Idealism
and Contemporary
Metaphysics
• Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
• Analytic vs. Continental: Michael Friedman's "A
Parting of the Ways"
• Foundations of Kant's Moral Philosophy I&II
• Kant: Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen
Vernunft
• Kant: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft
• Kant: Gemeinspruch
• Kant: Zum ewigen Frieden
• Kant: Die Metaphysik der Sitten
• Kant: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
• Molina: Concordia
• Aquinas: Treatise on Law
• Free Will and Determinism
• Virtue ethics
• Advanced Readings in Ethics
• Introduction to Moral Theory
• Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics
