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At the Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Winter 2020/21: Einführung in die Philosophie der Antike und des Mittelalters, Vorlesung

                          Platons Menon und Phaidon, Übung

                          Reason, Causes, and Explanations in the history of philosophy and contemporary debates, M.A. Seminar

                          Kolloquium zur Antiken Philosophie

Summer 2020    Einführung in die Vorsokratische Philosophie
                           Platons Timaios
                           Ancient Notions of Space

At St. Andrews University

Spring 2020    The Enlightenment, Lectures introducing the Enlightenment movement and on Hume and scepticism about religious beliefs
                        Existentialism, Lectures on Heidegger's Being and Time
                        Tutorials for Heidegger's Being and Time
Autumn 2019  Introduction to Ancient Philosophy, Lectures on Plato and Aristotle
                        Tutorials for the Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
                        Mind and World, Lectures on the Mind-Body Problem, Time, and Causation
Spring 2019    Honours Lecture Course on Classical Philosophy: Plato's Timaeus and Sophist
                        Tutorials for the Honours Lecture Course on Classical Philosophy
Autumn 2017  Introduction to Ancient Philosophy, Lectures on Plato and on Hellenistic Philosophy
                        Tutorials for the Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
                        MLitt Course on Aristotle on the First Cause of Motion and Change (Co-taught with Sarah Broadie).
Autumn 2016  Introduction to Ancient Philosophy, Lectures on Plato and on Hellenistic Philosophy
                        MLitt Course on Aristotle on Motion, the Infinite, and Place/Space (Co-taught with Sarah Broadie)

At the HU-Berlin
Summer 2016 Proseminar Antike Raumkonzeptionen
Proseminar Einführung in die Vorsokratische Philosophie
Hauptseminar Platons Timaios
Doktorandenkolloquium
At St. Andrews University
Spring 2016 Honours Lecture Course on Classical Philosophy: Plato's Timaeus and Philebus
Tutorials for the Honours Lecture Course on Classical Philosophy
Autumn 2015 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy, Lectures on Plato and on Hellenistic Philosophy
MLitt Course on Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle (Co-taught with Sarah Broadie).
Supervision of an Undergraduate Thesis by Beatrice Staffini on Antirealism in Mathematics
Start of Supervision of Lorenzo Lazzarini's PhD thesis on Time in Plato and of Louys Gackstetter's MPhil thesis on the Symposium
Spring 2015 Supervision of two MLitt Theses on Aristotle's account of time in the Physics
Autumn 2014 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy, Lectures on Plato and on Hellenistic Philosophy Tutorials for the Introduction to Ancient Philosophy MLitt Course on Ancient Notions of Space Supervision of an Undergraduate Thesis by Chloe Apostolatos on Plato's Theory of Forms
Autumn 2014 Honours Lecture Course on Classical Philosophy: Plato's Timaeus and Sophist Tutorials for the Honours Lecture Course on Classical Philosophy
Autumn 2013 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy, Lectures on Hellenistic Philosophy Tutorials for the Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
At Yale University
Spring 2013 Seminar: Notions of Time in Ancient Philosophy and Literature Directed Studies: Philosophy from Descartes to Parfit and Korsgaard
Fall 2012 Seminar: Plato's Timaeus Directed Studies: Ancient Philosophy
Spring 2012 Seminar: Ancient Philosophy of Science Directed Studies: Philosophy from Descartes to Ayers Graduate student Independent Study (for Classics Credit) on the Presocratics
Fall 2011 Lecture Course: Aesthetics – Sensuality and Rationality Directed Studies: Ancient Philosophy
Spring 2011 Seminar: Work in Progress for graduate students (co-taught with Zoltan Szabo) Directed Studies: Philosophy from Descartes to Williams
Fall 2010 Seminar: Plato's Sophist (co-taught with Verity Harte) Directed Studies: Ancient Philosophy
Spring 2009 Seminar: Philosophy of Mathematics in Ancient Greece Directed Studies: Philosophy from Descartes to Russell
Fall 2008 Seminar: Plato's Parmenides (co-taught with Verity Harte) Directed Studies: Ancient Philosophy
Spring 2008 Seminar: Time and Space/Place in Plato and Aristotle Directed Studies: Philosophy from Descartes to Wittgenstein
Fall 2007 Directed Studies: Ancient Philosophy
At the University Urbana-Champaign
  Dissertation Supervisor "On Musical Representation" – Brandon Polite (defence in Nov. 2010)
Spring 2007 PHIL 410 - The Presocratics: The beginning of Western Philosophy as the discovery of the difference between knowledge and perception GRK 520/PHIL 501 - Seminar on Late Plato
Fall 2006 PHIL 203 - Ancient Philosophy, Survey CLCV 220 - Origins of Western Literature, Topic: Ancient Notions of Time Independent Study on Aristotle
Spring 2006 PHIL 423 - Philosophy of Art GRK 202 - Classical and Koine Greek
At St. Andrews University 2002

Tutorials on Plato and Aristotle

At the FU Berlin
  Tutorien on the following subjects:
summer semester 2000 S. Kierkegaard: "Krankheit zum Tode"
summer semester 1999 Plato: "Sophist"
winter semester 1998/99 M. Heidegger: "Sein und Zeit"
summer semester 1998 G.W.F. Hegel: "Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik"
winter semester 1997/98 G.W.F. Hegel: "Einleitung zu Phänomenologie des Geistes"
summer semester 1997 Aristoteles: "Metaphysik" book A, G, E and M. Heidegger: "Was ist Metaphysik?"
At the Summer Academies of the "Verein zur Förderung hochbegabter Schüler":
summer 2001 "Menschenbilder im Wandel der Geschichte am Leitfaden des Freiheitsbegriffs"
summer 1999 "Philosophische Fragen zur Kunst".