C. Diploma Degree Programme in Philosophy

§ 3: First Stage of the Degree Programme

§ 3/1: Orientation Period

• 180069 VO History of Philosophical Ideas
• 180071 VO-L Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy
• 180072 VO-L Introduction to Practical Philosophy
• 180333 LPS Plato IV - Socrates the Educator
• 180334 LPS Immanuel Kant: The Contest of faculties Kant:<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Contest_o'>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Contest_o</a>
• 180335 LPS Reading Course - Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Introductory Passages)
• 180336 LPS Wittgensteins "About Certitute"
• 180423 IK Introduction to Scientific Work in Philosophy
• 180443 LPS Reading Course - Learning Philosophy - I. Kants Prolegomena to a future metaphysics as science
• 180523 LPS Aristoteles - Metaphysics: Books of Substance

§ 3/2: Required Courses

§ 3/2/1 History of Philosophy [Old Curriculum 2]

• 010071 VO History of Philosophy 2: Middle Ages
• 010290 VO History of Philosophy 3: Modern Philosophy
• 010351 VO Contemporary philosophy - Jean-Paul Sartre- Jürgen Habermas- Michel Foucault
• 180070 VO German Idealism
• 180339 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - German Idealism
• 180341 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - Rationalism and Empirism
• 180448 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180475 VO-L History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modernity) - Retracing Main Moments of Medieval and early Modern Philosophy
• 180477 VO-L History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modernity) - Islamic philosophy and its influence on the European Middle Ages
• 180508 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - The Dead Dogs of Philosophy: Spinoza, Hegel, Marx

§ 3/2/2 Metaphysics [Old Curriculum 3]

• 180344 PS History of Epistemology - Kant - Critique of pure Reason (tr. Dialectic)
• 180356 VO-L Kant - The Critique of pure Reason
• 180369 VO-L Logik und Metaphysik
• 180457 PS [ en ] British Empiricism

§ 3/2/3 Ethics [Old Curriculum 4]

• 180414 PS Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
• 180451 PS Introduction into Ethics - Aristotelian, Kantian and Utilitarian Approaches and their Topicality
• 180482 PS Introtuction into Ethics - Classical Texts from Kant to present
• 180483 VO-L The European Moralists - Texts and Concepts

§ 3/2/4 Epistemology [Old Curriculum 6]

• 180344 PS History of Epistemology - Kant - Critique of pure Reason (tr. Dialectic)
• 180351 PS What do we know about machines?
• 180353 PS Networks - philosophical implications
• 180354 VO Mind: An interdisciplinary approach. - A dialogue between philosophy of mind, psychoanalysis, and cognitive neurobiology
• 180404 PS Thinking about/in/by Media - Einführung in die Medientheorie/-philosophie
• 180405 PS The number you have called is not available - A Media History of the Telephone
• 180406 VO-L Hermeneutics and Phenomenology
• 180416 VO Introduction to Philosophy of Science
• 180457 PS [ en ] British Empiricism
• 180521 VO Kant`s Theory of Knowledge

§ 3/2/5 Logics [Old Curriculum 7]

• 180389 VO-GKL Basic Logic - (1. Teil: BA und PP)
• 180390 VO-GKL Basic Logic - (2. Teil: BA)
• 180391 UE Logic-exercise for teaching post candidate
• 180429 UE-GKL Beginning Logic

§ 3/2/6 Linguistic Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180338 VO Introduction to Philosophy of language

§ 3/2/7 Philosophy of Law and Philosophy of Politics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180115 VO Core concepts of the humanieties - History
• 180170 PS Europe as a Cultural Space - Between Unity and Diversity
• 180431 VO Life-world and Revolution - From Edmund Husserl and Jan Patocka to Václav Havel
• 180456 SE [ de en ] Introduction to Political Philosophy
• 180488 PS Historicity as Political Practice

§ 3/2/8 Philosophical Anthropology [Old Curriculum 8]

• 010069 VO Philosophical Anthropolgy
• 010265 SE Philosophical Anthropology and Evolutionary Theory
• 180141 VO The Indian Body - Tantric philosophies in India
• 180329 VO Why work? - - and why think about it?
• 180330 SE Sensual Cultures
• 180331 SE Elements of philosophical Anthropology - Philosophical Anthropology instead of Metaphysics?
• 180342 PS Nature and culture of thinking - Der Mensch als bio-psycho-soziales Lebewesen
• 180402 PS Race Critical Theories
• 180449 PS Cultural Hermeneutics - Oriental culture in the mirror of european art and philosophy

§ 3/2/9 Aesthetics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180142 SE Thomas Bernhard - His aesthetical system
• 180144 SE Poetics of the abatement - Trash, kitsch and abject art
• 180363 VO Philosophy of Expression
• 180386 VO Thomas Bernhard - His aesthetical system
• 180442 VO Art as a radical criticism of time - Freuds theory of dream and the surrealistic spectacle of cruelty

§ 4: Second Stage of the Degree Programme

§ 4/1 Required Courses

§ 4/1/1 History of Philosophy [Old Curriculum 2]

• 010071 VO History of Philosophy 2: Middle Ages
• 010290 VO History of Philosophy 3: Modern Philosophy
• 010351 VO Contemporary philosophy - Jean-Paul Sartre- Jürgen Habermas- Michel Foucault
• 180070 VO German Idealism
• 180339 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - German Idealism
• 180341 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - Rationalism and Empirism
• 180448 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180475 VO-L History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modernity) - Retracing Main Moments of Medieval and early Modern Philosophy
• 180477 VO-L History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modernity) - Islamic philosophy and its influence on the European Middle Ages
• 180508 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - The Dead Dogs of Philosophy: Spinoza, Hegel, Marx

§ 4/1/2 Metaphysics [Old Curriculum 3]

• 180172 SE Metaphysics and Ontology - The ontological argument and its critique
• 180358 SE Hegel's Phenomenology of the mind - From consciousness to self-consciousness
• 180393 SE Nature and culture - Some problems of mental growing
• 180419 SE Free Actualities - The Emergence of Substantiality in Hegel's Logic
• 180502 SE Reading Spinoza - Academia and Avant-garde
• 180524 SE Schelling - Of Human Freedom
• 180536 SE Body and Soul - a philosophical issue

§ 4/1/3 Ethics [Old Curriculum 4]

• 180309 SE Applied ethics - Politics, business and environment
• 180370 SE [ en ] Renaissance Politics: Machiavelli
• 180385 PRI [ de en ] Research Seminar - Practical Philosophy
• 180392 SE Acknowledge and development - Kognitive und moralische Probleme der Ontogenese des Geistes
• 180418 SE Ethics and Philosophy of Religion - Kant - Critique of Practical Reason
• 180455 VO Ethics requires feeling - Ethics requires feeling - The importance and influence of feelings and emotions in the doctor patients relationship with focus on oncology patients
• 180483 VO-L The European Moralists - Texts and Concepts
• 180484 SE Phenomenology of Violence
• 180486 SE [ de en ] Faces of Justice - Liberalism and its Critics
• 180503 SE Aging-Disease-Dying - Philosophical, medical and ethical problems in geriatrics
• 180509 SE Nietzsche's Critique of Morals
• 180518 SE Classical Reading in Ethics
• 180542 SE Existential Analysis - Bedeutung des Selbstseins in der Praxis der Psychotherapie

§ 4/1/4 Epistemology [Old Curriculum 6]

• 180306 SE Michel Foucault
• 180360 SE Epistemological basic notions - (vor allem Allgemeines, Idee, Wissenschaft, Dialektik, Vernunft/Geist - inkl. Eristik und Sophistik von Ansehen und Sieg bis hin zu Eifersucht und Eitelkeit)
• 180393 SE Nature and culture - Some problems of mental growing
• 180472 SE Crises of Representation

§ 4/1/5 Logics [Old Curriculum 7]

• 180243 SE Is God possible? (Selected chapters in formal logic) - Logic and Religion
• 180428 SE Logic and classical philosophical Texts

§ 4/1/6 Philosophy of Nature [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180352 SE Aristoteles, De anima
• 180450 SE Interdisciplinary seminar with physics
• 180507 VO-L Philosophy of nature
• 180528 VO Theories of Evolution - presuppositions, positions, critics

§ 4/1/7 Non-European Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180262 SE Seminar for Comparative Philosophy
• 180361 VO Zen and Philosophy - Philosophical Anthropology
• 180411 SE Philosophy of History - Historical Thinking in Non-European Traditions
• 180440 VO Introduction to Chinese Thought - China and the west

§ 4/2: Required Elective Courses

§ 4/2/1 Philosophy of Religion [Old Curriculum 8]

• 010349 VO Intercultural philosophy - Religionsphilosophische Strömungen Indiens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
• 010350 SE Doctoral school: Critique of reason, ethics and concepts of God
• 180125 VO Christianity and philosophy
• 180243 SE Is God possible? (Selected chapters in formal logic) - Logic and Religion
• 180090 VO The Conception of God
• 180418 SE Ethics and Philosophy of Religion - Kant - Critique of Practical Reason

§ 4/2/1 Philosophy of History [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180115 VO Core concepts of the humanieties - History
• 180411 SE Philosophy of History - Historical Thinking in Non-European Traditions

§ 4/2/2 Social Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180473 SE Judith Butler's Politics of the Performative - Die Politik des Performativen bei Judith Butler
• 180532 VO-L Political to chart in the 21th century - Der Sinn der Politik in Freiheit - Hannah Arendts politisches Erbe
• 190060 SE Michel Foucault: History of the Gouvernementality II
• 180541 SE [ en ] Politics, Social Philosophy

§ 4/2/2 Philosophical Women's and Gender Research [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180439 SE Transformations of feminitiy - Transformations of feminitiy - - Hölderlin, Hegel, Derrida, Levinas, Kofman
• 180452 VO The Drive - Metamorphoses of a psychoanalytic Concept
• 180485 SE Beauvoir's Essay
• 180510 SE Women Philosophers - Biographical Studies and the Development of Scientific Disciplines

§ 4/2/3 Philosophy of Economics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180310 VO Philosophy and Economies
• 180311 SE Philosophy and Economics

§ 4/2/3 Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology [Old Curriculum 5]

• 070223 SE Probleme und Themen der Wissenschaftsgeschichte - Wissenschaftstheorie im 20. Jahrhundert
• 180350 SE Philosophy of Science - Denken in offenen Systemen, Cognitive Science, Ethik und Transdisziplinarität
• 180394 SE Engage Science - Zum Verhältnis von Epistemologie und Gesellschaftstheorie
• 180416 VO Introduction to Philosophy of Science
• 180498 SE Intercultural Philosophy - The Viennese Program
• 180499 SE Introduction to Philosophy of Science in TCM Part I
• 180500 SE Introduction to Philosophy of Science in TCM Part II
• 180514 SE [ de en ] Interdisciplinary Knwoledge Lab - Observing, Reflecting and Creating Radically New Knowledge
• 180515 SE [ en ] Seminar Philosophy of Science 2 - Project Seminar
• 180531 SE Motion without measure - Visualisierung - Technik - Utopie

§ 4/2/3 Philosophy of the Media [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180367 VO-L Culture and Databases
• 180530 SE Think Tanks - Places of Thought

§ 4/2/4 Hermeneutics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180312 SE Peter Handke and Phenomenology
• 180406 VO-L Hermeneutics and Phenomenology

§ 4/2/4 Philosophy of Culture [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180474 SE [ fr ] The importance of the concret - The French phenomenology about the role of the concrete
• 180533 VO Jewish Thought after Nietzsche - Zur jüdischen Nietzsche-Rezeption in der Moderne
• 180534 SE The Strangeness of the Human factor in Culture - Theodor W. Adorno und die Krise der Kultur

§ 4/2/4 Intercultural Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180262 SE Seminar for Comparative Philosophy
• 180361 VO Zen and Philosophy - Philosophical Anthropology
• 180444 VO-L A Philosophy of Difference - Philosophy of Interculturality And Intercultural Philosophy
• 180498 SE Intercultural Philosophy - The Viennese Program

§ 4/2/5 Project Seminar

• 180368 SE Interactive Plato: The Republic (2) - Project-seminare
• 180514 SE [ de en ] Interdisciplinary Knwoledge Lab - Observing, Reflecting and Creating Radically New Knowledge
• 180515 SE [ en ] Seminar Philosophy of Science 2 - Project Seminar
• 180540 PRI What is research in philosophy?

§ 2/5: Courses in a foreign Language

• 180370 SE [ en ] Renaissance Politics: Machiavelli
• 180438 UE Greek Terminology
• 180456 SE [ de en ] Introduction to Political Philosophy
• 180457 PS [ en ] British Empiricism
• 180486 SE [ de en ] Faces of Justice - Liberalism and its Critics
• 180541 SE [ en ] Politics, Social Philosophy