Teaching
At the University of Hamburg I have taught the introductory lectures in political philosophy and in ethics, and seminars on the ethics and epistemology of artificial intelligence, on philosophy and economics, and on the history of moral philosophy. I supervise PhD, MA and BA theses.
From 2014 to 2022 I designed and led the Finance & Philosophy module at the University of Bayreuth: interdisciplinary block seminars for advanced BA and MA students in Philosophy & Economics and BA Economics, most of them co-taught with Carsten Jung, together with two lecture series with external speakers on “Achieving Financial Stability” and “Debt and Democracy”.
Before that I taught moral philosophy, political philosophy, medieval and early modern philosophy in the supervision format at Oxford and Cambridge, and gave lectures on moral philosophy for the MBA and EMBA programmes at Judge Business School, Cambridge. I hold the UK Teaching Certificate for Higher Education.
Please get in touch if you are interested in the syllabi or reading lists for any of the courses below.
I recommend the following guide to writing philosophy essays: Tackling the Philosophy Essay: A Student Guide (Cambridge Faculty of Philosophy).
Courses at the University of Hamburg
Winter 2025
Lecture: Introduction to Political Philosophy (DE)
Winter 2025
Seminar: Issues in the Ethics and Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence (EN)
Summer 2025
Lecture: Introduction to Ethics (DE)
Summer 2025
Seminar: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Philosophy and Economics: Capital (EN)
Summer 2025
Seminar: Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (DE)
Summer 2025
Seminar: Epistemic Bubbles and Echo Chambers: The Ethics of Polarized Knowledge Environments (EN)
Earlier courses at the University of Bayreuth
Winter 2022
Paradigms, policies and power (EN)
Summer 2022
Epistemic Virtue for Organizations (EN)
Winter 2021
The Philosophy, Sociology and Economics of Class (EN)
Summer 2021
The Ethics of Capitalism (EN)
Winter 2020
Debt, inflation and employment after the pandemic (EN)
Summer 2020
Designing policies for a just climate transition (EN)
Winter 2019
The Future of Capitalism (EN)
Summer 2019
Big Corporations and Social Justice (EN)
Winter 2018
The Political Economy of the Eurozone (EN)
Summer 2018
Capital, Finance, and Justice: Political Philosophy after Piketty (EN)
Winter 2017
What to Believe Now? Applied Epistemology, Information Markets, Networks
(EN)
Summer 2017
The Ethics and Governance of Algorithmic Decision Making (EN)
Winter 2016
Finance and Social Justice (EN)
Summer 2016
The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EN)
Winter 2015
The Complexity Science Approach to the Financial System (EN)
Summer 2015
Debt and Democracy (EN)
Winter 2014
Achieving Financial Stability (EN)
Winter 2013
Risk in Finance (EN)
Summer 2012
The Philosophy and Economics of Sovereign Debt Crises (EN)