Homepage of Johannes Mierau — Teaching

Courses I offer in summer semester 2023:

Theoretical philosophy I – Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics

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Current Issues and Further Questions: Philosophy and Society – Logic, Argumentation Theory and Fallacy in Philosophy

link to course material (on moodle UW/H)


Courses I have previously taught include:

Theoretical philosophy I

an introductory course on epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, science and mind

Philosophy of science

a seminar on philosophy of science and evidence-based decision making for management and PPE master students

Critique of Pure Reason

a reading course of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Being and Nothingness

an introduction to Sartre's Being and Nothingness, and on existence in contemporary analytic philosophy

Interpretation course: Basic texts on epistemology of the modern era

methodological course on reading techniques and text interpretation of philosophical writings in co-teaching with Tobias Häusler

Philosophy of chance

a seminar on different perspectives on chance in the philosophy of science

Critical thinking and formal logic

lectures and tutorials on crititcal thinking and formal logic for philosophers

Argumentation theory

a tutorial on informal argumentation theory for students of practical philosophy

Introduction to game theory

basics of game theory for philosophy and economics students

Tutorial to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

a tutorial class on exercises for a theoretical physics course on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics