Topics & Approach

My teaching focuses on metaphysical and epistemological topics in the history of Modern Philosophy from Descartes to German Idealism.

I can also teach metaphysics, epistemology, and 20th-century continental philosophy.

I aim for my courses to be spaces for discussion and debate that connect contemporary issues with the history of philosophy.

Experience

  • University of Fribourg

    • On Descartes and Kant (2021, French)

    • On Time (2017, German)

  • University of Fribourg

    • Introduction to Hegel’s Metaphysics (2021, French)

    • The Metaphysics of Possible Worlds: Leibniz and Lewis (2019, French)

    • Proofs and Refutations of the Existence of God (2018, German)

    • Sense and Reference from Frege to Kripke (2018, German)

    • Self-knowledge in Plotinus and Schelling (2016, with J. Tusi, German)

    • Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (2015, in German)

  • University of Fribourg

    • Spinoza’s Rationalism (with G. Soldati & P. Engisch, 2019, German)

    • Kant: Reason and Normativity (with G. Soldati, 2018, German)

    • Intentionality (with G. Soldati, 2017, German)

    University of Basel

    • Adorno, Negative Dialectics (with M.N. Sommer, 2016, German)

  • University of Basel

    • Schelling, On the Essence of Human Freedom (2015, German)

    • Hegel, Philosophy of Right (2014, German)

    • Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics (2014, German)

    • Hegel’s philosophy of absolute spirit (2013, German)

    • Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (2013, German)

    • The Beginning of Philosophy: Presocratics to Aristotle (2012, German)

    • Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy (2012, German)

    • Aristotle, Metaphysics (2011, German)

    • Hobbes, Leviathan (2011, German)

  • Political and Social Philosophy, Philosophical Academy Lucerne, 2012-2015 (3x, German)

    Philosophy for non-philosophers, 2016-2021 (3x, French)

  • More than 50 proseminar, seminar and bachelor theses.