Teaching

Philosophy is dialogue.

I have taught since 2010 at four universities with different teaching cultures: Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LMU Munich, and Bamberg, in every format from the one-to-one tutorial to the compulsory lecture course, at BA and MA level and in teacher-training degrees. At Oxford and in Jerusalem I taught in English; at Bamberg I have given lecture courses and seminars in English regularly since the winter semester of 2024/25.

Lecture courses

  • Introduction to Predicate Logic – University of Bamberg, from winter semester 2026/27. Voluntary continuation of the compulsory logic course.
  • Introduction to Formal Logic (compulsory) – University of Bamberg, every summer semester since 2023.
  • What is Truth? – University of Bamberg, winter semester 2025/26, in English, with Andrea Vestrucci (Applied Computer Science). For students of philosophy, computer science, and linguistics.
  • What Are Numbers and What Should They Be? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics – University of Bamberg, summer semester 2025.
  • Introduction to Formal Languages. Applications and Philosophical Questions – University of Bamberg, winter semester 2024/25, in English, with Andrea Vestrucci.
  • Introduction to Philosophy (compulsory) – University of Bamberg, winter semester 2023/24.
  • Origins and History of Analytic Philosophy – University of Bamberg, winter semester 2022/23.

Seminars

  • What is Jewish Philosophy? – University of Bamberg, winter semester 2026/27, with Susanne Talabardon (Jewish Studies). Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem, Strauss, Arendt, Levinas, Hans Jonas, Kofman, Taubes, Susman.
  • The Big Questions – University of Bamberg, winter semester 2025/26, with Christian Illies.
  • Classic Texts in Philosophy of Language – University of Bamberg, winter semester 2024/25, in English.
  • Basic Themes of Metaphysics – University of Bamberg, winter semester 2023/24.
  • What is Identity? – University of Bamberg, winter semester 2022/23.
  • Knowledge and Reality – LMU Munich, winter semester 2019/20.
  • The Great Divide. The Analytic and Continental Traditions – LMU Munich, summer semester 2019.
  • God, Belief, Justification – LMU Munich, winter semester 2018/19.
  • Indispensability Arguments for Realism – LMU Munich, summer semester 2018.
  • From Existence to Expression – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, winter semester 2015/16.
  • Mathematics, its Foundations, and their Implications – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, summer semester 2014.
  • Aesthetics and Critical Philosophy – University of Oxford, Trinity College, 2010/11.

Reading tutorials

One-to-one tutorials on philosophical classics, on the Oxford and Cambridge model, now established at Bamberg as a format of its own: shared reading, a weekly one-to-one meeting, and the stepwise development of an essay. Texts so far: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations; Edith Stein’s Zum Problem der Einfühlung; Spinoza’s Ethics; Descartes’s Meditations; Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals.

Writing courses and colloquia

A compulsory essay-writing workshop in the foundational module at Bamberg (since winter 2025/26), which takes students from a first vague idea to a finished essay; an introduction to academic work at LMU Munich; and a student colloquium for BA and MA candidates.

Supervision

  • Doctorates. Irene Lo Faro, Silence as a Means of Expression. Considerations from the Perspective of Philosophy of Language (first supervisor, since 2024). Co-supervision of the philosophical and ethical aspects of a doctorate in psychology (since 2025). External examiner for a doctorate at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (2020).
  • Habilitation. Member of two habilitation mentoring committees.
  • Theses. Three MA and eight BA theses at Bamberg and LMU Munich.

Students interested in writing a thesis with me are welcome to get in touch.