Teaching

Teaching at the Chair of Philosophy and Decision Theory

The topics and aims in teaching at the Chair are closely related to its research profile. Since the Chair's areas of activity are broad, not all of them can be covered by the Chair's teaching in any given academic year. Rather, the range of courses offered depends on staffing and may vary from year to year. There will be a particular emphasis on research-led teaching, especially at the master's and doctoral level, with topics chosen to be close to the Chair's ongoing research. Examples of topics covered by the Chair's teaching include the following:

1. Theories of rational choice and reasoning; formal epistemology; and formal ethics, including applications to artificial intelligence.
2. Voting and social choice theory; judgment aggregation; theories of democracy; formal political theory; and social epistemology.
3. The philosophy of mind and action; the mind-body problem; free will and responsibility; consciousness and intentionality; collective action and group agency; causation and explanation in the social sciences; and reduction and emergence in the social sciences.

The precise set of courses offered each semester will be announced in due course.