Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Philosophie

Klassische Deutsche Philosophie, Philosophie der früheren Neuzeit, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, antike Philosophie, Metaphysik.

• seit 04/2019 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Philosphie Universität Potsdam
• 2011-2019 Ph.D. in Philosophie an der Johns Hopkins University
• 2017-2018 visiting scholar an der Universität Tübingen
• 2011-2014 M.A. in Philosophie an der Johns Hopkins University
• 2009-2011 M.A. in Philosophie an der Texas A&M University
• 2000-2005 Spezialstudium an der Staatlichen Universität Südural, Tscheljabinsk, Russland

(1) "A Priori Philosophy of Nature in Hegel and German Rationalism.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2022, 30 (5): 797-817, (with Lorenzo Sala).

(2) “Hegel’s Metaphysics of Nature.” European Journal of Philosophy, 2022, 30(2): 778-92.

(3)  “Logical and Natural Life in Hegel.” European Journal of Philosophy, 2022, 30 (1): 129-47.

(4) “Hegel’s Anti-Reductionist Account of Organic Nature.” Intellectual History Review 2021, 31 (3): 479-494.

(5) “Chemistry and Schelling’s Answer to the Antinomy of Reflective Judgment.” Kant e-Prints 2020, 15 (3): 35-50.

(6) “Hegel on the Impotence of Nature.” Hegel Jahrbuch2019 (1): 300-305.

(7) "Schelling on Understanding Organisms.’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy 2017, 25 (6): 1180-1201.

(1) Review of John Zammito, The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Philosophy in Review 40 (3): 135-137.

(2) Review of Paula Órdenes and Anna Pickhan (eds.), Teleologische Reflexion in Kants Philosophie (Springer VS, 2019). Kantian Review 25 (3): 508-513.

(3) Review of Andrea Gambarotto, Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization: Philosophy of Nature and the Rise of Biology in Germany (Springer, 2018). Philosophy in Review 39 (2): 69-71.

(4) Review of Ina Goy, Kants Theorie der Biologie, Kantian Review 23 2018, (3): 496-500.

(5) Review of Julia Peters, Hegel on Beauty, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 2018, 36 (3): 630-3.

(6) Review of John Sallis, The Return of Nature: On the Beyond of Sense, Philosophy in Review 2017, 37(4): 160-2.

(7) Review of James Kreines, Reason in the World: Hegel´s Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal, Philosophy in Review 2016, 36 (3): 124-6.

(1) ‘Leibniz and Hegel on Intelligibility of Nature,’ Hegel and Early Modern Philosophy, Heidelberg University, November 2021

(2) ‘One precise way in which Hegel improves on Kant's Theoretical philosophy’, V-NAKS Incubator Series, July 2021.

(3) ‘Dialectic of the Teleological Power of Judgment,’ online conference ‘Language and Aesthetic Judgment in Kant’, Universität Potsdam, July 2021.

(4) ‘Hegel and the Rationality of Nature,’ online conference ‘Nature in German Idealism’, LMU, April 2021.

(5) ‘Logical and Natural Life in Hegel,’ Forschungskolloquium Klassische Deutsche Philosophie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, December 2019.

(6) ‘Scientific and Manifest Images and Hegel's Philosophy of Nature,’ Contemporary Relevance of Hegelian Naturalism: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Outcomes, Parma, Italy, June 2019.

(7) ‘Hegel and Methodological Naturalism,’ Kolloquium des Instituts für Philosophie, Potsdam, Germany, June 2019.

(8) ‘Kantian and Hegelian Natural Teleology,’ 8th Edition of the Multilateral Kant Colloquium: Kant and the Contemporary World, Catania, Italy, October 2018.

(9) ‘Hegel on the Ohnmacht der Natur,’ 32nd International Hegel Congress, Tampere, Finland, June 2018.

(10) ‘Hegel’s Logic as a Limiting Case of Transcendental Philosophy,’ Transcendental Turn in Contemporary Philosophy-3: The Nature and the Specificity of Transcendental Philosophy, Moscow, April 2018.

(11) ‘Fruitfulness of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature,’ Bucharest Graduate Conference on History and Philosophy of Science: Methodology, Experimental Practices and Concept Formation, Bucharest, March 2018.

(12) ‘Schelling's Transformation of the Antinomy of Reflective Judgment,’ Society of German Idealism and Romanticism Inaugural Conference, University of Chicago, October 2016.

(13) ‘Is Chemistry a Science? Schelling’s Speculative Unification of Chemistry and Mechanics,’ Nature and the Philosophy of Nature in German Idealism and Romanticism, The University of Sydney, June 2015.

(14) ‘Moral Improvement in Kant and Schiller,’ Roundtable with Christoph Menke, Johns Hopkins University, March 2015.

(15) ‘Schelling’s Theory of Organism and Ecological Thinking,’ 3rd Annual Meeting of The North American Schelling Society, Bard College,August 2014.

(16) ‘Philosophical Activity and Unreflective Life in Pyrrhonian Skepticism,’ 31th Annual Meeting of The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP), Fordham University, October 2013.

(17) ‘Schelling’s Conception of the Individual in the First Outline,’ Pittsburgh Summer Symposium in Contemporary Philosophy (Schelling and Naturphilosophie), Duquesne University, August 2013. 

(18)  ‘Thumos in Plato’s Republic,’ 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP), Fordham University, October 2012.

(19)  ‘From Individuality to Universality: the Role of Aesthetic Education in Kant,’ Syracuse University Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Syracuse University, April 2011.

• 09/2018 Arthur Lovejoy Dissertation Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
• 08/2017 DAAD Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates and Young Academics and Scientists, Universität Tübingen, Germany
• 2016-2017 Miller Prize, the annual prize for the graduate student essay of an outstanding quality, Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
• 2016 Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
• 2012-2013 Miller Prize, the annual prize for the graduate student essay of an outstanding quality, Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
• 2011-2014 George Owen Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
• 2009-2011 Fulbright Scholarship, Texas A&M University
  

SoSe 2022

Phänomenologie des Geistes
Realism and Anti-Realism in Philosophy of Science

WiSe 2021/22

Naturphilosophie des Aristoteles und ihre Kritiker
Leibnizs Philosophie

SoSe 2021

Probleme der Philosophie und Wissenschaft
Kant und Schelling über Natur und Erkenntnis

WiSe 2020/21

Körper-Geist Problem von Descartes bis Hegel
Spinzas Philosophie

SoSe 2020

Philosophie und Wissenschaft in der frühen Neuzeit
Kant über das Schöne und Erhabene

WiSe 2019/20

Kants transzendentaler Idealismus
Hume and Humeanism

SoSe 2019

Introduction to Descartes, Universität Potsdam
Philosophy and Science in Early Modern Period, Universität Potsdam
Schelling: Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit (Lektürekurs) , Universität Potsdam

SoSe 2017

Is There Progress in Science?, Johns Hopkins University
Introduction to Formal Logic, Johns Hopkins University, als graduate teaching assistant

WiSe 2016/17

Philosophy of Art: A Historical Introduction, Johns Hopkins University

SoSe 2016

Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, als graduate teaching assistant

WiSe 2015/16

What is Art for? Topics in Aesthetics, Johns Hopkins University
Introduction to Formal Logic, Johns Hopkins University, als graduate teaching assistant

SoSe 2015

Introduction to Metaphysics, Johns Hopkins University, als graduate teaching assistant

WiSe 2014/15

Introduction to Greek Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, als graduate teaching assistant
Problems in Philosophy of Biology: Evolution and Ecology, Johns Hopkins University

SoSe 2014

Can Science Explain Everything?, Johns Hopkins University, als graduate teaching assistant

WiSe 2013/14

Introduction to Philosophy of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Introduction to Greek Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, als graduate teaching assistant