Teachings
Teachings at the University of Twente (2022-)
For the Environmental Values and Sustainable Transformations Minor, I am co-coordinator and instructor for all the study units: Foundations in Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Transformations, Human-Nature Relations, Sustainable Consumption and Food Justice, Climate Ethics and Climate Justice, and Sustainable Technologies.
For the Creative Technology Bachelor program, I teach the Reflection module on topics such as the ethics of Big Data, ethical extensionism, and the ethical cycle, in collaboration with Dr. Alexandria Poole and Sr. Dominic Lenzi.
For the Mechanical Engineering Bachelor programme, I teach the Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer module on topics such as engineering ethics, space ethics, and the ethics of whistleblowing, in collaboration with Dr. Michael Nagenborg.
For the International Business Administration Bachelor programme, I taught in 2023 the ChangeL module on business ethics and related research fields such as responsible innovation, in collaboration with Dr. Alexandria Poole.
For the Creative Technology Bachelor program, I taught in 2023 the Reflection 1 module, on topics such as ethical theories, the ethical cycle, and the ethics of the Internet of Things, in collaboration with Dr. Alexandria Poole.
For the Mechanical Engineering Bachelor programme, I taught in 2022–2023 Energy and Material module on stakeholder analysis, responsible innovation, and sustainability ethics.
For the Bachelor Honours programme, I taught in 2022–2023 the Innovation Project 1 module on sustainability ethics.
Teachings at the University of Warwick (2021-2022)
I taught four seminars on the history of political thought for the undergraduate module PO201 Political Theory from Hobbes: Seeking Freedom and Equality.
I aslo taught three seminars on contemporary political theory for the undergraduate module PH338 Principles of Political Economy: Philosophy & Politics.
Teachings at Kiel University (2018-2020)
I taught four seminars in English at Kiel University in the Master programme in environmental philosophy
You can access the syllabus for each course by clicking on the title of the teaching
Teachings at the University of Lausanne (2012-2017)
I taught three BA seminars in French for first-year students:
Classical texts in modern political philosophy
Locke’s Second Treatise of Government
Rousseau’s Social Contract
I also taught 16 courses and seminars in French with my PhD co-supervisor, Simone Zurbuchen. A short description of these teachings can be found here.
MA seminars:
Political philosophy: from global to intergenerational justice
Intergenerational justice
Just war theories: historical and contemporary approaches
The problem of supererogation
Is man naturally sociable?
BA seminars:
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and its contemporary readings
What is political liberty? Classical readings
John Locke’s theory of property
Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy
John-Stuart Mill
BA Lectures
Human rights: theories, challenges and critiques
Introduction to modern political philosophy
Theories of sovereignty
Political liberalism and its critics
The philosophy of human rights
Main ethical theories in the 19th and 20th century