Teaching

​​MA Seminar: Topics in Contemporary AI ethics: AI, Consciousness, and New Types of Moral Agents and Moral Patients (summer term 2025); co-taught with Prof. Dr. Sven Nyholm 
In this seminar, we will read and discuss recent work within the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) on whether AI technologies can be a new form of moral agents. That is, we will consider whether AI technologies (e.g. self-driving cars, military robots, large language models, recommender systems, etc) can make moral decisions and/or perform moral actions. We will also consider whether AI technologies could be - or should ever be - considered a new form of moral patients with a significant form of moral status. That is, we will consider whether AI technologies should ever be treated with moral consideration, and if so, why? Our discussion of these questions about whether AI technologies could be a new form of moral agents and/or moral patients will have a special focus on whether any existing or future AI technologies could have some form of consciousness.
 

 MA ​​Seminar: Minds & Machines (summer term 2024, 2025); co-taught with Dr. Jurgis Karpus (course organiser). 
This seminar explores selected topics where philosophy meets game theory, robotics and AI (contributed topics: stored minds and artificial understanding). 
 

Neurophilosophy lectures (Summer term 2024,2025); co-taught with Prof. Dr. Ophelia Deroy 
This lecture series explores key topics in philosophy of neuroscience (contributed topics: animal sentience, computationalism: models of the mind, theories of consciousness). 
 

MCN- LMU blockseminar meta-cognition in non-human animals (winter term 2023)​