Teaching and Supervision

Ursula Renz supervises Bachelor's and Master's theses and dissertations in the fields of history of philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, cultural philosophy and moral psychology.

Teaching

Ursula Renz has taught at the Universities of Zurich and Klagenfurt, ETH Zurich, Roskilde University, the University of Constance and the Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon.

Overview of Ursula Renz's courses at the University of Graz

Supervision

Dissertations at the University of Graz

  • Oliver Istvan Toth: Sensory and Conceptual Content in Spinoza's Philosophy of Mind (Supervisor: Ursula Renz; Second supervisor: Mogens Lærke, ENS Lyon/Maison Française d'Oxford)
  • Philip Waldner: Spinoza on the forces of language: a political perspective (supervisor: Ursula Renz; second supervisor: Michael Della Rocca, Yale University)

Dissertations and second supervisions at other universities

  • Roman Schmidt: Freedom of the will, time and possibility following Spinoza's 'Ethica' (working title, primary supervision at the University of Klagenfurt)
  • Reinhold Wieser: Sigmund Freud's Reception of Kant (working title, second supervision at the University of Klagenfurt)
  • Marion Blancher: La possibilité de l'engagement chez Spinoza : Comment repenser les modalités temporelles de la liberté? (working title, second supervision at the ENS Lyon)

MA theses at the University of Graz

  • David Schilhan: Über die Selbstreflexion der Vernunft - Was die Reflexion auf die Antinomien der reinen Vernunft für die Selbstreflexion der Vernunft leistet.
  • Stefan Johann Rathofer: Schiller's unsuccessful sensual-objective approach in the "Kallias Letters".
  • Matteo Ruggeri:Naturalistic Anthropology and its Implications for Political Theory: A Comparison of the Approaches of Thomas Hobbes and Baruch de Spinoza.
  • Maria-Bernadette Prassl:Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative and the golden rule of the Bible in the discrepancy between faith and reason.
  • Namita Herzl: The multidimensionality of Spinozistic love in the Ethica.

Completed dissertations at the University of Klagenfurt

  • Bernhard Ritter: Transcendental illusion and the "bewitchment of our understanding by means of our language": Kant and the later Wittgenstein (completed in 2018)
  • Thomas Hainscho: The Description of the Human Body. On the history of man as machine (graduated 2020)

Completed BA, MA and diploma theses at the University of Klagenfurt (selection)

  • Thomas Hainscho: Destroying illusory concepts. Fritz Mauthner's criticism of language (diploma thesis, 2012)
  • Gerald Eschenauer: Augustinus' De Magistro as rhetorical criticism (diploma thesis, 2012)
  • Stefan Tschemernjak: Personal identity. Remarks on the Concept of Consciousness in John Locke (MA thesis 2017)
  • Namita Herzl: On the fear of death and the indestructibility of our true nature (BA thesis 2018)
  • Gunter Preiml: Attempt to rehabilitate the concept of common-sense egoism (MA thesis 2019)
  • Martin Moser: Hume's scepticism (BA thesis 2013)

Participation in habilitation procedures

  • Karl Reitter: Self-determination and the capacity to act. On the foundations of ethics in Marx and Spinoza
  • Hajo Greif: Environments of Intelligence: From Natural Information to Artificial Interaction
  • Volker Munz: Concept, Consciousness and Meaning. On the relationship between language, the mental and the object of reference (completion of the process in the current semester)
  • Pascal Sévérac: L'AFFECT ET LE CONCEPT Spinozisme, âge classique et pensée contemporaine (external commission member with short review, ENS Lyon, completion of the procedure in November 2018)
  • Martin Weiss: PHYSIS and TECHNE Anti-reductionist aspects and biopolitical implications of modern biotechnologies using the example of genetic analyses and synthetic biology (completed in spring 2019)

Group project supervision at Roskilde University

  • Time-consciousness. A presentation and critique of Husserl's phenomenology of the consciousness of internal time.Spring term 2009, Roskilde University, Project supervision
  • The formation of personal identity.Spring term 2009, Roskilde University, Project supervision
  • Space & Time : Kant's Transcendental Idealism.Spring term 2009, Roskilde University, Project supervision
  • Antipsychiatry.Spring term 2009, Roskilde University, Project supervision
  • Kierkegaard's concept of the self.Spring term 2009, Roskilde University, Project supervision
  • Animal citizens.Spring term 2009, Roskilde University, Project supervision
  • Locke and Quine on our concepts of external objects.Fall term 2008, Roskilde University, Project supervision
  • How to read the bible ? Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise.Fall term 2008, Roskilde University, Project supervision
  • Metaphors and ideology.Fall term 2008, Roskilde University, Project supervision
  • Adam Smith about sympathy as the source of moral agency.Fall term 2008, Roskilde University, Project supervision
  • Religion and the foundation of morality.Fall term 2008, Roskilde University, Project supervision