Courses Currently Taught (Universidad Católica de Chile)

Kant

Immanuel Kant is one of the most influential philosophers of the modern era. His Critique of Pure Reason asks: What can we truly know about reality? Can reason alone reveal the existence of God, the soul, or free will? Kant’s answer is no. We can only know the world as it appears to us, not as it is in itself.Yet Kant’s original insight is revolutionary: instead of resigning ourselves to the despairing thought that our experience is merely an illusion, we can investigate the way the mind must function in order to experience anything at all. In this way, we can discover how the world we construct for ourselves follows necessary rules and how we can distinguish, in a new way, what is objective from what is merely subjective.This course introduces Kant’s major arguments in the Critique of Pure Reason and explores their relevance through contemporary philosophical debates.

Modern Philosophy

The 17th and 18th centuries saw the rise of Modern Philosophy, shaped by two opposing schools of thought. Rationalists like Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz argued that reason alone can uncover deep truths about reality. Meanwhile, empiricists such as Locke, Berkeley, and Hume insisted that all knowledge stems from sensory experience, questioning our ability to grasp reality’s fundamental nature. These debates continue to shape philosophy today. This course examines their key arguments and explores pressing questions: What can we truly know? Is the mind separate from the body? Does God exist? Can free will exist in a universe governed by natural laws?

Philosophy and Feminism

This course examines key debates in feminist theory and movements, with a focus on internal tensions rather than external justifications. We explore fundamental questions, such as: What forms of oppression does feminism address? How do sex and gender differ? What does feminist justice look like from an intersectional perspective? How should feminism engage with autonomy, equality, difference, marriage, and sex work, among other topics? To explore these issues, we study leading feminist thinkers, including Judith Butler, bell hooks, Martha Nussbaum, Audre Lorde, Carole Pateman, Nancy Fraser, and Susan Moller Okin.

Philosophy of Death and Dying

This course explores profound questions about human mortality that have preoccupied philosophers for millennia. Is death truly the end, or could there be something beyond it? Is death bad for us? If so, why? If immortality were possible, would it be desirable? How should we respond to the death of others? What is the value of grief? What do the living owe the dead? We will address these and other questions by engaging with canonical texts from philosophers such as Epicurus, Lucretius, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer, as well as cutting-edge contemporary essays by leading experts in the field.

  • Applied Ethics

  • Advanced Normative Ethics

  • History of Modern Philosophy

  • Kant

  • Political Philosophy

  • Philosophy of the Emotions

  • Philosophy of Religion

  • Mind and World

  • Hume, Mill and Kant

  • Philosophy and Feminism

  • Philosophical Method

  • Rationalism and Empiricism

  • What is Philosophy for?

All Undergraduate Courses Taught to Date 

All Postgraduate Courses Taught to Date.

  • Aristotle´s Nichomachean Ethics

  • The imperative of enlightenment: Kant and his legacy

  • Agency and ethics

  • Kant on the unity of reason

  • Epistemic justice and the ethics of belief

  • Kant’s aesthetics

  • Philosophy of religion