The three-year course of study in Philosophy includes within it several research directions:

• epistemological
• historical-theoretical
• ethical-political
• psycho-pedagogical

Advances critical and in-depth knowledge of the history of philosophical and scientific thought through reading classic works and thematic exercises.

Prepares for the analysis of problems and the use of argumentative modes for the formation of critical judgment on the subjects under study.

Frontal lectures, seminar meetings and written reports on the main classical works.

Exercises on texts in the original language.

Participation in conferences organised by the Department of Antiquities, Philosophy and History (DAFIST) and the School.

• Secondary school teaching - continuing with the LM in Philosophical Methodologies - in the respective competition classes: A18 (Philosophy and Human Sciences, former 36A) and A19 (History and Philosophy, former 37A)
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• Publishing
• Public Administration
• Cultural Promotion Centres

• Bioethics, public ethics, work ethics, communication ethics
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• Analysis of the topics of the natural and logical-mathematical sciences, in the perspective
  Of a critical judgment on epistemological disciplines
• Analysis of the themes of the sciences of man and society, in order to learn to develop a critical judgment
  on psychological, pedagogical and sociological disciplines
• Analysis of the themes of the language and cognitive sciences
• Analysis of the philosophical themes of the communication and information sciences
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The headquarters of the School of Humanities and its related departments are located in the area around Via Balbi and Piazza della Nunziata. Some of these palazzi are historical palaces of the city of Genoa, known as 'Palazzi dei Rolli'.

For the distribution of the Departments see the acronyms:
DAFIST = Department of Antiquities, Philosophy and History
DIRAAS = Department of Italianistics, Romanistics, Antiquities, Arts and Entertainment
DLCM = Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

• via Balbi 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo): Chair, Aula Magna, classrooms number 1 to number 9, offices and offices of DAFIST and DIRAAS teachers, Library
• via Balbi 4 (Palazzo Balbi Senarega): Humanities Student Desk, classrooms E, F, G, H, M, N, P, DAFIST teachers' offices and studios, DIRAAS, Library
• via Balbi 6 (Palazzo Balbi Raggio): classrooms I, Q, R, S, Library of the School of Humanities
• via Balbi 30: DAFIST teachers' studios
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• via delle Fontane 10: Teaching Centre, classrooms A to M and Aula Magna, LaLim Laboratory
• piazza Santa Sabina 2: DLCM offices and teachers' studios, Library