OVERVIEW

The course’s main goal is give experience of some of philosophical skills. Also, reading philosophical works and not scientific or theoretical texts, teacher intends to explore truth's issue.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course intend to foster skills and tools learning, for reflection and reasoning concerning philosophical area but also crossing them. The main goals are: - Explore the most important speaking forms, in each area of knowledge and use of language, linked to truth issue - Analyze and make experience of philosophical discussing forms’, in relationship with her basics ideas and requirements of scientific and common speeches - Learning to analyze speeches critically linked to requirements and reasoning processes, to develop research-reasoning answer to conceptual issues of philosophical sense, but not only.

TEACHING METHODS

Combination of traditional lectures and textual analysis and discussion, in little and big groups.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course intends to explore truth’s issue and some of philosophical skills:

1. To be able to question: key factors in truth’s issue

2. To be able to relate and argue: premises and instruments of speaking  

3. To be able to infer and decide: reasoning’s efficiency, truth and correctness

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Students that will attend the lessons

Indications to three ongoing written texts will be given during the lesson.

To final oral exam, choose one of these works:

- PLATONE, Fedro or Teeteto or Protagora

- AGOSTINO, Contro gli Accademici 

- R. DESCARTES, Meditazioni metafisiche

- J. LOCKE, Saggio sull'intelletto umano

- I. KANT, Fondazione della metafisica dei costumi or Prolegomeni ad ogni metafisica futura che vorrà presentarsi come scienza

- F. NIETZSCHE, Sull'utilità e il danno della storia per la vita  

- E. HUSSERL, La filosofia come scienza rigorosa 

- L. WITTGENSTEIN, Tractatus logico-philosophicus

- H. G. GADAMER, Che cos'è la verità. I compiti di un'ermeneutica filosofica 

B. Students that will not attend the lessons: 

1. Works to study:

- A. COLIVA, E. LALUMERA, Pensare. Leggi ed errori del ragionamento, Carocci, 2006

- F. PAOLI, C. CRESPELLANI PORCELLA, G. SERGIOLI, Ragionare nel quotidiano. Argomentare, Valutare informazioni, prendere decisioni, Mimesis, 2012

- D. MARCONI, Per la verità. Relativismo e filosofia, Einaudi, 2007

2. Choose one of these works:

- PLATONE, Fedro or Teeteto or Protagora

- AGOSTINO, Contro gli Accademici 

- R. DESCARTES, Meditazioni metafisiche

- J. LOCKE, Saggio sull'intelletto umano

- I. KANT, Fondazione della metafisica dei costumi or Prolegomeni ad ogni metafisica futura che vorrà presentarsi come scienza

- F. NIETZSCHE, Sull'utilità e il danno della storia per la vita  

- E. HUSSERL, La filosofia come scienza rigorosa 

- L. WITTGENSTEIN, Tractatus logico-philosophicus

- H. G. GADAMER, Che cos'è la verità. I compiti di un'ermeneutica filosofica 

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

FRANCO BOCHICCHIO (President)

ALESSANDRA MODUGNO (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Start of class: 5th October 2017

End of class: 7th December 2017

Class schedule

CRITICAL THINKING AND ARGUMENTATION

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

A. Students that will attend the lessons

Three ongoing written text and final oral exam

B. Students that will not attend the lessons 

Oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral exam aims at verify:

1. subject's knoledge  

2. issues understanding and connecting

3. infering, debating, personal reworking

Exam schedule