Starting from the origins of modern science and its differentiation from philosophy, the course aims to provide students with epistemological assumptions and methodological knowledge for understanding and analyzing social sciences.
The aim of the course is to provide the tools to know and understand the fundamental phases of evolution of scientific reflection, the discussion on logic and scientific method, the application of the general principles of epistemological and methodological analysis to specific problems of social Sciences .
The course objectives will be aimed at understanding the epistemological status, the characters and the methods of social sciences. The discussions and controversies that take place between the philosophers and social scientists about gnoseological and methodological issues will be reconstructed in historical and problematic way.
Traditional lectures. For students attending the course, part of the program will be held at a seminar on topics agreed upon by students' interests. During the course thematic workshops will be organized.
Reconstructed the origins of social sciences, debates between the scholars and the theoretical schools of social sciences will be analyzed and interpreted. The historical contexts, the ideological characters and the political interconnections of the theories will be highlighted in the different phases of this comparison.
Suggested texts -T.BENTON, I. CRAIB, Filosofia della scienza sociale. I fondamenti filosofici del pensiero sociale, a cura di A. Cerroni, Torino, UTET, 2010
A reading chosen between the following texts: -E. DURKHEIM, Le regole del metodo sociologico -E.. DURKHEIM, Il suicidio: studio di sociologia -E. DURKHEIM, Le forme elementari della vita religiosa -M. WEBER, Il metodo delle scienze sociali -M.WEBER, L'etica protestante e lo spirito del capitalismo -Istituto per la ricerca sociale di Francoforte, Lezioni di sociologia, a cura di M. Horkheimer, Th.W. Adorno -Th.W. ADORNO, M.HORKHEIMER, Dialettica dell'illuminismo - M. HORKHEIMER, Studi di filosofia della società - J.HABERMAS, Storia e critica dell'opinione pubblica, 1990, 2° ed. - J. HABERMAS, L'inclusione dell'altro. Studi di teoria politica
Students who do not attend the course must also study 3 chapters chosen in this text: - Verità e forme del potere nella riflessione politica contemporanea, a cura di M. A. Falchi, Firenze, CET, 2013
Ricevimento: Monday, 10-12 a.m. Dipartimento di scienze politiche (DISPO) Piazzale E- Brignole 3 a, Torre centrale (5th floor) By appointment mafalchi@unige.it
MARIA ANTONIETTA FALCHI (President)
ANDREA CATANZARO
CARLO MORGANTI
STEFANO PARODI
GIACOMO TARASCIO
Philosophy of the social sciences
http://www.aulescienzesociali.unige.it/orari/scpol_cds.php
PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Oral exam
The final evaluation takes into account the results of the seminar work during the course.
