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

The teacher establishes a specific class agreement with attending students who undertake in active partecipation working, in groups in laboratory mode. Learning monitoring activities and specific forms of certification and training evaluation are planned for them.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

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

There are three parts:

1. Critical thinking: the key access to philosophy

2. Truth's issue: the condition for philosophy

3. Critical paths in real context

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Students that will attend the lessons

Basic work: A. MODUGNO, Pensare criticamente. Verità e competenze argomentative, Carocci, Roma 2018

To final oral exam, choose one of these works:

- PLATONE, Teeteto

- AGOSTINO, Contro gli Accademici 

- R. DESCARTES, Meditazioni metafisiche

B. Students that will not attend the lessons: 

1. Works to study:

- A. MODUGNO, Pensare criticamente. Verità e competenze argomentative, Carocci, Roma 2018

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

2. Choose one of these works:

- PLATONE, Teeteto

- AGOSTINO, Contro gli Accademici 

- R. DESCARTES, Meditazioni metafisiche

- E. HUSSERL, La filosofia come scienza rigorosa