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 critical thinking and 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

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

The course pursues these objectives of the UN Agenda 2030 for  Sustainable Development:

- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

- Goal 4: Quality Education

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Students that will attend the lessons

Basic work: A. MODUGNO, Filosofia e pensare critico, Carocci, Roma 2023

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, Filosofia e pensare critico, Carocci, Roma 2023

2. Choose one of these works:

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

- G. MADDALENA, G. GILI, Chi ha paura della post-verità? Effetti collaterali di una parabola culturale, Marietti, 2021

- M. LYNCH, La verità e i suoi nemici, Raffaello Cortina, 2007 - pp. 1-140

2. Choose one of these works:

- PLATONE, Teeteto

- AGOSTINO, Contro gli Accademici 

- R. DESCARTES, Meditazioni metafisiche

- E. HUSSERL, La filosofia come scienza rigorosa 

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

DAVIDE PARMIGIANI (President)

ALESSANDRA MODUGNO (President Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Start of class: Sepember 2023

End of class: December 2023

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Class schedule

CRITICAL THINKING AND ARGUMENTATION

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

A. Students that will attend the lessons

Ongoing oral group debate, ongoing written text, 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