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 aims to foster skills and tools learning, for reflection and reasoning concerning philosophical area but also crossing them. The main goals are: - Explore the issues of critical thinking and truth - 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.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, the student should:

1. know the main conceptions and positions inherent to the question of ‘critical thinking’

2. know the main theoretical issues concerning truth and the positions relating to them

3. be able to problematise: grasp the issues present in a text or situation

4. being able to take a position: expressing one's own position on a given issue

5. knowing how to argue: proposing valid and adequate arguments in support of the thesis assumed

The achievement of these learning objectives promotes the acquisition and/or enhancement of some important transversal competences: functional literacy, personal and social competence, learning to learn.

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

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Start of class: 24 Sepember 2025

End of class: 27 November 2025

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Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

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