Teaching code

4S007337

Credits

6

Coordinator

Tommaso Tuppini

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Courses Single

Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

Hermeneutics and Linguistic Practices The programme aims to encourage hermeneutic readings of philosophical texts by having students work directly on this technique during lessons. For this purpose, the course aims to offer the cognitive foundations of hermeneutical practice both in its historico-philosophical reconstruction and in the contemporary debate, emphasizing the different philosophical positions on the field. The purpose of the hermeneutical practice in the classroom is that students (females and males) can acquire an ability to interpret the philosophical texts proposed with a refined critical sense and with the ability to deal with different interpretations of the text itself and to discuss the different opinions. All this is done to create the habit of reading philosophical texts, which may subsequently be an acquired education for further situations in which interpretative skills are needed.

Prerequisites and basic notions

There are no prerequisites.

Program

THE ATOMISTIC TRADITION
Generally atomism is understood as a scientific-philosophical hybrid which, born in Greece, finds its fulfillment in contemporary quantum physics. We will try to understand the purely philosophical nature of this tradition of thought, starting from the question: what is the atom? We will begin by reading and commenting on the young Marx's doctoral thesis on Epicurus and Democritus, then moving a step back towards Lucretius and finally moving towards those thinkers who have questioned in the most fruitful way the statute of this strange thing we call the "atom", above all Nietzsche, Ruyer and Whitehead, the philosopher for whom "the ultimate metaphysical truth is atomism".

Didactic methods

Frontal lessons and seminar meetings with student reports.

Learning assessment procedures

There are three possibilities to pass the examination:
- Those who have attended at least three quarters of the meetings of the 'lectures' part (18 out of 24 hours), three quarters of the meetings of the 'exercises' part (18 out of 24 hours) and have prepared an oral report discussed in the classroom, will receive a grade proposal at the end of the course, which, if accepted, will be recorded on the day of the appeal.
- Those who have attended at least three quarters of the meetings of the 'lectures' part (18 out of 24 hours), three quarters of the meetings of the 'tutorials' part (18 out of 24 hours) and have not prepared an oral report discussed in the classroom, will write a report of approximately 18,000 characters, the topic of which must be agreed with the lecturer at least one month before the date of the appeal and which will be discussed orally in the examination.
- Those who have attended less than the meetings in the two cases listed above, or have not attended at all, will write a paper of approximately 24,000 characters, the subject of which must be agreed with the lecturer at least one month before the date of the appeal and which will be discussed orally in the examination.

Evaluation criteria

For those who have attended the quantity of hours listed above and have prepared a paper discussed in the classroom, the evaluation criteria are: quality and seriousness of the paper, coherence of argumentation and clarity of exposition, active participation in the discussions of the seminar part.
For those who have attended at least the quantity of hours listed above and have not prepared a paper discussed in the classroom, the evaluation criteria are: quality and seriousness of the written paper, coherence of argumentation and clarity of exposition during the oral exam, active participation in the discussions of the seminar part.
For those who attended fewer than the number of hours listed above or did not attend, the assessment criteria are: quality and seriousness of the written report, coherence of argumentation and clarity of exposition during the oral exam.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

Vote in thirtieths.

Exam language

Italiano. Se lo studente è di una madrelingua differente: in inglese.