Teaching code

4S000449

Teacher

Paolo Dordoni

Credits

3

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/02 - LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Language

Italian

Period

LMSIO VR - 1° ANNO 2° SEM. dal Apr 15, 2021 al Jun 26, 2021.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

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Learning outcomes

To achieve a new awareness about the complexity of caring by reflecting on some fundamental myths related to it (Care, Prometheus, Babel);

To identify some of the challenges of caring by reconstructing its historical development;

Getting acquaintance with some categories of philosophy of science and logic for a clinical appraisal to one's clinical practice;

To practise a more suitable model of reasoning/choice making for caring: practical wisdom and deliberative method

To distinguish between practical and applied ethics

Program

The challenges for caring entailed in its fundamental Myths and in its History;

The implicit assumptions of some common ways of thinking in medicine (the distinction between facts and values; the connection between verification and truth; the difference between science and philosophy; the heredity of positivism...) in the light of some issues of philosophy of science (The problem of demarcation; Inductivism; Holism; The problem of so-called protocol-sentences...);

Induction (Hints); The logic of Deduction; Syllogism; Inferences fallacies; Truth- Table (Wittgenstein);

The connection between caring and wisdom: through a more suitable logic for caring;

Ethical Deliberation and ethical competence

Practical and applied ethics

Recommended material (Further information will be given in the class)

- Slides (Power Point) with "Panopto"
- Item "to cure“. Encyclopedia of Bioethics (2nd ed.) Warren Reich. / o Prendersi cura dei vulnerabili: il punto di incontro tra etica secolare ed etica religiosa nel mondo pluralistico. ITC-Provincia autonoma di Trento
- Dordoni Paolo. Itinerari di Bioetica. Cortina Edizioni Universitarie. If available, otherwise the following texts:
- Dordoni Paolo. Tra scienza e tecnica. Il recupero della prudenza nella prassi infermieristica (Draft)
- Dordoni Paolo. Cura Prudenza e responsabilità nella pratica infermieristica. Atti del convegno 22 maggio Trento Cura. Esperienze e Evidenze. Organizzato dal collegio IPASVI di Trento o Dordoni Paolo. Uno nessuno centomila. I molti volti del destinatario dell’informazione sanitaria.
- Dordoni Paolo. “Oltre un´etica meramente applicata. Spunti per la costruzione di un´etica pratica” Phronesis IX, (2008) 10.
- Dordoni Paolo. “Prudenza e deliberazione nella pratica clinica: la pratica Tutor”; 3 (2005): pp. 98-106
- Dordoni Paolo. “Prudenza e deliberazione nella pratica clinica: spunti metodologici”. Tutor; 3 (2005: pp. 106-114.)


About specific topics following books/articles are recomended:
- Gillies D. Giorello. La filosofia della scienza nel XX secolo. Laterza. Roma 1995. (cap. 1 (pp. 5-15); cap. 2 (pp. 35-47); cap. 3 (69-76) cap. 4 (pp. 106-116); cap. 5; cap. 6. cap. 7 (161-167)….
- Federspil Giovanni. Logica clinica. Mac Graw-Hill. Milano 2004. (3-90) A titolo di integrazione.

Gracia Guillén Diego. “Moral deliberation: the role of methodologies in clinical ethics”. Medicine Health care and Philosophy. (2001) 4: 223-232. Tradotto “la deliberazione come metodo della razionalità pratica” in AA.VV. L’argomentazione del giudizio bioetico. Teorie a confronto. A cura di Viafora e Mocellin. Franco Angeli. Milano 2006.
Gracia Guillén Diego. Construyendo valores. Triacastela. Madrid 2013

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Examination Methods