Teaching code

4S000449

Teacher

Carlo Chiurco

Credits

3

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/02 - LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Period

2° SEM LM , Lm Sio BZ - VR 1A 2S (Coorte 2022)

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

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Program

The course consists of two parts:
In the first, we will discuss the main ethical paradigms used in bioethics, principialism and consequentialism, in order to show their advantages and their limits. After that, we will discuss some alternative and fence-mending approaches, such as virtue ethics, ethics of relationship, and the dialogic approach, and we will address the current main bioethical issue about the meaning and the limits of the notions of autonomy and self-determination, and their difficult relation with the key notions of ethics and medicine, care and relationship.
In the second part, we will deal with the problem of the often-difficult relation between ethics and science, by analysing the main paradigms of health, illness and care developed in the twentieth century (Jaspers, Gadamer, Canguilhem), which led to a re-definition of the meaning of curing, the role of health operators, and a tiresome re-organisation of the whole “system of care”. Such analysis must also imply a revision of the role and meaning of science, and the relation it entertains with ethics: beside briefly recalling the critic to scientist paradigms (reductionism, biologism, the “law of Hume”), we will discuss more holistic visions of science (Bachelard) and care (Guardini).

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Didactic methods

Classes will be held exclusively in presence, without any resorting to emergency online teaching. The latter will be confined solely to students who are incapacitated to attend in-presence classes because of CoViD: in this case, students are obliged to show proof of their health status after filling the specific form. The way classes are taught to ill students will be decided by the professor. It may include sending or uploading of the audio file of the class(es), the organisation of a class via streaming, sending additional teaching material, or organising a meeting (in-presence or via streaming).
Classes include lecturing and texts reading (complete or partial). Texts will be explained, and they can belong to different ages and/or authors. Reading may include multi-media supports, such as Power Point files, movie or video projections, and the audio files of the classes. The latter will be made available to students only at the end of the course. External academics or experts may also be invited to give a presentation.
Any change or suspension in the classes schedule will be communicated as soon as possible by email sent to the students’ institutional accounts.
Meeting hours for students are scheduled during the whole academic year. The meetings’ timetable is found at the personal webpage of the teacher, and it is constantly kept updated. However, students are required to arrange a meeting in advance by sending an email to the teacher.
The course program remains the same for non-attending students too. The professor is always ready to be helpful and provide all the necessary support.

Learning assessment procedures

The final test consists of an oral examination for all students (including those who did not attend the classes), comprising up to three questions concerning the topics of the classes.
The examination aims to ascertain a) the level of knowledge acquired by students, b) the level of their acquired competences, and c) the properness of their ways of expressing their knowledge and competences.

Evaluation criteria

In the oral examination, each question scores up to 10 points: 4 for the level of knowledge and competences respectively, and 2 for the properness of language.

Exam language

Italiano.