Teaching code

4S003374

Teacher

Coordinator

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. IB dal Nov 13, 2017 al Jan 20, 2018.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed at providing general knowledge concerning 20th-Century philosophy. In particular it will focus on the main issues and trends of contemporary philosophical debate, and their intertwining with the topics of historical and social sciences. Special attention will be dedicated to Karl Popper: his thought can be regarded as influential on the development of physics and methodology of social sciences. Besides that, it provides new solutions in the socio-political field and also in the theological one.
The ability to read and understand the texts will be particularly attentive and tested during the exam; students will be brought to dialogue with some of the protagonists of philosophical thinking, refining terminology and exercising, at the same time, the ability to link the knowledge acquired through personal experience.

Program

The programme will be divided into two sections:
1)The following topics and authors will be approached (chosen among the many ones that are dealt with in the handbooks on History of Philosophy):
-introduction to the 20th-Century philosophical climate: neo-criticism and neo-idealism;
-pragmatism and Dewey;
-Husserl and the phenomenological orientation;
-Heidegger and the various ways to existentialism;
-Wittgestein and neo-positivism;
-neo-Scholastics and personalism;
-Gadamer and contemporary hermeneutics;
-the School of Frankfurt and neo-Marxism;
- the Spanish-american thought.
2) We will try to find in Popper’s texts a definition of the nature of the scientific discourse and the meaning of science in contemporary society; we will also consider the self-affirmation of the political theory of liberalism, that Popper regards as the characteristic political form of an open society.

Examination Methods

Oral examination.