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B015706 - KNOWLEDGE THEORY
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Academic Year 2013-14
Coorte 2013 - Second Cycle Degree in THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
60
Teaching Term
03/03/2014 ⇒ 06/06/2014
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
I. Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Vintage 1996.
H. Putnam, The threfold cord, Columbia University Press, 1999.
A. Peruzzi, From Kant to entwined naturalism, Annali del Dipartimento di Filosofia, University of Florence 1993, http://www.scform.unifi.it/docenti/peruzzi/papers.htm
H. Putnam, The threfold cord, Columbia University Press, 1999.
A. Peruzzi, From Kant to entwined naturalism, Annali del Dipartimento di Filosofia, University of Florence 1993, http://www.scform.unifi.it/docenti/peruzzi/papers.htm
Learning Objectives
Knowledge of contemporary debate about the the mind-body problem and the nature of semantics. Introduction to reference values in order to understand the place of human being in the universe and to sketch e unifying perspective which joins science and humanities.
Teaching Methods
Classroom lessons
Type of Assessment
Oral examination, plus a written report on one topic dealt with in the course.
Course program
The course has two parts. The first part consists of a discussion of Hilary Putnam's book titled "The Threefold Cord", in order to focus on the present state of the philosophical debate as it developed through the XXth century within the analytic tradition. The second part deals with the problems unsolved by the same tradition. By means of Calvino's Six Memos and their reformulation in mathematical terms by Lolli, the course intends to clarify some of the features characterizing an "entwined naturalism".