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B015706 - KNOWLEDGE THEORY
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Teaching Language
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
Further information
Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2014-15
Coorte 2014 - Second Cycle Degree in THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION
Course year
First year - First 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
22/09/2014 ⇒ 19/12/2014
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course program
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
English
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
References
Books:
A. Peruzzi, Scienza per la democrazia, ETS, Pisa 2009
Papers:
A. Peruzzi, Serve la filosofia agli scienziati?, in Dal Pianeta Galileo, a cura di A. Peruzzi, Consiglio Regionale della Toscana, Firenze 2005, 129-142.
<http://www.consiglio.regione.toscana.it:8085/news-ed-eventi/pianeta-galileo/atti/2004/15_filosofia.pdf>
A. Peruzzi, The meaning of category theory for 21st century philosophy, Axiomathes 16 (2006) 425-460.
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10516-005-0466-8#page-1>
A. Peruzzi, L’IA e la semantica, Annali del Dip. di Fil. 2002 (2003) 191-228, <http://www.fupress.net/index.php/adf/article/view/1974>
Videos:
L. Smolin, <https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_smolin_on_science_and_democracy>, 2003.
Slides:
to be provided during the course
Books:
A. Peruzzi, Scienza per la democrazia, ETS, Pisa 2009
Papers:
A. Peruzzi, Serve la filosofia agli scienziati?, in Dal Pianeta Galileo, a cura di A. Peruzzi, Consiglio Regionale della Toscana, Firenze 2005, 129-142.
<http://www.consiglio.regione.toscana.it:8085/news-ed-eventi/pianeta-galileo/atti/2004/15_filosofia.pdf>
A. Peruzzi, The meaning of category theory for 21st century philosophy, Axiomathes 16 (2006) 425-460.
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10516-005-0466-8#page-1>
A. Peruzzi, L’IA e la semantica, Annali del Dip. di Fil. 2002 (2003) 191-228, <http://www.fupress.net/index.php/adf/article/view/1974>
Videos:
L. Smolin, <https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_smolin_on_science_and_democracy>, 2003.
Slides:
to be provided during the course
Learning Objectives
The course is aimed at presenting philosophy as not only an activity of conceptual clarification but also as a foundational research on basic issues of science and ethics, with focus on language and communication.
Prerequisites
Elementary understanding of philosophical lexicon, as it can be achieved in high-school or a first level degree in humanities.
Teaching Methods
Lessons
Further information
Students with no background in philosophy will be suggested further readings. As for references in Italian language, students with no knowledge of Italian will be suggested different readings. At the beginning of each lesson a short summary of the contents dealt with in the lesson will be provided in Italian.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination
Course program
"Philosophy at work"
1. Philosophy in a nutshell?
2. Giulio Preti’s Sodom and Gomorrah
3. The axiomatic method vs the network paradigm
4. The path of philosophy of science
5. Logic: from implicit to explicit
6. What is a scientific theory?
7. The value of science for democracy
8. Is scientific communication a red herring?
9. Explanation
10. Faith and reason
11. Numbers
12. Finite vs infinite
13. Paradoxes
14. Foundations of mathematics
15. Sets or categories?
16. The nature of language
17. The language of mind
18. From the algebra of thought to the Turing machine
19. Artificial intelligence as experimental semantics and epistemology
20. A case study: the Chinese Room
21. Gödel’s Theorem
22. Entwined naturalism
23. Metaphor as structure of thought
24. Metaphors in mathematics
25. The theory of kinaesthetic schemes
26. Cognitive and affective insight
27. The two cultures
28. Complexity: between myth and science
29. Metacognition
30. Doesn’t simplicity live here anymore?
1. Philosophy in a nutshell?
2. Giulio Preti’s Sodom and Gomorrah
3. The axiomatic method vs the network paradigm
4. The path of philosophy of science
5. Logic: from implicit to explicit
6. What is a scientific theory?
7. The value of science for democracy
8. Is scientific communication a red herring?
9. Explanation
10. Faith and reason
11. Numbers
12. Finite vs infinite
13. Paradoxes
14. Foundations of mathematics
15. Sets or categories?
16. The nature of language
17. The language of mind
18. From the algebra of thought to the Turing machine
19. Artificial intelligence as experimental semantics and epistemology
20. A case study: the Chinese Room
21. Gödel’s Theorem
22. Entwined naturalism
23. Metaphor as structure of thought
24. Metaphors in mathematics
25. The theory of kinaesthetic schemes
26. Cognitive and affective insight
27. The two cultures
28. Complexity: between myth and science
29. Metacognition
30. Doesn’t simplicity live here anymore?