PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
FILOSOFIA DELLA MENTE
Course code
FT0584 (AF:522979 AR:294296)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
M-FIL/02
Period
3rd Term
Course year
1
The course introduces the main authors of the philosophy of the mind in the modern age (Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, et al.). The course follows the methodology of historical epistemology, inviting students to discover and discuss the political, cultural and intellectual context in which a certain paradigm of the mind has developed. The second part of the course focuses on the contemporary disciplines that have been influenced by the philosophy of the mind (psychology, psychoanalysis, epistemology of science, artificial intelligence).
TBA
No specific knowledge of the topics under investigation is expected.
TBA
TBA
30% class presentation (group)
70% final essay (individual)
The essay (approx 6000 words) will be on a topic related to one of those discussed during the course (but different from the topic addressed by the student during class presentation), and pre settled with the course tutor.
Lectures, class discussions, student presentations, possible seminars with invited speakers.
Italian
written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 05/03/2024