2020/2021

2020/2021

DM270

M-FIL/02 (LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE)

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS "FELICE CASORATI"

MATHEMATICS

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (01/03/2021 - 11/06/2021)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST

MAGNANI LORENZO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

General knowledge about the history of philosophical thought,

The course will analyze in depth crucial issues to the philosophy of science and technology, encouraging students to conduct research and studies about the different kinds of scientific reasoning, about the cognitive aspects of epistemology and about the relationship between science, technology and values. Furthermore, the course will also specifically deal with recent issues from computational philosophy, stressing the cognitive and epistemological aspects of scientific discovery.

The course will analyze in depth some issues that are crucial to the philosophy of science and technology, and it aims at introducing students to the different kinds of scientific reasoning, to the cognitive aspects of science and to the relationships between science, technology and values. Furthermore, the course will also include advanced investigations of certain actual issues in computational philosophy, stressing cognitive and epistemological aspects of scientific creativity, of abduction and of evaluation among scientific theories.

Lectures and seminars.

**THE FINAL EXAM PROGRAM WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE CLASSES**

Further details about what materials should be actually considered will be provided during classes.

The student who will not attend the classes have to contact the professor to get (or to negotiate) the actual final program for the exams. THIS ACADEMIC YEAR PLEASE DISREGARD THE REFERENCE TO STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE CLASSES

Provisional bibliography (please see the final exam program on April).
Philosophy students:

L. MAGNANI, Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning, Springer, Berlin/New York.
P. THAGARD, Rivoluzioni concettuali, Guerini, Milan,1994.
LAKATOS, Dimostrazioni e confutazioni, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1978.
A.F. CHALMERS, What is This Thing Called Science?, Third Edition, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1999.
Or A.F. Chalmers, Che cos’è questa scienza in Italiano (presso CLU, via S. Fermo 3, tel. 0382 29130)


Mathematic students:
I. LAKATOS, Dimostrazioni e confutazioni, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1978.
A.F. CHALMERS, What is This Thing Called Science?, Third Edition, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1999.
Or A.F. Chalmers, Che cos’è questa scienza? in Italian
L. MAGNANI, Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning, Springer, Berlin/New York.
L. MAGNANI, Conoscenza come dovere. Moralità distribuita in un mondo tecnologico, Aracne, Rome, 2019.




For everyone: Material chosen by the student, concerning a particular study project, upon agreement with the professor.

All the student will have to check the actual final programs for the exams on April.

Written exam

Students that do not attend the course are requested to send contact the teacher by email. THIS ACADEMIC YEAR PLEASE DISREGARD THE REFERENCE TO STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE CLASSES