2022/2023

2022/2023

DM270

M-FIL/06 (HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (27/02/2023 - 09/06/2023)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN TEST

COSPITO GIUSEPPE (titolare) - 12 ECTS

No specific qualification or knowledge beyond that required for admission to the undergraduate degree in Philosophy. However, those who sit only the exam of History of Modern Philosophy -b should demonstrate a basic understanding of the philosophical thought of the XV-XVIII centuries.

The aim of the course is to obtain knowledge about the major theoretical issues and the most significant currents of early modern philosophical thought. The student must be able to read and explain one or more works of an author of particular importance for early modern thought, and to set his philosophy in his historical context, also in light of the most important interpretations.

First part (-a):
In the first part of the course will be approached the authors, currents and fundamental themes of philosophical thought of the XV-XVIII centuries.

Second part -b):
Locke's Essay concerning the Human Understanding
The second part of the course has a monographic nature and aims to read and comment on large passages of the above-mentioned work, which is one of the fundamental text of modern thought.

Lectures. In the first part of the course they will be held with the aid of audiovisual materials. In the second part of the course they will consist fundamentally in reading and commentary of texts. A significant part of the lessons will consist in open discussions with students.

First part (-a):
G. Cambiano, L. Fonnesu, M. Mori (eds.), Storia della filosofia occidentale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014: vol. II, Medioevo e Rinascimento, chpts. VII-VIII; vol. III, Dalla rivoluzione scientifica all’illuminismo (full)

Students can agree with the teacher the use of different handbooks.

Second part (-b):
1. J. Locke, Saggio sull’intelletto umano, trad. M. e N. Abbagnano, Utet, Torino 2004 (also available in e-book) (or alternatively another Italian translation).

2. A book chosen among:
M. Sina, Introduzione a Locke, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2018;
C.A. Viano, John Locke dal razionalismo all’illuminismo, Einaudi, Torino 1973;
J.W. Yolton, John Locke, Il mulino, Bologna 1997.

3. A book chosen among:
A. Pacchi, Introduzione alla lettura del “Saggio sull’intelletto umano” di Locke, Unicopli, Milano 2017
E.J. Lowe, The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay concerning human Understanding, Routledge, New York-London 2013.

Written test and oral examination.
The proof on the first part of the course will consist in a written test to be taken before the oral examination on the second part. The written test consists in three open-ended questions, which are to be answered in three hours. The use of handbooks or any other printed or digital material is not allowed. The oral examination consists in questions about the author and the work explained in the monographic part of the course, and it contemplate reading and commentary of some texts. The assessment will depend on the knowledge expressed, on the form of presentation and on the property of the lexicon. The mark will be expressed out of thirty and it will result from the weighted average of the two proofs.

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