THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic year
2016/2017
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
M-FIL/01 (THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
PHILOSOPHY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)
ECTS
12
Lesson hours
72 lesson hours
Language
ITALIAN
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
VANZAGO LUCA (titolare) - 12 ECTS
Prerequisites
None
Learning outcomes
The lecture course introduces students to the study of the main modern and contemporary conceptions of the plural dimension of the cognitive relationship. A particular attention is devoted to the notions of concept, of linguistic and imaginative representation and of truth. Lessons take place as a guide to the direct analysis of philosophical texts and to the use of the relevant secondary texts.
Course contents
Programme for students who follow or do not follow the lectures

Part one
Reflection and method in philosophy
The lecture course will concern the origin of the problem of philosophy and will discuss the problem of the philosophical method.

Texts
An introductory text by choice:
G. Semerari, Filosofia. Lezioni preliminari, Guerini e Associati, Milano 1991
T. Nagel, Una brevissima introduzione alla filosofia, Il Saggiatore, Milano 1996
C. Sini, Filosofia teoretica, Jaca Book, Milano 1992

Subjects and texts that will be analyzed during the lectures:
1. The reflexive beginning of philosophy: thaumazein, epoche, doubt:
S. Borutti, Filosofia e scena primaria: figure dell’inizio, “Paradigmi”, 55, 2001, pp. 7-21.
2, Skepsis. The skepticism as an auto-refutation of philosophical realism:
G. Preti, Lo scetticismo e il problema della conoscenza, “Rivista critica di storia della filosofia”, I, 1974, pp. 3-21 (The pages 22-31 and the second part of this article in “Rivista critica di storia della filosofia”, II, 1974, pp. 123-143 are an optional reading).
3. Descartes. The methodical doubt and the research of an internal criterion of knowledge:
R. Descartes, Discorso sul metodo, in Opere, Mondadori Editore, Milano 1986, Parte I, II, III, IV, Quarta, pp. 149-173.
R. Descartes, Meditazioni metafisiche, in Opere, cit., First Meditation, pp. 211-215, e Second Meditation, pp. 216-223.
4. Hegel. The distance between the “natürliche Vorstellung” and the “reales Wissen”:
G. W. F. Hegel, Fenomenologia dello spirito, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1963, I vol., Introduction, pp. 65-78.
5. Husserl. The natural attitude and the philosophical attitude:
E. Husserl, Idee per una fenomenologia fenomenologia pura e una filosofia fenomenologica, Einaudi, Torino 1965, L. I, §§ 27-32, pp. 57-67.
Second Part
The crisis of philosophy and the task of thinking. An analysis of Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences.

The course provides a critical discussion of the theses proposed by Husserl in his last, unfinished work, in order both to outline the contours of phenomenology as first philosophy, and to pose the question of the task of thinking in a perspective that permits to examine the current situation.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Part one

An introductory text by choice:
G. Semerari, Filosofia. Lezioni preliminari, Guerini e Associati, Milano 1991
T. Nagel, Una brevissima introduzione alla filosofia, Il Saggiatore, Milano 1996
C. Sini, Filosofia teoretica, Jaca Book, Milano 1992

Compulsory texts:
S. Borutti, Filosofia e scena primaria: figure dell’inizio, “Paradigmi”, 55, 2001, pp. 7-21.
G. Preti, Lo scetticismo e il problema della conoscenza, “Rivista critica di storia della filosofia”, I, 1974, pp. 3-21 (The pages 22-31 and the second part of this article in “Rivista critica di storia della filosofia”, II, 1974, pp. 123-143 are an optional reading).
R. Descartes, Discorso sul metodo, in Opere, Mondadori Editore, Milano 1986, Parte Prima, Seconda, Terza, Quarta, pp. 149-173.
R. Descartes, Meditazioni metafisiche, in Opere, cit., Prima Meditazione, pp. 211-215, e Seconda Meditazione, pp. 216-223.
G. W. F. Hegel, Fenomenologia dello spirito, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1963, I vol., Introduzione, pp. 65-78.
E. Husserl, Idee per una fenomenologia pura e una filosofia fenomenologica, Einaudi, Torino 1965, L. I, §§ 27-32, pp. 57-67.

Part two

Introductory text:

F. S. Trincia, Guida alla lettura della "Crisi delle scienze europee" di Husserl, Laterza, Roma 2012.

Main Text:

E. Husserl, La crisi delle scienze europee e la filosofia trascendentale, Il Saggiatore, Milano 1961 and successive editions.

Further reading:

K. Löwith, Il nichilismo europeo, Laterza, Roma 1999.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Further information
Oral examination
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