ID:
64021
Dettaglio:
SSD: Logic and Philosophy of Science
Duration: 36
CFU: 6
Located in:
BERGAMO
Url:
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY - 64-R/PSICOLOGIA CLINICA Year: 1
Year:
2025
The course aims to introduce psychology students to the epistemology of complex systems. In particular, the connections between systemic-relational psychology and the various notions of chaotic system, of complex system and of self-organized system will be explored.
1) Brief history of scientific knowledge in the 20th century: limitative theorems in mathematical sciences (incompleteness and undecidability theorems), physical sciences (Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, notion of chaotic system) and biology (impossibility of self-organization). 2) The crisis of classical-positivist epistemology and the birth of the epistemology of complex systems (Bateson, Piaget, Wiener, Von Foerster, Prigogine, Morin). 3) The mind as a complex system and the ecology of mind of Gregory Bateson: mental processes, processes of change and learning processes in cognitive systems. 4) Logical paradoxes and pragmatic paradoxes, learning contexts and communication contexts 5) Pathology and creativity in complex systems.
Exam contents:
1) G. Bateson, Verso un'ecologia della mente, Adelphi, 2004 (Parti II, III e IV)
2) One of the following texts:
2a) Heinz von Förster, Sistemi che osservano, Astrolabio, Roma, 1987
2b) Gregory Bateson, Naven. Un rituale di travestimento in Nuova Guinea, Raffaello Cortina, 2022
2c) Giovanni Madonna, Sogno, Guarigione, Cura. Una teoria sistemico-relazionale del sogno in chiave di Ecologia della mente, Franco Angeli, 2017