ID:
10684
Dettaglio:
SSD: Theoretical Philosophy
Duration: 36
CFU: 6
Located in:
BERGAMO
Url:
PHILOSOPHY - 106-R/FILOSOFICO TEORICO Year: 1
Year:
2025
The course aims to furnish students with the vocabulary and certain conceptual instruments adapted to the understanding of the themes and theses that will be encountered in more advanced philosophical study. In particular, the student should have developed a sensitivity to some of the basic concepts of inference, with a certain emphasis on deduction, and acquired an ability to analyze and formalize elementary arguments in the light of the notion of a truth table and of the modal extensions of propositional logic
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The main mode of instruction will be exposition by the teacher of the adopted texts. But students are encouraged to participate actively in the discussion: if they wish to make presentations of their own, these can be taken into account in course evaluation.
Italian law stipulates oral examination as the privileged form of evaluation, but this can be integrated with presentations in class or a brief (5-10 thousand word) dissertation on the themes treated in the texts under consideration. Students who do not follow lessons, are on Erasmus exchange or have certified learning disabilities are advised to contact the teacher for indications about exam preparation.
Starting from a historical account of how dialectic emerged in the fourth-fift century BCE, we take account fo Aristotle's invention of the syllogistic, with the distinction between variables and constants. The later collocation, from the Hellenistic period and the Middle Ages, of the art of arguing as a sister of grammar and rhetoric leads to a consideration of the twin notions of definition and ambiguity. With the great symbolic turn of the late nineteenth century, the question arises of how to 'translate' arguments expressed in natural languages into the various formalisms that were adopted. While students are required to become actively familiar with one or more of the symbolisms of propositional and predicate logic proposed int he set texts, lessons will be concerned with the variety fo graphic choices that have been made. Some elementary notions of intentional logicswith a view to preparing students to meet these symbolisms as they are used in philosophical debates.
The readings and the lectures of the course are in English