HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY EPISTEMOLOGY
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° YearCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
The course aims to outline the main currents and schools of epistemology in the ’900, with particular attention on the human sciences and psychology, in order to provide students with a better understanding of the debate on the scientific status of the various disciplines.
Detailed Course Content
The course is divided into a general and monographic part. The general part will be devoted to a presentation of historical epistemology between between the ages of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The monographic section will be devoted to the epistemology of complexity.
Textbook Information
General part
- F. Coniglione, Popper addio. alla crisi dell’epistemologia alla fine del logos occidentale, Bonanno, Acireale-Roma 2008 (from p. 11 to p. 223 – on the whole pp. 212)
Monographic part:
- I. Licata, I gatti di Wiener. Modelli, caos complessità, Bonanno, Acireale-Roma 2015. (Only a few essays, which will be indicated in class - not more than 120 pp. about).
- G. Sapienza (a cura di), Processo alla complessità, LetteredaQalat, Caltagirone 2015 (solo i saggi a pp. 15-47, 51-71, 135-153, 155-176).
- G. Gembillo, A. Anselmo, Filosofia della complessità, Le Lettere, Firenze 2013. (pp. 200).