HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY EPISTEMOLOGY

Among the learning objectives that the course proposes and which concern not its contents, but the skills and competences that each student must achieve, the teacher must first of all aim at the knowledge and correct understanding of its contents and texts studied. He must also ensure that each student is able to apply the knowledge learned, encouraging him to put in place methods and tools to achieve an autonomous learning ability that allows to form an autonomy of judgment, which is also supported by the ability to communicate effectively what is studied, thus testifying that he has achieved on the issues dealt with during the course an adequate development of his communication skills.

Attendance to classes is optional, but highly recommended, and this in view of the fact that for much of the program will be used handouts (in the form of slides) that must be clarified by the teacher, having the characteristic of being quite synthetic.

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.

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.

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 (solo alcuni saggi, che verranno indicati a lezione)

- 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).