Corso di laurea in Filosofia

Knowledge of one or more classics of the philosophical tradition.

Understanding and contextualization of each text in its historical and theoretical dimension, to be achieved through guided reading, discussion, and self-study.

Development of comprehension and critical skills in the analysis of philosophical texts, especially of the ability to recognize and assess a philosophical argument and the argumentative styles used in philosophical texts.

Learning of the key elements of the didactic methodology for the building of a philosophy curriculum, including also the improvement of linguistic and argumentative skills that are essential objectives of this curriculum. 

Knowledge and understanding of the text, of its historical and philosophical context, and of its contents.

The ability to apply existing and new notions based on a plausible interpretation of the philosophical arguments in the text.

The ability to assess and critically discuss the authoritative interpretations of the text.

The ability to address problems and new solutions in an effective and consistent way.

The ability to produce autonomous research and to express it both in written form and orally.

36-hour face-to-face course available also in straming. Recordings of the lectures will be made available on Moodle. Around 25% of the course will consist in reading assigments and discussions in class not to be recorded. Subsequently, it will be possible to take the assigments individually in written form and to receive feedback on Moodle.

The evaluation of learning will consist for 50% of a written exam with open questions and for 50% of a subsiquent oral exam. The exams will assess the student's knowledge and understending of the text examined in the course, her ability to contexutalize the texts' main contents, to critically analyse the philosophical arguments in it, and to present them in an appropriate and consistent way. The final grade will be based on a 30-point scale.

The course is dedicated to the first volume of Edmund Husserl's seminal work, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy. The volume, entitled General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology, offers a systematic presentation of the methodological and conceptual tools of one of the principal directions of twentieth-century philosophy. Through a guided reading of Husserl's text, the course will examine central concepts of his thought, including "suspension of judgment (epoché)", "intentionality", "phenomenological constitution", and, on that basis, it will provide some interpretative keys for the project of a pure phenomenology, understood as a general theory of logical and practical reason based on the analysis of the fundamental structures of consciousness.

Bibliography:

Husserl, Edmund, Idee per una fenomenologia pura e per una filosofia fenomenologica, Volume I, Libro primo: Introduzione generale alla fenomenologia pura, Italian edition by Vincenzo Costa, Torino: Einaudi, 2002 (or the English edition in: Collected works, 2: Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy ; book 1 : General introduction to a pure phenomenology, translated by F. Kersten, The Hague: Nijhoff, 1982)

Recommended literature:

Bernet, Rudolf, Iso Kern, Eduard Marbach, Edmund Husserl. Un'introduzione alla fenomenologia, Italian edition by Claudio La Rocca, Bologna: Il mulino, 1992 (English edition as An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology; with a foreword by Lester Embree, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993).

Costa, Vincenzo, Elio Franzini, Paolo Spinicci, La fenomenologia, Torino: Einaudi, 2002.

Costa, Vincenzo, Husserl, Roma: Carocci, 2009.

The course will begin on May 2, 2022. Further information on the organization of classes under the current santary measures will be made available in due course.