Paolo Rossi, La rivoluzione scientifica (Loescher)
Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis (Univ. of Chicago Press)
Learning Objectives
Knowledge: outlines of the history of ideas between Late Renaissance, Modernity, and Post-Modernity. Competence: orientation in the huge bibliography about the treated matter and acquisition of basic concepts and of an appropriate philosophical language
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures
Further information
Compulsory course attendance for at least 2/3 of the course save part time students.
The teacher takes responsibility of making available the texts in programme out of commerce
Type of Assessment
Final oral exam, consisting in a conversation in which students will have to show their knowledge about the matter of the course achieved.
Particular attention will be dedicated to the student's capacity of contestualizing and analyzing the philosophical problems and thier solutions and to his capacity of reading and commenting meaningful passages of the texts in programme
Course program
Renaissance and science; the scientific revolution; Descartes; rationalism and empiricism in the XVII century; post-modernism as a second Renaissance; unfinished modernity