Amoretti, Filosofia e medicina (Carocci)
Jaspers, Scritti psicopatologici (Guida)
Canguilhem, Il normale e il patologico (Einaudi)
Bouveresse, Filosofia, mitologia e pseudo-scienza (Einaudi)
Learning Objectives
Knowledge of the contemporary debates on the epistemological status of medicine and psychiatry
Prerequisites
Rudiments of philosophy of science
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures
Further information
Meeting with students: thursday from 9 to 11
Lectures: monday, tuesday and wednwsday from 17 to 19
Type of Assessment
Final oral exam, consisting in a conversation in which the student will have to show her/his knowlwdgw achieved during the course. Particular attention will be devoted to the student's capacity of contextualizing and analyzing the philosophical problems and their solutions and of reading amd commenting meaningful passages of the texts in programme
Course program
The scientificity of medicine; medicine between epistemology and hermeneutics; causes and reasons in medical and psychiatric explanations; the concepts of health and illness