Università Roma Tre

THE TEACHING FACCES THE DIFFICULT CONCEPT OF "MEANING" , PARTICULARLY REFERING TO THE STUDIES ABOUT MIND AND HUMAN COGNITION; FIRST OF ALL, THE STUDY OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE. tHE ANALISYS CONSIDER THE CLASSIC DIFFERENT REFLECTIONS ABOUT LANGUAGE (THEORY OF MEANING, LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE, ABILITY OF REFERENCE) FROM A CLASSIC OF '60, THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCHES IN EMPIRIC SCIENCES ( NEUROSCIENCES, COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITIVE ETHOLOGY) THAT ANIMATE THE DEBATE OF CONTEMPORARY COGNITIVE SCIENCE. THE PROJECT " NATURALIZATION OF MIND" REPRESENTS THE THEORICAL BACKGROUND OF TEACHING, WITH AN EVOLUTIONISTIC POINT OF VIEW.