Università Roma Tre

The program has two main parts:
the first part (14 hours) concerns the main problems of Epistemology.
This will take place through a basic historical path: firstly, showing how the reflection on knowledge was structured from the Greeks to the thinkers of the early twentieth century.
Secondly, there will be a presentation of the main contemporary theories and debates.
The second part (22 hours) will deal with the question of truth, treated as a monographic theme, according to the following elements:
a) Theory of truth: "robust" and "non-robust" theories; realism, foundationalism and coherentism; Gettier's paradox and its possible solutions.
b) The "logic of truth" and the classical laws of truth;
c) Skepticism, nihilism, relativism;
d) The practical and political importance of truth; the question of "Aletic Rights";
e) Educating to truth: against ignorance and lies.

For the First Part:

S. Vanni Rovighi, Filosofia della Conoscenza, ESD, Bologna 2007 (only the authors indicated on the list that uploaded on the Blackboard).
C. Calabi et al. (a cura di), Teorie della conoscenza. Il dibattito contemporaneo (only the pages indicated on the Blackboard).

For the Second part:
F. D'Agostini, Introduzione alla verità, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2011;
M.P. Lynch, La verità e i suoi nemici, Cortina, Milano 2007 (tit. orig. Thuth to Life. Why Truth Matters, MIT, Boston 2004);
Universalità dei diritti e il concetto di verità, in "Biblioteca della libertà" 52 (2017), n. 218, pp. 5-126.

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