Università Roma Tre

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.
In the course will be read and commented texts by Maine de Biran, Ravaisson and William James and the main interpretations of the scholars on their doctrines will be discussed.

1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018.
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019
3. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, D. Vincenti (ed.), Milan, Mimesis, 2019 (original English text available online at the URL = ).
4. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

A text chosen from:
5.1 Maine de Biran, Introduzione all'Influenza dell'abitudine sulla facoltà di pensare, G. Grasso (ed.), Chieti, Edizioni Solfanelli, 2017
5.2 Félix Ravaisson, L’abitudine, S. Capodivacca (ed.), Turin, Ananke, 2009