Università Roma Tre

PROGRAM MODULE A:
The course aims to analyze the concepts of nature and subject in the philosophies of Leibniz and Kant keeping in mind some guiding notions declined in different ways in the two philosophies: body/mind, sensitivity/intellect, quantity/quality, discrete/continuous, mechanism/teleology.
PROGRAM MODULE B:
The course aims to examine the concepts of nature and subject in the philosophies of Kant and Husserl, comparing the notions of nature and natural attitude, transcendental deduction and "epoché", pure form, eidos and variation.

G. W. Leibniz, Monadology, Saggiatore, Milan.
I. Kant, Critic of Pure Reason, Bompiani, Milan (in particular Transcendental Aesthetics and Transcendental Analytics up to § 27).
E. Husserl, The fundamental problems of phenomenology. Lessons on the natural concept of the world, Quodlibet, Macerata.
Massimo Mugnai, Introduction to the philosophy of Leibniz, Einaudi, Turin.
Luigi Scaravelli, Kantian Studies, La Nuova Italia, Florence (in particular chapters I-II-III of Kant and Modern Physics+Lectures on the "Critique of Pure Reason").
Vincenzo Costa, Husserl, Carocci, Rome.