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20710013 THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY in Philosophy L-5 BAGGIO GUIDO
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Passions and Emotions
The course focuses on the topic of emotions from a historical-theoretical perspective. More specifically, the transition from a philosophy of passions to a science of emotions is explored by analysing some texts of the philosophical and scientific literature on the subject.
Module A - Passions and emotions: Descartes and Peirce
The program of Module A will focus on the following topics:
- Introduction to the historical-theoretical meanings of the notions of passion and emotion
- Cartesian theory of passions
- Ch. S. Peirce's anti-Cartesianism.
Module B - Passions and emotions: Hume, pragmatism, and the social theory of emotions.
The program of Module B will focus on the following topics:
- The Humean treatment of passions.
- Introduction to the birth of a science of emotions: Darwin's evolutionism and his theory of emotion expression
- James, Dewey and Mead's theories of emotions and their revival in the contemporary debate within the cognitive sciences.
(reference books)
Module A
R. Cartesio, Le passioni dell’anima, Bompiani 2003
C. S. Peirce, Alcune conseguenze di quattro incapacità, in Id. Scritti scelti, UTET 2005, pp. 107-143.
R.M. Calcaterra, Emozioni e sensazioni nella semiotica di Ch. S. Peirce, in Ead., Pragmatismo: i valori dell’esperienza. Letture di Peirce, James e Mead, Carocci 2003, pp. 17-41.
R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti (a cura di), Il pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, Carocci 2015.
Recommended texts:
G. Mori, Cartesio, Carocci 2010
G. Maddalena, Peirce, La Scuola 2015
Modulo B
D. Hume, Trattato sulla natura umana, Laterza 2008, pp. 289-476
G. Baggio, F. Caruana, A. Parravicini, M. Viola (a cura di), Emozioni. Da Darwin al pragmatismo, Rosenberg & Sellier 2019.
F. Caruana, M. Viola, Come funzionano le emozioni, il Mulino 2018.
Recommended texts:
P. Dumouchel, Emozioni. Saggio sul corpo e il sociale, Medusa 2008.
D. Evans, Emozioni. La scienza del sentimento, Laterza 2002
J. Plamper, Storia delle emozioni, il Mulino 2012
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