Università Roma Tre

The course refers to the primary sources of knowledge in its historical, epistemological and critical aspects. Within the global goals of the CdLM path, the course intends to focus on the aspects which have the greatest impact with the social, educational and training dynamics, typical of contemporary society.
Specifically, the course aims to promote the following specific goals for students:
• To be able to distinguish the main lines that have marked Western Philosophical Culture;
• To know how to use the language of the discipline appropriately;
• To be able to recognize the impact of some specific epistemological issues on social life and on the formative and educational dynamics, in particular:
- The question of truth and its political, social and educational impact;
- The dynamics of the argument and their impact in social relations;
- The importance of the cultivation of intelligence in the context of personal training;
- Unity and plurality of knowledge: value of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity.
Knowledge and understanding:
• knowledge of the main lines of the Western philosophical Debate and its impact on individual, cultural and political educational dynamics;
• ability to distinguish and compare different trends and lines of thought, according to the different philosophical matrices.

Applying knowledge and understanding:
• Knowledge and understanding of the concepts and theories foreseen by the course;
• Skill of recognizing the fundamental phases and matrices of Western Epistemology;
• Ability to recognize the use of the main argument structures or their disregard.
Making judgments.
• Skill of identifying different reading keys of the different cultural phenomena;
• Capacity to recognize the fundamental cultural lines that animate contemporary society;
• Skills to building speeches and reasoning with greater awareness of their logical and rhetorical structures.

Communication skills.
• Capacity to read and interpret human and social phenomena with greater philosophical competence;
• knowing how to communicate with congruent epistemological skills;
• Capacity to deal with issues related to the philosophy of knowledge and its relationship with society;
• Knowing how to create a training activity by recognizing epistemological assumptions and philosophical contents.

Learning skills.
• Skills of analyzing and critically evaluating - in their fundamental methodological aspects - some contemporary cultural trends;
• Capacity to reflect and analyze about issues related to Epistemologyand the different social contexts, in particular those related to personal training and the impact on social and educational contexts.