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Teacher
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PIAZZA MARCO
(syllabus)
The course aims to provide conceptual and historical tools around a specific topic in the philosophy of action: habitual actions. The first module aims to provide a synthetic overview of philosophical theories on habit and habitual actions in correlation with the contemporary debate. The second module will focus on the specificity of habitual actions, on which philosophy, including analytical philosophy, has only recently resumed its attention, in close dialogue with psychology, sociology and neuroscience. To this end, a number of doctrines that provide key elements for reflection on the relationship between action, intentionality, automatisms and habits will be examined, including the Aristotelian and pragmatist doctrines.
(reference books)
For Erasmus Students:
D.U. 1:
C. Carlisle, On Habit, London, Routledge, 2014
Ch. S. Peirce, The Fixation of Belief, any edition
D.U. 2:
B. Pollard, “Habitual Actions”, in T. O’Connor, C. Sandis (ed. by), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 74-81
B. Pollard, “Identification, Psychology, and Habits”, in New Waves in Philosophy of Action, edited by J. Aguilar, A. Buckareff and K. Frankish, 8 New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 81–97
A. Noë, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness. Hill and Wang, 2010 (limited to chap. V).
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