The network infrastructure. Transmission of information. Circuit-switched and packet-switched networks. Local networks. Topologies for local area networks. LANs interconnection. Software architecture for the network. Principles of operation of the TCP/IP. IP addressing, dotted decimal notation, netmask, gateway, DNS. Name authorities. (Chapter 1 of [1])

Network applications. Client/server Architectures. DBMS relational model. Differences between databases and data warehouses. HTTP Protocol: visualisation, http queries, http document specification, URI specification, HTML Language, the browser as a language interpreter; Definition of service proxy. Structuring of information in view of automatic processing. (Chapter 2 of [1]).

Information Theory. Shannon Communication Model. Information quantity. Information Entropy. Mutual Information. Application of information theory to automatic text processing. Information structuring for automatic analysis. (Chapter 2 of [2])

Search engines. Ranking algorithms: the mathematics underlying search engine. Browsing the Web and probability. Transition matrices and their eigenvalues. Interpretation of the principal eigenvector as a ranking measure (Chapters 6 and 7 of [4]). Ranking algorithms, search engines and interfaces. Advanced Google queries [5].

Structuring information. Introduction to the XML tagging language. XML syntax; Definition of a grammar using regular expressions. Definition of the DTD (Data Type Definition). [6]

Materiale didattico [1] James Kurose, Keith Ross. 2013. Reti di Calcolatori e Internet, ISBN:9788871929385.
[2] Manning, C. and Schütze, H. 1999. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
[3] Fabrizio Sebastiani. 2002. Machine learning in automated text categorization. ACM Comput. Surv. 34, 1 (March 2002), 1-47. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/505282.505283
[4] Michael W. Berry, Murray Browne. 2005.
Understanding search engines: mathematical modeling and text retrieval. SIAM. ISBN:0-89871-581-4
[5] Stephan Spencer. 2011. Google Power Search. O’Reilly. 978-1-449-31156-8
[6] Luca Roversi, Gestione Strutturata dell'Informazione, online notes.

Travel literature of the third kind

a) Luigi Marfè, «Oltre la "fine dei viaggi". I resoconti dell’altrove nella letteratura contemporanea», Olschki 2009

b) «Con gli occhi aperti. 20 autori per 20 luoghi», edited by Andrea Cortellessa, Exòrma 2016

c) plus one author, by choice, among

Goffredo Parise, «Cara Cina», Rizzoli 1999 (out of print) + Id., «Guerre politiche», Adelphi 2007 + Id., «L’eleganza è frigida», Adelphi 2008 + «Riga 36. Goffredo Parise», edited by Marco Belpoliti and Andrea Cortellessa, Marcos y Marcos 2016, or

Giorgio Manganelli, «Esperimento con l’India», Adelphi 1992 + Id., «La favola pitagorica», Adelphi 2005 + Id., «L’isola pianeta», Adelphi 2006 + «Cina e altri Orienti», Adelphi, 2013 + «Riga 25. Giorgio Manganelli», edited by Marco Belpoliti and Andrea Cortellessa, Marcos y Marcos 2006 (out of print), or

Alberto Arbasino, «Paesaggi italiani con zombi», Adelphi 1998 + «Le muse a Los Angeles», Adelphi 2000 + Id., «America Amore», Adelphi 2011 + «Pensieri selvaggi a Buenos Aires», Adelphi 2012 + «Riga 18. Alberto Arbasino», edited by Marco Belpoliti ed Elio Grazioli, Marcos y Marcos 2001 (out of print), or

Gianni Celati, «Verso la foce», Feltrinelli 2002 + Id., «Avventure in Africa», Feltrinelli 2001 + Id., «Cinema all’aperto», Fandango 2011 + Id., «Passar la vita a Diol Kadd», Feltrinelli 2011 (including the dvd) + «Riga 28. Gianni Celati», edited by Marco Belpoliti and Marco Sironi, Marcos y Marcos 2008

d) plus one author among

Antonella Anedda, «Isolatria. Viaggio nell’arcipelago della Maddalena», Laterza 2013, or
Franco Arminio, «Viaggio nel cratere», Sironi 2003; or «Terracarne», Mondadori 2011, or
Raffaella D’Elia, «Come le stelle fisse», Empiria 2014, or
Giorgio Falco, «L’ubicazione del bene», Einaudi 2009; or, with Sabrina Ragucci, «Condominio Oltremare», L’orma 2014, or
Valerio Magrelli, «La vice-vita», Laterza 2009; or «La lingua restaurata», Piero Manni 2014, or
Tommaso Ottonieri, «Le strade che portano al Fùcino», Le Lettere 2008, or
Vitaliano Trevisan, «Tristissimi giardini», Laterza 2010, or
Giorgio Vasta, «Spaesamento», Laterza 2010; or «Absolutely nothing», Humboldt-Quodlibet 2016

e) to give a context in the 20th and 21st century italian literary history:

Giulio Ferroni, «Storia della letteratura italiana», vol. IV: «Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio», Milano, Mondadori Università, 2012

Experiences of narrative in contemporary literature and film

A. Mazzarella, La grande rete della scrittura, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2008; J. Gottschall, L’istinto di narrare, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2014.
Filmography:
I. Bergman, Il posto delle fragole (1957); A.e L. Wachowski, Matrix (1999); M. Haneke, Amour (2012).
(I film saranno proiettati durante il corso)

After a short introcuction concerning Hegel's life, works and the developement of his Aesthetics, the course will consist in a close reading of Hegel's Lessons on Aesthetics. In the first part will be read the Introduction and the General Section; in the second part of the course the Special Section, Lectures of 1823..

First Part:
Hegel, Lezioni di Estetica, Roma-Bari, Laterza: Introduzione e pp. 1-115; M. Farina, A. Siani, L’estetica di Hegel Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 7-114

Second Part:
Hegel, Lezioni di Estetica, Roma-Bari, Laterza: Introduzione e pp. 116-302; M. Farina, A. Siani, L’estetica di Hegel Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 115-246.

Seneca and the Power: the two faces of an intellectual between commitment and compromise. In the course an historical and literary setting of Seneca's Apokolokyntosis and Consolatio ad Polybium will be offered, toghether with a close reading of the latin text, an italian interpretation and a full commentary, with particular care to the aspects of literary shape and style.

- As for the Apokolokyntosis, an edition as preferred among: Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokolokyntosis, a cura di G. Vannini, Milano (Mondadori), Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di R. Mugellesi, Milani (Rizzoli) e Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, a cura di G. Focardi, Firenze (Giunti).
- As for the Consolation ad Polybium: Lucio Anneo Seneca, Le consolazioni: a Marcia, alla madre Helvia, a Polibio, introduzione, traduzione e note di A. Traina, Milano (Rizzoli).

The understanding of the human body and its representation (1500-1700). The origin and meaning of diseases. Theories of generation. The birth of microscopy.

W. Pagel Le idee biologiche di Harvey, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1979
G. Pomata, La promessa di guarigione, Laterza, Roma, 1994
A. Carlino, La fabbrica del corpo, Einaudi, Torino, 1994
L. Daston e K. Park, Le meraviglie del mondo, Carocci, Roma, 2000
M. Conforti, A. Carlino e A. Clericuzio (a cura di), Interpretare e curare. Medicina e salute nel Rinascimento, Carocci, Roma, 2013

General aspects. Freudian theory of the unconscious. primary process and secondary process. Logic and biologic. Dreams, lips, symptoms and wits.. The Cognitive Unconscious.

Specific aspects. Unconscious process and process of artistic creation. Analogy and differences. Humor as tertiary process. The freudian concept of historical true. judaism and Christianity in the sought prof Sigmund Freud. Antisemitism and Racism in the sough of Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic exploration in art and literature. Psychoanalytic exploration in Religious experience.

Freud Sigmund. Il perturbante. In Opere Sigmund Freud. Vol V, pp 1-2011. Torino: Boringhieri, 1979.
Freud Sigmund, L’umorismo. In Opere. Vol. X, pp. 499-508. Torino: Boringhieri, 1978.
Freud Sigmund, Il motto di spirito e la sua relazione con l’inconscio. Torino: Boringhieri, 1980.
Bonaventura Enzo, La psicoanalisi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2016. Approfondimento critico.
Meghnagi David, Jewish humor on Psychoanalysis, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1989.
Meghnagi David. From the Dream of a generation to the theory of dreams: Freud’s Roman dreams. Int. Journal of Psychoanalysis (2011) 92: 675-695.
Meghnagi David, Interpretare Freud, Marsilio, 2003.

Fatti e valori: prospettive odierne.
New Perspectives on Facts and Values.

This course will illustrate some important aspects of the contemporary debate on the relationship between ethics and the construction of knowledge focusing on the “pragmatic turn” of 20th century philosophy.

1) R. Rorty, La filosofia e lo specchio della natura, Bompiani, Milano 1979.
2)G. Marchetti (a cura di), La contingenza dei fatti e l’oggettività dei valori, Mimesis,
Milano-Udine 2013.
3)R.M. Calcaterra, Filosofia della contingenza. La logica terapeutica di R. Rorty, Marietti, Genova 2016.

The course treats the issue of linguistic pathologies with a particular focus on deficits involving the discursive level of communication. The main goal is to show how language deficits represent a key to highlight to the essential characteristics of human communication. Among the cases examined, autism, schizophrenia, head trauma and aphasia will be deeply discussed.

Mandatory text:

- Adornetti I., a cura di, 2015, Pragmatica del discorso e della conversazione. Una prospettiva cognitiva, Corisco, Roma-Messina.

One books among the followings:

- Adornetti I., 2013, Il farsi e il disfarsi del discorso. Le Lettere. Firenze
- Cummings L., 2015, Pragmatica clinica, Aracne, Roma.
- Frith C., 1995, Neuropsicologia cognitiva della schizofrenia, Cortina, Milano.
- Marini A., Carlomagno S., 2004, Analisi del discorso e patologia del linguaggio, Springer Verlag.
- Surian, L., 2002, Autismo. Indagini sullo sviluppo mentale, Laterza, Roma-Bari.

The course is an introduction to the philosophy of mind informed by cognitive sciences. Cognitive science investigates complex organisms at the information-processing level of analysis, and it can be defined a peculiar level in the sense that it is suspended between two worlds. On the one hand, there is the ordinary image of ourselves as persons, namely as self-conscious, intentional, rational agents. On the other hand, we have the sub-personal sphere of the cerebral events, as investigated by neuroscience. Therefore, one of the main tasks for the philosopher of psychology is to unravel this peculiarity, trying to shed some light upon the relations between these different ways of describing ourselves. This course critically explores some classical attempts to accomplish this task.

Per gli studenti frequentanti:
Materiali forniti durante il corso.

Per gli studenti non frequentanti:
A. Paternoster - Introduzione alla filosofia della mente - Laterza, Roma 2010.
M. Marraffa e A. Paternoster - Persone, menti, cervelli - Mondadori Università, Milano 2012.

Testo consigliato (a tutti gli studenti) per approfondimenti:
Michael S Gazzaniga, Richard B Ivry, George R Mangun - Neuroscienze cognitive (seconda edizione italiana condotta sulla quarta edizione americana, a cura di A. Zani e A. Mado Proverbio) - Zanichelli, Milano 2015.

Advanced course on linguistic change, its mechanisms and explanations at the different levels of analysis. Grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, reanalysis and their relationship with Construction Grammar. Historical grammar of IE languages known by students. Etymology and its bibliografical instruments.

Benedetti, M., 203, “L’etimologia tra storia e tipologia”, in Mancini, M. (a cura di), Il mutamento linguistico, Roma, Carocci, 209-262.
Additional material will be provided during the course.