Module A
Human nature and institutions. By reading, commenting and analyzing the Vol. III (Of Morals) of "A Treatise of Human Nature" by David Hume, one intends to consider the Humean conception of the social and political institution as an affirmative, creative and inventive production of human nature.

Module B
Presentation and analysis of two conceptions of the institution - by Gilles Deleuze and Friedrich A. von Hayek - that, in the twentieth century, took up and developed the approach of Hume.

- David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Vol. III. Of Morals.

- Gilles Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature.
- Friedrich A. von Hayek, “The Legal and Political Philosophy of David Hume”, in F. A. Hayek, Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, 106–21.
- Friedrich A. von Hayek, Law, Legislation and Librerty, Vol. I (Rules and Order), parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

We will read the first part of Hegel's Aesthetics Lessons.

G.W.F. Hegel, Lezioni di Estetica, Roma-Bari, Laterza: Parte generale: le forme universali dell’arte. Parte speciale (tutta).
A. Siani, M. Farina (a cura di), L’estetica di Hegel , Bologna, Il Mulino: Introduzione e capp. VII-XIV.

The animal that has its essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre, L’essere e il nulla, Il Saggiatore (Tascabili) 2002. Limited to the chapter “Fare e avere”, pp. 633-97. Available in photocopy.

Texts on friendship (Aristotle, Derrida, etc.) in relation to the verb 'to have'. Available in photocopy.

Texts on deprivation/sex and debit/credit as emotional tonalities and anthropological determinations (Meister Eckart, Simone Weil etc.). Available in photocopy.

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.
In the course will be read and commented texts by Maine de Biran, Ravaisson and William James and the main interpretations of the scholars on their doctrines will be discussed.

1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018.
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019
3. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, D. Vincenti (ed.), Milan, Mimesis, 2019 (original English text available online at the URL = ).
4. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

A text chosen from:
5.1 Maine de Biran, Introduzione all'Influenza dell'abitudine sulla facoltà di pensare, G. Grasso (ed.), Chieti, Edizioni Solfanelli, 2017
5.2 Félix Ravaisson, L’abitudine, S. Capodivacca (ed.), Turin, Ananke, 2009

The examination program will concern the Commentary of Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle's Metaphysics, with particular regard to the main questions concerning ontology and theology.
A comparative knowledge of the multiple lines of interpretation of the philosophy of Aristotle of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is required.

A. De Libera, La filosofia medievale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1991.
E. Gilson, Il Tomismo, Jaca Book, Milano, 2008.
Tommaso d’Aquino, Commento alla Metafisica di Aristotele, ESD, Bologna 2009, Vol. III, Libro 12.
Giovanni Duns Scoto, Commento alle Sentenze. Ordinatio. Libro primo. Distinzione terza, Casa Mariana Editrice, Frigento (AV) 2018.

'Civil society' and 'State' between Hegel and the young Marx
The course provides students with in-depth knowledge of the notion of 'society' as elaborated in modern and contemporary thought, by focusing on: a) the relationship between society, social classes, individuals; b) the relationship between social institutions and political sovereignty. The student will acquire critical skills and learn to retrace the historical genealogies of philosophical concepts. They will also acquire tools to interpret current tensions between social movements and political institutions.

Hegel G.W.F., Lineamenti di filosofia del diritto (ed. Laterza); Parte Terza, L’eticità (con particolare attenzione alle sezioni II e III; in particolare ai paragrafi da 182 a 320);
Marx K., Critica della filosofia hegeliana del diritto pubblico (ed. Quodlibet);
Bobbio N., Studi hegeliani. Diritto, società civile, Stato (ed. Einaudi); 2 articoli, dal titolo: Hegel e il giusnaturalismo (pp. 3-33); Hegel e il diritto (pp. 35-68);
Negri A., Oltre la modernità: dalla crisi del cosmopolitismo alla critica del lavoro, in Pandolfi A. (a cura di), Nel pensiero politico moderno (ed. manifestolibri), pp. 517-534;
Abensour M., La democrazia contro lo Stato. Marx e il momento machiavelliano (ed. Cronopio); Prefazione alla seconda edizione (pp. 17-32), capp. III e V (pp.: 77-86; 99-131).

Bodypolitics.

From the environmental crisis to the management of migratory flows up to security measures, life and death reappear as crucial problems of thought and political intervention. The modern partition between nature and society, between homo and civis has been replaced by the new intersections identified through the concept of biopolitics and the more recent terms of thanatopolitics and necropolitics. Reference authors will be discussed in order to identify the different conceptions of the body at work in the respective analyses - between passivity and activity, singularity and generalization, agency and representation.

Two essays from the following list:
Due testi a scelta tra i seguenti:
- A. Cavarero, Corpo in figure. Filosofia e politica della corporeità, Feltrinelli, Milano 2005
- M. Foucault, Nascita della biopolitica. Corso al Collège de France (1978-1979), Feltrinelli, Milano 2005
- G. Deleuze, Cosa può un corpo. Lezioni su Spinoza, Ombre Corte, Verona 2010; G. Deleuze, Istinti e istituzioni, Mimesis, Milano 2014
- Donna J. Haraway, Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo, Feltrinelli, Milano 2018
- J. Butler, Corpi che contano. Sui limiti discorsivi del “sesso”, Feltrinelli, Milano 1996
- R. Braidotti, Madri mostri e macchine, manifestolibri, Roma 2005
- R. Esposito, Bios. Biopolitica e filosofia, Einaudi, Torino 2004
- A. Mbembe, Necropolitica, Ombre Corte, Verona 2016

NATIONALISM AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY: THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT
This course intends to investigate nationalism as a distinctive historical phenomenon of contemporary age, with a particular reference to European history. An analysis of several theories of nation and nationalism will serve as introductory part of the course, in which various elaborations of thinking on the idea of nation will be examined as well as the different interpretative hypotheses on nation and nationalism. European history from World War I to the post World War II era will be reconsidered stressing the topic of nationalism and its manifold influence on historical processes of the continent and its connections with other geopolitical areas. The dynamic relationship between globalization and internationalism trends and radicalization of nationalisms will be explored. A particular focus will be devoted to the revival of nationalisms after the end of the Cold War and in the first two decades of the 21st century.

1. Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949, Penguin Press 2016
2. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso Books 2016 (Revised edition)
3. Anthony D. Smith, Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History, Polity Press 2010 (Revised edition)
4. Colin Crouch, The Globalization Backlash, Polity Press 2018

Emotions: definition, biological and social functions, types of emotions. Emotion regulation, expression and communication. Primary emotions, image, cognitive, social, and moral emotions. Their role in interpersonal interaction, on the job, in learning and education, politics, art, music, entertainment.
Definition of communication. Cognitive, affective, relational processes implied in communication in all of its modalities (words and sentences, prosody, gestures, facial expression, gaze, physical contact, posture, proxemics, music) and through face-to-face and technological media. Analysis and detection of sincere and deceptive, cooperative and aggressive communication, nad its uses in interpersonal interaction, work, education, politics, entertainment.

The items to be studied for the oral exam are the following:

A. D’Urso V. e Trentin R.: Introduzione alla psicologia delle emozioni. Laterza, Bari 2006.
B. Poggi I. (a cura di): La mente del cuore. Armando, Roma 2008.
C. Lotto L. e Rumiati R. (a cura di). Introduzione alla psicologia della comunicazione. Il Mulino, Bologna 2019 (nuova edizione): except for chapters 3, 4, 5, 10, 11.
D. Poggi I.: Le parole del corpo. Introduzione alla comunicazione multimodale. Carocci, Roma 2006.
E. Castelfranchi C. e Poggi I.: Bugie, finzioni, sotterfugi, per una scienza dell’inganno, Carocci, Roma 2012.
F. One text or set of texts, chosen among the following 19 items:

1. Castelfranchi C.: Che figura. Emozioni e immagine sociale. Il Mulino, Bologna 2005.
2. Nussbaum, M.: L’intelligenza delle emozioni. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
3. Matarazzo O. e Zammuner V. (a cura di): La regolazione delle emozioni. Il Mulino, Bologna 2012.
4. Ledoux J.: Il cervello emotivo. Baldini e Castoldi, Milano 2005.
5. Damasio A.R.: Emozione e coscienza. Adelphi, Milano 2010.
6. Miceli M. e Castelfranchi C.: Expectancy and Emotion. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013.
7. D’Amico A.: Intelligenza emotiva e metaemotiva. Il Mulino, Bologna. 2018.
8. Palvarini P.: Le emozioni che rendono forti. Il lavoro con le emozioni in psicoterapia. Alpes Italia.
9. Bazzanella C.: Linguistica cognitiva. Un’introduzione. Laterza, Bari 2014.
10. Levorato M.C.: Le emozioni della lettura. Mulino, Bologna, 1999.
11. Gallese V. e Guerra M.: Lo schermo empatico. Cinema e neuroscienze. Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2015.
12. Boulez P., Changeux J.P. e Manoury P.: I neuroni magici. Musica e cervello. Carocci, Roma 2016.
13. Mado Proverbio A.: Neuroscienze cognitive della musica. Il cervello musicale tra arte e scienza. Bologna, Zanichelli 2019
14. Cavalieri R. e Chiricò D.: Parlare, segnare. Introduzione alla fisiologia e alla patologia delle lingue verbali e dei segni. Bologna, Il Mulino.
15. Benedetti F.: L’effetto placebo. Breve viaggio tra mente e corpo. Roma, Carocci 2018.
16. Both of the following books:
a. Arielli E. e Bottazzini P.: Idee virali. Perché i pensieri si diffondono. Bologna, Il Mulino.
b. Riva G.: I social network. Bologna, Il Mulino

17. Both of the following books:
a. Cavazza N.: Pettegolezzi e reputazione. Bologna, Il Mulino.
b. Riva G.: Fake news: vivere e sopravvivere in un mondo post-verità. Bologna, Il Mulino

18. 4 papers about emotions chosen among the following, to be downloaded from:
http://www.comunicazione.uniroma3.it/it/page/25/_/___22


Castelfranchi C. & Poggi I. (1990): "Blushing as a Discourse: Was Darwin Wrong?". In R.Crozier (Ed.) Shyness and Embarrassment. Perspectives from social Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp.230-251.

Poggi I. & Zuccaro V.: “Admiration”. Proceedings of the Workshop AFFINE: Affective Interaction in Natural Environment, Post-conference workshop of ICMI 2008, Chania, Crete, 24 sept. 2008.

Poggi I. & D’Errico F., (2009) “The mental ingredients of Bitterness”. Journal of multimodal user interface. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s12193-009-0021-9

Poggi I, D’Errico F (2012) Pride and its expression in political debates. In Paglieri F, Tummolini L, Falcone R & Miceli M (eds) The goals of cognition. Festschrift for Cristiano Castelfranchi, London College Publications, London, pp. 221-253; 978-1-84890-094-3.

D’Errico F., Poggi I. (2014) Acidity. Emotional causes, effects, and multimodal communication. In A. Freitas-Magalhães (Ed.), Emotional Expression: The Brain and The Face (Vol.5). Porto: University Fernando Pessoa Press, pp.341-368.

D’Errico Francesca, Poggi Isabella (2016). Social emotions. A challenge for sentiment analysis and User Models. In: D’Errico F. Poggi I. (a cura di): Tkalčič M. De Carolis B. de Gemmis M. Odić A. Košir A., Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services. Models, Evaluation and Applications. vol. Social Emotions. A Challenge for Sentiment Analysis and User Models, Berlin:Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-319-31411-2, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-31413-6

Poggi I. e Magno Caldognetto E.: “Il parlato emotivo. Aspetti cognitivi, linguistici e fonetici”. Atti del Convegno Il parlato italiano. Napoli, 12-15 febbraio 2003. Napoli, D’Auria. CdRom, 2004.

Poggi I., Pelachaud, C. & De Carolis B. (2001): “To display or not to display? Towards the architecture of a Reflexive Agent”. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Attitude, “Personality and Emotions in User-adapted Interaction”. User Modeling 2001, Sonthofen (Germany), 13-17 July 2001.

Poggi I., and D’Errico, F. (2018): “Feeling offended”. A Blow to Our Image and Our Social Relationships. Frontiers in Psychology. January 17, 2018. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02221/full
19. 4 papers about multimodal communication, chosen among the following, to be downloaded from:
http://www.comunicazione.uniroma3.it/it/page/25/_/___22

Vincze L., Poggi I. (2013) Multimodal markers of One's Own and the Other's Vagueness. AI*HCI 2013, Workshop of the XIII AI*IA Conference, December 4th

Poggi I., D'Errico F. (2013) Towards the Parody Machine. Qualitative analysis and cognitive processes in the parody of a politician. In A. Petrosino,

D'Errico F and Poggi I., Vincze L. (2013) Discrediting body. A multimodal strategy to spoil the other's image. In Poggi I., D'Errico F. (et al.; eds)

D'Errico, F., Vincze L. Poggi, I. (2013). Vagueness in Political Discourse. In S. Villalta & Cabrio (eds) Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on

Poggi I, D'Errico F., Vincze L. (2013) Comments in words, face and body. Journal of multimodal users interface. Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2013), Page 67-78; DO

D'Errico, F., Vincze L. Poggi, I. (2013). Face and head comments. Taking the floor without words. In Mello, H., Pettorino, M., and Raso, T., editors,

Signorello, R., D'Errico, F., Poggi, I., Demolin, D., and Mairano, P. (2013). Charisma perception in political speech: a case study. In Mello, H., Pet

D'Errico F., Signorello R., Poggi I..(2013) The perception of charisma from voice. A cross-cultural study. Proceedings of Aci Conference, IEEE, pp. 55-

D’Errico F. and Poggi I.: “The Bitter Laughter”. When Parody Is a Moral and Affective Priming in Political Persuasion. Frontiers in Psychology, 09 August 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01144 (Scaricabile direttamente da Frontiers)
Other texts can be substituted for those at item F. upon agreement with the teacher.

The course aims to show the relationship between activity and passivity of consciousness analyzing the concepts of perception, affectivity, unconscious, interest, association, judgment in Husserl.

Edmund Husserl, Lectures on Passive Synthesis, La Scuola, 2016.
Martino Feyles, (ed.), Memory, imagination and technique, Roma NEU 2010.
Alice Pugliese, The motive for the experience: constitution, drive and ethics in Edmund Husserl, Udine, Mimesis 2014.

the politics of technology

Philosophy of technology is a relatively recent discipline that deals with relationships between Technology, knowledge and society.
The course wants to answer to the following questions:
What is technology?
Is it possible to think about science without a reflexion on technology in the present technoscientific environment?
Which are the relationships between society and technology?
Which are the relevant changes introduced by technology in living styles?
Is it possible to consider technology as neutral and value and ideology free?
Technology has a relevant and permanent influence on science and on knowledge building in general but also on the definition of society and its working assets. Technical artefacts produce changes on society and are influenced by social choices, political constraints and economical investments.
In this course we will discuss the importance of philosophy of technology for philosophy itself, if we accept the idea that philosophy is a research for understanding and for acting on present. If we accept this perspective we cannot ignore the importance of technology.
Technology is created according to projects, objectives and standards on which society has no direct control, but technical objects have relevant consequences on the functioning of social practices including the epistemological ones.
Technology is a normative discipine (different from science). Its object is not the study of how things are in the world. it imposes an organization on the world in order for its devices to work correctly. It proposes and orders a regulation for society and it is in need that society imposes a regulation on its implementation: not all that it is feasible technically it is allowed.

Morozov E. Bria F.(2018) Ripensare la smart city, Codice, Milano.
Parini E. G. e Pellegrino G.(eds) (2009) S come scienza T come tecnica e riflessione sociologica, Liguori Ed., Milano, pp. 120-264.
Stiegler B.(2015) Platone digitale, Mimesis, Milano.

This course will provide students with an introduction to some of the main topics in philosophy of mind. The course will be broken down into two parts. In the first part, we will look mostly at recent versions of “functionalist” theories of mind. On the basis of that introduction and overview, we shall then discuss a series of very recent debates in the philosophy of mind that centre around the view that the mind is a physical and naturally evolved computational device.

M. Di Francesco, M. Marraffa, A. Tomasetta - Filosofia della mente. Corpo, coscienza, pensiero. Carocci, Roma 2017.

The course will explore the problem of the relationship between self-consciousness and identity by comparing the ideas about this intricate subject proposed by John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, William James, Sigmund Freud, Ernesto De Martino, Ronald Laing and Anthony Giddens.

A. Kind, Persons and Personal Identity, Polity Press, Cambridge 2015.
E. De Martino, Magic. A theory from the South (translated by D. L. Zinn), The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2015 (orig. ed. 1959).
R. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, Penguin Classics, London 2010.
A. Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity. Self and Society in the Late Modern Age, Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 1991.

The course is composed of two 6-credit modules

First module: the value of scientific knowledge I: the scientific realism vs. antirealism debate
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the debate concerning scientific realism, presenting the main philosophical positions concerning the epistemic status of scientific theories, the aims of science and the idea of scientific progress

Second module: the value of scientific knowledge II: science, society and common sense
The aim of this module is to provide students with an overview ofthe main issues related to a) the social dimension of science and the sociology of science and b) the relationship between science and the commonsense image of the world

First module:

- C. Gabbani, Realismo e antirealismo scientifico, ETS
- I. Hacking, Conoscere e sperimentare, Laterza (capitoli 1-11 e capitolo 16)
- B. Van Fraassen: L’immagine scientifica, CLUEB, capitoli 1-4
- J. Worrall: ‘Il realismo scientifico e l’etere luminifero: contro la “meta-induzione” pessimistica’ in A. Pagnini (a cura di), Realismo/Antirealismo. Aspetti del dibattito epistemologico contemporaneo, La Nuova Italia, pp. 167-203
- L. Laudan, ‘Un approccio al progresso scientifico fondato sulla soluzione di problemi’, in I. Hacking, G. Giorello, Rivoluzioni scientifiche, Laterza, pp. 189-207

Second module:

- A. Lavazza, M. Marraffa, La guerra dei mondi, Codice (parti scelte, da definire durante il corso)
- M. Bucchi, Scienza e società, R. Cortina
- P. Feyerabend, ‘Come difendere la società contro la scienza’, in I. Hacking, G. Giorello, Rivoluzioni scientifiche, Laterza, pp. 209-228

[English translations or equivalents will be provided upon request]

The animal that has its essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre, L’essere e il nulla, Il Saggiatore (Tascabili) 2002. Limited to the chapter “Fare e avere”, pp. 633-97. Available in photocopy.

Texts on friendship (Aristotle, Derrida, etc.) in relation to the verb 'to have'. Available in photocopy.

Texts on deprivation/sex and debit/credit as emotional tonalities and anthropological determinations (Meister Eckart, Simone Weil etc.). Available in photocopy.

The course will focus on Aristotle, Posterior Analytics 1.3, 1.7-11.
Aristotle's text will be explained in detail and the following aspects will be considered:
1: The structure of demonstrative science according to Aristotle and the status of principles
2: Principles and subordinate sciences
3: The status of universals

a] Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, Translated with a Commentary by J. Barnes, Clarendon Press, Oxford 2002 (second edition), pp. xi-xxv (Introduction); 2-4, 12-15 (ch. 2; 7-11); 89-103, 130-148 (Commentary).

[b] A. Marmodoro – E. Mayr, Breve introduzione alla metafisica, Carocci, Roma, 2017.
M. Vegetti – F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele, Einaudi, Torino, 2016.
R. Smith, Aristotle’s Logic, “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2018 Edition)”, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2018/entries/aristotle-logic/
H. Mendell, Aristotle and Mathematics, “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2017 Edition)”, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2017/entries/aristotle-mathematics/

[c] Students are required to prepare a paper in Italian or English (3.000 words) about one of the following topics:

[i] Knowledge and Understanding
Bibliography: texts of sections [a] e [b] should be supplemented with:
M. Burnyeat, Aristotle on Understanding Knowledge, in E. Berti (ed.), Aristotle on Science: The “Posterior Analytics”, Antenore, Padova, 1981, pp. 97–140.

[ii] Deduction, syllogism, demonstration
Bibliography: texts of sections [a] e [b] should be supplemented with:
J. Barnes, Proof and the Syllogism, in E. Berti (ed.), Aristotle on Science: The “Posterior Analytics”, Antenore, Padova, 1981, pp. 17-59.

[iii] Subordinate sciences
Bibliography: texts of sections [a] e [b] should be supplemented with:
R.D. McKirahan, Aristotle’s Subordinate Sciences, «The British Journal for the History of Science» 11 (1978) 197-220.

“I will made of it, istead of a tragedy, a comic play”: Plautus’ Amphitruo. In the course a literary setting of the comedy will be offered, toghether with a close reading of the latin text, with italian interpretation and a full commentary, paying particular attention to the aspects of staging and poetical shape (models, metrics, style).

- Tito Maccio Plauto, Anfitrione, a cura di R. Oniga. Introduzione di M. Bettini, ed. Marsilio; or: Plautus, Amphitruo, ed. by D. M. Christenson, Cambridge University Press.
- Plauto, Molière, Kleist, Giraudoux, Anfitrione. Variazioni sul mito, a cura di L. Pasetti, ed. Marsilio.

The course deals with the Bretton Woods currency system and the financial and trading networks of the 20th century; special emphasis is given to the problems of the integration of the underdeveloped countries into the global economy.

I. Cycles and trends in the Second World War
- The conversion of war economies and the rise of mixed economies.
II. The circuits of international trade.
- The Marshall Plan, the birth of the European Union and the Comecon.
- The integration of developing countries and neo 70s.
- The return to free trade in the 80s and the birth of the World Trade Organization.
III. Currency systems
- The Bretton Woods currency system.
- Apogee and decline of the gold-dollar standard exchange rate and flexible regional monetary agreements.

Attending students (only one of the follows):

H. Van der Wee, L’economia mondiale tra crisi e benessere, Milano, Hoepli, 1998, capp. 1-2 e 7-12.
G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CADEM, 2013, capp. 12-18.

Plus:

L. Conte, V. Torreggiani, Istituzioni, capitali e moneta. Storia dei sistemi finanziari contemporanei, Milano, Mondadori, 2017, capp. 4-5 + Epilogo.

Non-attending students (add to above-mentioned books):

Fornasari, La banca, la borsa, lo Stato. Una storia della finanza (secc. XIII-XXI), Torino, Giappichelli, 2017.

The course deals with the processes of cooperation for development and the formation of trade regional agreements in Latin American, in the Mediterranean area, in the Near and Far East areas from the early twentieth century to the present.

Non-attending students:

H. Van der Wee, L’economia mondiale tra crisi e benessere, Milano, Hoepli, 1998, capp. 1-2 e 7-12.
G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CADEM, 2013, capp. 12-18.
R. Gilpin, Economia politica globale. Le relazioni economiche internazionali nel XXI secolo, Milano, Università Bocconi Editore 2008.

Logic and Arithmetic: incompleteness

Part 1: Decidability and fundamental results of recursion theory. Primitive recursive functions and elementary functions: definitions and examples, elementary coding of the finite sequences of natural numbers, an alternative definition of the set of elementary functions. Ackermann's function and the (partial) recursive functions. Arithmetical hierarchy and representation (in N) of recursive functions. Arithmetization of syntax: coding of terms and formulas, satisfiability in N of Delta formulas is elementary, coding of sequence and derivations. The fundamental theorems of recursion theory. Decidability, semi-decidability, undecidability.

Part 2: Peano arithmetic. Peano's axioms and first order Peano’s axioms. The models of (first order) Peano arithmetic. The representable functions in (first order) Peano arithmetic. Incompleteness and undecidability: Church’s undecidability theorem, fixed point, Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem, Gödel’s second incompleteness theorem, final remarks on incompleteness, hints on incompleteness and second order logic.

V. Michele Abrusci e Lorenzo Tortora de Falco, Logica. Vol. 2 Incompletezza, teoria assiomatica degli insiemi, Springer, 2018

An introduction to Data Mining and Data Journalism by means of the Python programming language.

Realism and relativism. Neo-pragmatist lines.

The course will focus on:
- Introduction to the concepts of realism and relativism
- R. Rorty's criticism of modern and contemporary foundationalist realism.
- Realism in H. Putnam and the controversy with R. Rorty on reality, truth and epistemic relativism.
- Outlines of the debate on Putnam and Rorty.

R. Rorty, Philosophy and The Mirror of Nature Princeton Univ Pr, 2017, Parts I and II.
R. Rorty, Truth and Progress, Cambridge University Press, 2010, chapters (photocopies available): “Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry? Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright", pp 19-42; “Hilary Putnam and the Relativist Menace", pp 43-62; “John Searle on Realism and Relativism" pp 63-83.
H. Putnam, Realism with a Human Face, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp 105-140 (photocopies available).
H. Putnam, The antinomy of realism, in Idem, The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World, Columbia University Press 2001, pp. 11-40.
B. Williams, “Epistemology and the Mirror of Nature,” in Rorty and his Critics, Robert Brandom (ed.), Blackwel, 2000, pp. 191 – 213 (disponibile in fotocopia)
M.Dell’Utri, Il pragmatismo conteso. Rorty vs Putnam (via Davidson), in “Annali della facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell’Univ. di Sassari 2001, pp. 283-305 (disponibile in fotocopia)
M. Bastianelli, Realtà e verità in Hilary Putnam, in Vinti (a cura di), Le forme della razionalità tra realismo e normatività, Mimesis , pp. 75-88 ( disponibile in fotocopia)
R.M. Calcaterra, Contingency and Normativity. The Challenges of Richard Rorty, Brill-Rodopi 2019, pp. 11-68 ( disponibile online)

Suggested Texts:
R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti (eds.), Il Pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei (a cura di) Carocci, 20184, pp. 47-170, 191-224, 289-346.
E. Picardi, “Pragmatismo e teorie del significato: Rorty, Davidson, Brandom” in R.M. Calcaterra (a cura di), Pragmatismo e filosofia analitica, Quodlibet 2006, pp. 139-158 (disponibile in fotocopia)
M. Dell’Utri, Ontologia pragmatica in P.L.Lecis, V. Busacchi, P. Salis ( a cura di), Realtà, verità, rappresentazione, Franco Angeli 2015, pp. 53-64 (disponibile in fotocopia).
Idem, Il valore della verità: Paolo Parrini e Richard Rorty, in R. Lanfredini, A. Peruzzi ( a cura di), A Plea for Balance in Philosophy, ETS, 2013, pp.423-436.
A. Vieth, Richard Rorty. His philosophy under discussion,  De Gruyter, 2013.
B. T. Ramberg, Davidson and Rorty: Triangulation and Anti-Foundationalism, in J. Malpas & H.-H. Gander (eds.), Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, Routledge, New York 2014, Chap. 17.

Kant's "Critique of the Faculty of Judgement" between aesthetics, ethics and epistemology. Reading and commentary on the "Critique of the Faculty of Teleology of Judgement".

The course aims to deepen the relationship between aesthetics, ethics and epistemology through the reading and commenting of the second part of Kant's "Critique of the faculty of judgement", the "Critique of the faculty of teleology of judgement". The "Preface" and the second "Introduction" to the CFJ will be examined and commented on, in order to bring out the problems that bind aesthetics, epistemology and, finally, ethics, in Kant's reflection of the 1890s, examining in particular the interpretation of Emilio Garroni. A few hours of the course will be dedicated to themes of Kant's epistemology relevant to contemporary epistemology in the Introduction and in the "Critique of the Faculty of Teleology of Judgement" (with a comparison with Scaravelli's criticism) and will be made with the contribution of a PhD in Philosophy of Science. A few hours will be devoted to an introduction to the "Critique of the aesthetic faculty of judgment", which is part of the examination program.

Immanuel Kant, "Critica della facoltà di giudizio", a cura di E. Garroni e H. Hohenegger, Einaudi, Torino 1999 (tutto, pp. 3-317).
Emilio Garroni, Estetica ed epistemologia. Riflessioni sulla «Critica del giudizio» di Kant, Unicopli, Milano, 1998 (prima edizione Bulzoni, Roma, 1976).
Testi facoltativi:
Francesca Menegoni, La critica del giudizio di Kant. Introduzione alla lettura, Carocci, Milano 1995.
Luigi Scaravelli, "Osservazioni sulla critica del giudizio", in Scritti kantiani, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1973, pp. 337-528.

The course focuses on language pathologies, with particular attention to the deficits related to the discursive communication. Among the cases discusses, there are the communicative deficits characterizing pathologies such as autism, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury. In such cases, as well as in many neuropsychological and psychopathological disorders, the communicative impairments mainly concern the level of discourse and depend on deficits that primarily involve the cognitive dimension, rather than the linguistic one. Thus, the study of discourse disorders is particularly useful to investigate a more general question that is extremely relevant from a theoretical point of view: the relationships between language and cognition.

Mandatory:

- Adornetti I., 2018, Patologie del linguaggio e della comunicazione. Carocci, Roma


One book among the following:

- Bambini V., 2017, Il cervello pragmatico, Carocci (Le Bussole), Roma.
- Cardella V., 2013, Perdersi nei giochi linguistici. Schizofrenia, filosofia del linguaggio e scienze cognitive, Corisco, Roma-Messina.
- Surian, L., 2002, Autismo. Indagini sullo sviluppo mentale, Laterza, Roma-Bari.

A) STRUCTURAL RULES EXPRESSED AS LOGICAL RULES: SEQUENT CALCULUS AND DERIVABILITY IN LINEAR LOGIC
B) POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE: FOCUSED SEQUENT CALCULUS FOR LINEAR LOGIC, LUDICS
C) IMPLICIT COMPLEXITY AND LINEAR LOGIC
D) GEOMETRY OF PROOFS: PROOF NETS IN LINEAR LOGIC
E) INVARIANTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTION OF PROOFS: COHERENT SPACES, GEOMETRY OF INTERACTION


The course will be held during in the second semester of the academic year 2018-19 (25.02.2019 – 04.04.2019). The course is an introduction to to Linear Logic, given by two teachers
Prof. Jean-Baptiste Joinet (Université Lyon 3, Lyon, France)
Prof. Vito Michele Abrusci (Università Roma Tre, Roma, Italia)

Program
- Provability and proofs in linear logic
- Semantics of provability and semantics of proofs in linear logic
- Complexity and linear logic
- Applications of linear logic

The program will be performed by Jean-Baptiste Joinet in the first part of course and by V. Michele Abrusci in the second part of course, under two complementary approaches

I part: Lectures given by Jean-Baptiste Joinet
25.02.2019, 13:00-16:00
28.02.2019, 11:00-14:00
04.03.2019, 13:00-16:00
07.03.2019, 11:00-14:00
11.03.2019, 13:00-14:00
14.03.2019, 11:00-14:00

II part: Lectures given by Vito Michele Abrusci
18.03.2019, 13:00-16:00
21.03.2019, 11:00-14:00
25.03.2019, 13:00-16:00
28.03.2019, 11:00-14:00
01.04.2019, 13:00-16:00
04.04.2019, 11:00-14:00

Lectures will be held at the following address
Scuola di Lettere Filosofia Lingua
Via Ostiense 234
Roma
Metro B : Marconi

Languages: Italian and English

Participation is free. Those interested in participating are invited to communicate their name to the address vitomichele.abrusci@uniroma3.it as soon as possible.

V. MICHELE ABRUSCI, LEZIONI DI LOGICA LINEARE, 2018 (FORTH COMING)

Introduction to set theory: aggregates and sets, necessity of a theory, ordinals and cardinals, antinomies and paradoxes, main characteristics of axiomatic set theory. Zermelo’s axiomatic set theory and Zermelo-Fraenkel’s axiomatic set theory: preliminaries and conventions, Zermelo’s axioms, the replacement axiom and Zermelo-Fraenkel’s theory, extensions of the language by definition. Ordinals: orders, well-orders and well-foundedness, well-foundedness and induction principle, the ordinal numbers, well-orders and ordinals, ordinal induction (proofs and definitions), diagonal argument and limit ordinals, infinity axiom and ordinal arithmetic, hints on the use of ordinals in proof-theory. Axiom of choice: equivalent formulations (and proof of the equivalence), infinite sets and axiom of choice. Cardinals: equipotent sets and infinite sets, the cardinal numbers, cardinal arithmetic.

V. Michele Abrusci e Lorenzo Tortora de Falco, Logica. Vol. 2 Incompletezza, teoria assiomatica degli insiemi, Springer, 2018

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, Marina, 2003, “L’etimologia fra tipologia e storia”, in M. Mancini (a cura di), Il cambiamento linguistico, Roma, Carocci, 209-262.
Additional material will be provided during the course.

The course aims to show the relationship between activity and passivity of consciousness analyzing the concepts of perception, affectivity, unconscious, interest, association, judgment in Husserl.

Edmund Husserl, Lectures on Passive Synthesis, La Scuola, 2016.
Martino Feyles, (ed.), Memory, imagination and technique, Roma NEU 2010.
Alice Pugliese, The motive for the experience: constitution, drive and ethics in Edmund Husserl, Udine, Mimesis 2014.

The course aims to investigate the conception of religion in Freud's and Jung's psychoanalysis in comparison with the concept of angst in Kierkegaard.

Kierkegaard, Malattia mortale e Il concetto di angoscia
S. Freud, Legittimità di separare dalla nevrastenia un preciso complesso di
sintomi come ‘nevrosi d’angoscia’ (1894), in Id., Opere complete, vol. II, pp. 177-192
Azioni ossessive e pratiche religiose (1907), ivi, vol. V, p. 341- 54
L’avvenire di un’illusione (1927) ivi, vol. X, pp. 435-485
Un esperienza religiosa (1927)
L’uomo Mosé e la religione monoteistica (1934-38), ivi,
vol. XI
K.G. Jung (1938/40), Psicologia della religione

The course will start with an introduction to Deleuze's thought, then move on to the reading and commentary of some passages of Logica del senso (1969) focusing on the concepts of becoming and event. The second part of the course will follow some literary traces present in the 1969 text, and will deal with the relationship between literature and philosophy in Deleuze's thought, focusing in particular on some authors.

G. Deleuze, Logica del senso, Feltrinelli, Milano.
G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, Kafka, per una letteratura minore, Quodlibet, Macerata.
G. Deleuze, C. Parnet, Conversazioni, Ombre corte, Verona, in partic. capp. I e II.
G. Deleuze, Critica e clinica, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, in partic. capp. 1, 3, 4, 10.

A reading of your choice among:
L. Carroll, Alice nel paese delle meraviglie, qualsiasi edizione.
F. Kafka, Il processo, qualsiasi edizione.
H. Melville, Bartleby lo scrivano e Billy Budd, qualsiasi edizione.

A reading of your choice among:
M. Duras, Il rapimento di Lol V. Stein, qualsiasi edizione.
C. Lispector, Acqua viva, qualsiasi edizione.

The course focuses on the relationship between language and narrative from a cognitive and evolutionary point of view. In contrast to the theories considering the sentence as the essence of language, the course suggests an interpretative hypothesis based on the priority of discourse over sentence; specifically, it is suggested that the ability to tell stories is the distinctive trait both of language and human nature.
The course includes experimental activities aimed at supporting the theoretical model proposed.

Mandatory books:
- Corballis M. (2020, in stampa), La verità sul linguaggio, Carocci, Roma (in uscita ad aprile 2020)
- Scott-Phillips (2017) Dì quello che hai in mente. Le origini della comunicazione umana, Carocci, Roma
- Caruana F., Borghi A. (2016) Il cervello in azione, Il Mulino, Bologna

We will read and comment 'The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology'.

E. Husserl, La crisi delle scienze europee e la fenomenologia trascendentale, Il Saggiatore.

The course aims to highlight three models of philosophical anthropology: the essence of human being and her "position in the cosmos" by Scheler, human being as "particular project of nature" by Gehlen and the "eccentric positionality" of the human being by Plessner.

Maria Teresa Pansera, La specificità dell’umano. Percorsi di antropologia filosofica, Inschibboleth, Roma 2019;
Max Scheler, La posizione dell’uomo nel cosmo, Armando Roma 2006:
Arnod Gehlen, L’uomo nell’era della tecnica, Armando, Roma, 2003;
Helmuth Plessner, Antropologia dei sensi, Cortina, Milano 2008.

The course deals especially with a series of texts directly or indirectly linked to the theme of philosophical or aesthetic education in Western philosophy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – from Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche to Arendt, Lyotard and Danto – in order to compare them with the particular attitude of conceiving philosophy as a way of life in China and Japan. The theoretical texts will be accompanied by eight films that problematize some great questions about education, existence and freedom of thought.

a)
- I. Kant: Che cosa significa orientarsi nel pensiero? Mimesis, Milano 2015.
- G.W.F. Hegel: La Scuola. Discorsi e relazioni, Norimberga 1808-1816, Ed. Riuniti, Roma 1993, pp. 43-98.

b)
- F. Nietzsche: Schopenhauer come educatore, Adelphi, Milano 1985.
- H. Arendt, Socrate, Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2015.

c)
- J. F. Lyotard, Pourquoi philosopher? Presses Universitaires de France 2015
- A.C. Danto: "The Artworld," Journal of Philosophy 61 (1964), 571-584.

d)
- F. Jullien, De l'Être au vivre, Lexique euro-chinois de la pensée, Gallimard, 2015, (students may choose three chapters)
- D. Richie, A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics, Stone Bridge Press, 2007.

Students (whether attending or not) should choose one text from each session (a, b, c, d) for a total of four texts. In addition, the attending students will have to choose one of the following texts (both compulsory for the non attending students):


E. Morin, Enseigner à vivre. Manifeste pour changer l'éducation, Actes Sud Editions, 2014.

or

M.C. Nussbaum: Cultivating Humanity. A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education. Harvard University Press 1998.


The following films will be shown in the classroom, followed by a debate and accompanied by a critical reflection questionnaire (which must also be watched by non-attendants):

Doubt (2008) by John Patrick Shanley
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (1974) by Werner Herzog
A torinói ló (2011) by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky
Hannah Arendt (2013) by Margarethe von Trotta
The Tree of Life (2011) by Terrence Malick
The square (2017) by Ruben Östlund
Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise (2002) by Dai Sijie
An (2015) by Naomi Kawase

The course focuses on the relationship between the metaphysics and the history and the philosophy of space and time, with particular attention to the notion of space. In its first part, it will focus on a reading and critical discussion of classic texts in the history of theories of space from Zeno to Aristotle, from Descartes, to Newton and Leibniz, and from Poincaré to Einstein, both as they have been collected by Huggett and with integrations of the literature provided by the teacher. In the second part, it will concentrate on topics that are more oriented toward the metaphysical problems of time, regarded in their interrelation with theories emerging from modern and contemporary physics.

N.Huggett, (ed), Space from Zeno to Einstein, The Mit Press, 2000
B. Dainton, Time and Space, 2 ed, 2010, McGill Queens, 2010, 2 ed.

We will read a number of papers on the relation between brain and consciousness.
The reading and comment of the papers will focus on the following points:
1) Concepts of consciousness in contemporary philosophy and neuroscience: phenomenal consciousness, access consciousness, affective consciousness, attention, etc.
2) Contemporary formulations of classic theories of the mind-body relation (materialism, dualism, etc.) and most debated models of the neural correlates of consciousness (Global Workspace Theory, Higher Order Theory, Information Integration Theory).
3) Thought experiments and philosophical problems concerning the brain-consciousness problem: limits of functionalism, neural correlates of consciousness, metaphysical interpretations, consciousness in non-human animals.

a) D. Chalmers (ed.), Philosophy of Mind, Oxford University Press 2002 (selected articles).
- More contemporary articles presented and discussed in classes.

b) P. Pecere, Brain, consciousness and cognition. A historical introduction from Descartes to today, Springer 2020.

The syllabus concerns the relationship between law and morals. After an introductory part, aimed at presenting the essential terms of this classical topic, a detailed insight is proposed, through the analysis of some of the most relevant fields of legal philosophy:
I. Philosophy of criminal law (doctrines of punishment, crime's theory)
II. Theory of values (equality, liberty)
III. Theory of rights (legal rights structure, classification, interpretation and inviolability)
IV. Bioethics and biolaw (meta-ethical assumption, introduction to medical bioethics, relationship between individual dignity and autonomy, conscientious objection)

Introductory part:
- H.L.A. Hart, Il positivismo e la separazione fra diritto e morale, in Il positivismo giuridico contemporaneo. Una antologia, (eds.) A. Schiavello, V. Velluzzi, Giappichelli, Torino, 2005, pp. 48-89;
- G. Pino, Diritto e morale, in Che cosa è il diritto. Ontologie e concezioni del giuridico, (eds.) G. Bongiovanni, G. Pino, C. Roversi, Giappichelli, Torino, 2016, pp. 3-30.
Part I:
- L. Ferrajoli, Diritto penale minimo e Quando proibire?, both in Id., Il paradigma garantista. Filosofia e critica del diritto penale, 2a ed., Editoriale scientifica, Napoli, 2016, respectively: parte prima, cap. III, pp. 26-60; parte seconda, cap. II, pp. 91-108.
Part II:
- L. Ferrajoli, L’eguaglianza e i suoi nemici, in Teoria e pratica dell’eguaglianza. Prospettive di analisi critica, (ed.) F. Mastromartino, L’Asino d’oro Edizioni, Roma, 2018, pp. 197-223.
Part III:
- G. Pino, Il costituzionalismo dei diritti. Struttura e limiti del costituzionalismo contemporaneo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017, capp. III (La grammatica dei diritti) e V (Limitabilità e inviolabilità dei diritti fondamentali), rispettivamente: pp. 77-105; pp. 141-163.
Part IV:
- U. Scarpelli, Bioetica: prospettive e principi fondamentali, in Id., Bioetica laica, Baldini e Castoldi, Milano, 1998, pp. 37-48;
- P. Borsellino, Bioetica tra “morali” e diritto, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2018, cap. 1 (La bioetica. Problemi, sviluppi, prospettive), without § 9, pp. 21-57;
- L. Ferrajoli, Dignità e libertà, in Dignità e autonomia tra bioetica e mercato, (eds.) F. Mastromartino, G. Pino, in “Rivista di filosofia del diritto”, 1, 2019, pp. 23-32;
- One paper to choose between: F. Poggi, Dignità e autonomia: disaccordi semantici e conflitti di valore in Dignità e autonomia tra bioetica e mercato, (ed.) F. Mastromartino, G. Pino, in “Rivista di filosofia del diritto”, 1, 2019, pp. 33-50; M. Sandel, Quello che i soldi non possono comprare. I limiti morali del mercato, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2012, Introduzione (Mercati e morale) and cap. 3 (Come i mercati allontanano la morale), respectively pp. 11-22 and pp. 95-130; F. Mastromartino, Esiste un diritto generale all’obiezione di coscienza?, in “Diritto e questioni pubbliche”, 1, 2018, pp. 159-181.

The course program will focus on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality between men" and Adam Smith, "Theory of moral sentiments".

By reading and commenting on the texts, the following points will be examined:

1: The method of the two authors
2: The role of self-love and interest on the one hand, piety or sympathy on the other.
3: The role of the desire for esteem
4: The relationship between feelings, customs and institutions, and virtues.

a] Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discorso sulla disuguaglianza, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
b] Adam Smith, Teoria dei sentimenti morali, Milano, BUR (Parti I-VI).

c] t least one text to be chosen from among the following:

– Tom Campbell, Adam Smith’s Science of Morals, London, Allen&Unwin.
– Ryan Patrick Hanley, Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
– Victor Goldschmidt, Anthropologie et politique: les principes du système de Rousseau, Paris, Vrin.
– Mario Reale, Le Ragioni della Politica J.-J. Rousseau dal «Discorso sull’inuguaglianza» al «Contratto», Roma, Edizioni dell’Ateneo.
– Francesco Toto, L’origine e la storia. Il ‘Discorso sull’ineguaglianza’ di Rousseau, Pisa, ETS
– Adelino Zanini, Adam Smith. Morale, jurisprudence, economia poltica, Macerata, Liberilibri.

Narrative spaces: Travel

(a) a text group, by choice, among:
Goffredo Parise, Lontano, Milano, Adelphi, 2009 + Id., Guerre politiche, Milano, Adelphi, 2007 + Id., L’eleganza è frigida, Milano, Adelphi, 2008 or Giorgio Manganelli, Esperimento con l’India, Milano, Adelphi, 1992 + Id., La favola pitagorica, Milano, Adelphi, 2005 + Id., L’isola pianeta, Milano, Adelphi, 2006 or Gianni Celati, Narratori delle pianure, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2003 + Id., Verso la foce, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2002 + Id., Avventure in Africa, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2008

b) a critical text about the choosen author:
Goffredo Parise, edited by Marco Belpoliti and Andrea Cortellessa («Roga» 36), Milano, Marcos y Marcos, 2016 or Graziella Pulce, Giorgio Manganelli. Figure e sistema, Firenze, LeMonnier, 2004 or Gianni Celati, edited by Marco Belpoliti and Marco Sironi («Riga» 28), Milano, Marcos y Marcos, 2008

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

d) to give a context in 20th and 21st century italian literary history:
Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, quarto volume: Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2012

Filmografia: Gianni Celati, Strada Provinciale delle Anime (1991); Id., Case sparse. Visioni di case che crollano (2003: included in Id., Cinema all’aperto, Roma, Fandango, 2011); Id., Passar la vita a Diol Kadd (Milano, Feltrinelli, 2011)

The workshop will focus on different themes, including: music as a semiotic system; the comparison between linguistic understanding and musical understanding; the relationship between music and emotions; the articulation of voice, song and word; declinations of the relationship between music and language limits.

- G. Agamben, Vocazione e voce, in Id., La potenza del pensiero. Saggi e conferenze, Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2005, pp. 78-91
- G. Agamben, La musica suprema. Musica e politica, in Id., Che cos’è la filosofia?, Quodlibet, Macerata 2016, pp. 135-146.
- L. Berio, Scritti sulla musica, Einaudi, Torino 2013.
- C. Dahlhaus, Musica come testo, in Id., In altri termini. Saggi sulla musica, Ricordi, Milano 2009, pp. 219-241.
- U. Eco, La struttura assente, Bompiani, Milano 2002.
- U. Eco, Trattato di semiotica generale, Bompiani, Milano 2016.
- U. Eco, L. Berio, Eco in ascolto, in L. Berio, Interviste e colloqui, Einaudi, Torino 2017, pp. 171-182.
- V. Jankélévitch, La musica e l’ineffabile, Bompiani, Milano 2001.
- P. Kivy, Filosofia della musica. Un’introduzione, Einaudi, Torino 2007.
- S. K. Langer, Filosofia in una nuova chiave, Armando, Roma 1972.
- C. Lévi-Strauss, Il crudo e il cotto, il Saggiatore, Milano 2008.
- S. Oliva, La chiave musicale di Wittgenstein. Tautologia, gesto, atmosfera, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2016.
- L. Wittgenstein, Libro blu e libro marrone, Einaudi, Torino 2000.

The reading laboratory will deepen some selected parts of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of the Spirit (1827-1828) related to the concepts of feeling, sleep, dream, mental illness, genius.

Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of the Spirit: Berlin, Winter Semester 1827-28, Guerini, 2000 (selected parts)