The course asks about the prospects and problems of the project of a 'cognitive neuropsychiatry' or 'clinical cognitive neuroscience'. The first part of the module examines some specific cases of interaction between psychiatry and cognitive science. In the second part, attachment theory, as a psychodynamic tradition with an ethological, cognitive and evolutionary framework, is taken as a framework within which classic psychoanalytic themes such as emotion regulation, defenses, trauma and dissociation are reexamined.

J.Y. Tsou, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2022.
D. Murphy, Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, MIT Press, Cambrige (MA) 2012.

The course will present and discuss basic notions of neuroethics, an interdisciplinary research fields at the interplay between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, the course will focus on the topic of moral cognition, investigating the basis of moral reasoning, motivation, choice, and judgment.

Students will acquire:
- Capacity to read an analyze texts
- Capacity to navigate the contemporary debate on the bases and mechanisms of moral cognition
- Capacity to orally present and defend theses

Written exam - please, consult "Moodle-Annunci" or contact the instructor in case of doubts
FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – A. Lavazza, V. Sironi (eds.), 2022, Neuroetica, Carocci (selected parts);
2 – M. Tomasello (2016) Storia naturale della morale umana, Raffaello Cortina Editore;
3 – Booklet including short excerpts from various texts, including: F. Nietzsche (2017) Genealogia della morale, Adelphi; A. Damasio (1995) L’errore di Cartesio, Adelphi.

Written exam - please, consult "Moodle-Annunci" or contact the instructor in case of doubts
FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – A. Lavazza, V. Sironi (eds.), 2022, Neuroetica, Carocci (whole text);
2 – M. Tomasello (2016) Storia naturale della morale umana, Raffaello Cortina Editore;
3 – Booklet including short excerpts from various texts, including: F. Nietzsche (2017) Genealogia della morale, Adelphi; A. Damasio (1995) L’errore di Cartesio, Adelphi.

The main characters of the Italian political system (1848-1994). The module will deal with the main characters of the Italian political system, from Risorgimento to the crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, throught a long-term reading. The relationship between press and political power will also be analyzed.

P. Carusi, I partiti politici italiani dall'Unità a oggi, Roma, Ed. Studium, 2015
P. Pombeni (a cura di), Storia dei partiti italiani. Dal 1848 a oggi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016
M. Forno, Informazione e potere. Storia del giornalismo italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002

Definition of Communication. In-depth study and research on the psychological processes (cognitive, affective, relational) of communication in all of its modalities: verbal and body (words and sentences, prosody and intonation, gestures, facial expression, gaze, touch, posture, proxemics, music), and technological media. Analysis of sincere and deceptive, cooperative and aggressive communication, and its uses in interpersonal interaction, at work, in education, politics, entertainment.
Emotions: definition, biological and social functions, types, regulation, expression and communication. Basic emotions, image, cognitive, social, moral emotions. Their relationships with interpersonal interaction and relations, on the job, in teaching and learning, politics, art, music, entertainment.

Teaching material for the course “Psychology of Emotions and Multimodal Communication”, 6 Credits
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. Either choice B1 or choice B2

Choice B1.
Poggi I.: Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo, gli altri. Milano, Mondadori 2022.


Choice B2.
Poggi I.: Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo, gli altri. Milano, Mondadori 2022:
chapters not to read: 1 – 4, 7-8, 13-14, 23, 38.
Poggi I.: Parlare con gli occhi. Lo sguardo come forma di comunicazione. Carocci, Roma 2023.


For those who take the course “Psychology of Emotions and Multimodal Communication” 12 Credits
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. Poggi I.: Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo, gli altri. Mondadori, Milano 2022.
D. A text or set of text, chosen from the following items:

1. Poggi I.: Parlare con gli occhi. Lo sguardo come forma di comunicazione. Carocci, Roma 2023.
2. Nobile L. e Lombardi Vallauri E. : Onomatopea e fonosimbolismo. Carocci, Roma 2020.
3. Bonini T. e Perrotta M.: Che cos’è un podcast. Carocci, Roma 2023.
4. Castelfranchi C.: Che figura. Emozioni e immagine sociale. Il Mulino, Bologna 2005.
5. Nussbaum, M.: L’intelligenza delle emozioni. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
6. Matarazzo O. e Zammuner V. (a cura di): La regolazione delle emozioni. Il Mulino, Bologna 2012.
7. Ledoux J.: Il cervello emotivo. Baldini e Castoldi, Milano 2005.
8. Damasio A.R.: Emozione e coscienza. Adelphi, Milano 2010.
9. Miceli M. e Castelfranchi C.: Expectancy and Emotion. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013.
10. D’Amico A.: Intelligenza emotiva e metaemotiva. Il Mulino, Bologna. 2018.
11. Palvarini P.: Le emozioni che rendono forti. Il lavoro con le emozioni in psicoterapia. Alpes Italia.
12. Bazzanella C.: Linguistica cognitiva. Un’introduzione. Laterza, Bari 2014.
13. Levorato M.C.: Le emozioni della lettura. Mulino, Bologna, 1999.
14. Gallese V. e Guerra M.: Lo schermo empatico. Cinema e neuroscienze. Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2015.
15. Boulez P., Changeux J.P. e Manoury P.: I neuroni magici. Musica e cervello. Carocci, Roma 2016.
16. Mado Proverbio A.: Neuroscienze cognitive della musica. Il cervello musicale tra arte e scienza. Bologna, Zanichelli 2019
17. Caruana F. e Viola M.: Come funzionano le emozioni. Bologna, Il Mulino.
18. Cavalieri R. e Chiricò D.: Parlare, segnare. Introduzione alla fisiologia e alla patologia delle lingue verbali e dei segni. Bologna, Il Mulino.
19. Benedetti F.: L’effetto placebo. Breve viaggio tra mente e corpo. Roma, Carocci 2018.
20. Viale R.: Oltre il nudge. Libertà di scelta, felicità e comportamento. Bologna, Il Mulino.
21. Mortara Garavelli B. Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche. Bari, Laterza.
22. Bambini V. Il cervello pragmatico. Roma, Carocci.
23. Nobile L. e Lombardi Vallauri E.: Onomatopea e fonosimbolismo. Roma, Carocci.
24. Ferrari M e Paladino P.: L'apprendimento della lingua straniera. Roma, Carocci.

25. The following pair of books:
Arielli E. e Bottazzini P.: Idee virali. Perché i pensieri si diffondono. Bologna, Il Mulino.
+
Riva G.: I social network. Bologna, Il Mulino

26. The following pair of books:
Cavazza N.: Pettegolezzi e reputazione. Bologna, Il Mulino.
+
Riva G.: Fake news: vivere e sopravvivere in un mondo post-verità. Bologna, Il Mulino

27. 4 papers on emotions to download from
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isabella_Poggi

28. 4 papers on multimodal communication to download from the following link
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isabella_Poggi


Teaching material for those who have to give the following exam: “Psychology of Emotions”, 6 Credits
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. Roma, Armando 2008.
C. One text or a set of texts, chosen among the following 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. Levorato M.C.: Le emozioni della lettura. Mulino, Bologna, 1999.
10. Gallese V. e Guerra M.: Lo schermo empatico. Cinema e neuroscienze. Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2015.
11. Boulez P., Changeux J.P. e Manoury P.: I neuroni magici. Musica e cervello. Carocci, Roma 2016.
12. Mado Proverbio A.: Neuroscienze cognitive della musica. Il cervello musicale tra arte e scienza. Bologna, Zanichelli 2019

13. 4 papers on emotions, to be downloaded from the following link:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isabella_Poggi


Teaching material for those who have to give the following exam: “Psychology of Multimodal Communication”, 6 Credits
The items to be studied for the oral exam are the following:


A. Poggi I.: Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo, gli altri. Milano, Mondadori 2022.
B. One text or set of texts, chosen within the following items:

1. Poggi I.: Parlare con gli occhi. Lo sguardo come forma di comunicazione. Carocci, Roma 2023.
2. Nobile L. e Lombardi Vallauri E. : Onomatopea e fonosimbolismo. Carocci, Roma 2020.
3. Bonini T. e Perrotta M.: Che cos’è un podcast. Carocci, Roma 2023.
4. Bazzanella C.: Linguistica cognitiva. Un’introduzione. Laterza, Bari 2014.
5. Gallese V. e Guerra M.: Lo schermo empatico. Cinema e neuroscienze. Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2015.
6. Boulez P., Changeux J.P. e Manoury P.: I neuroni magici. Musica e cervello. Carocci, Roma 2016.
7. Cavalieri R. e Chiricò D.: Parlare, segnare. Introduzione alla fisiologia e alla patologia delle lingue verbali e dei segni. Bologna, Il Mulino.
8. Benedetti F.: L’effetto placebo. Breve viaggio tra mente e corpo. Roma, Carocci 2018.
9. Viale R.: Oltre il nudge. Libertà di scelta, felicità e comportamento.
10. Bologna, Il Mulino. Mortara Garavelli B. Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche. Bari, Laterza.
11. Bambini V. Il cervello pragmatico. Roma, Carocci.
12. Ferrari M. e Paladino P.: L'apprendimento della lingua straniera. Roma, Carocci.

13. The following pair of 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

14. The following pair of 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

15. 4 articles on multimodal communication among the following, to be downloaded here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isabella_Poggi

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.

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.(2019) La società automatica, Mimesis, Milano.
Lovink G. (2022) Stuck on the platform: Reclaiming the internet, VAliz, London.

Nel corso di Epistemologia e Comunicazione saranno presentati alcuni strumenti teorici dell’epistemologia classica, quali la logica formale e le fallacie logiche, e dell’epistemologia sociale, quali le nozioni di vigilanza epistemica e ingiustizia epistemica. Saranno quindi discussi alcuni aspetti dell’organizzazione sociale della scienza e della sua comunicazione, quali le norme sociali che la regolano e la revisione tra pari. L’ultima parte del corso, di carattere seminariale, sarà dedicata alla lettura e commento di articoli su un tema di cogente attualità relativo all’epistemologia del digitale: lo statuto epistemologico delle immagini manipolate o generate tramite tecnologie di deepfake, e le sfide etiche che esse pongono.

Core textbook:
1. Boem, F. (2021). Forme dell'argomentare e del ragionare. Le Monnier Università.

Two between:
1. Massimiano Bucchi (2002). Scienza e società: introduzione alla sociologia della scienza. Il Mulino.
2. Marco Fasoli (2019), Il benessere digitale. Il Mulino.
3. Fabio Paglieri (2020), La disinformazione felice: cosa ci insegnano le bufale. Il Mulino.
4. Emiliano Loria, Cristina Meini, Stefano Iacone (2023), Cuori complottisti. Rosenberg & Sellier.
5. Papers provided by the teacher during claasses (3 papers = 1 book).

The course aims to explore the history and present of journalistic photography, its role as a 'window on the world' in modern visual culture and in the formation of what can be considered a 'global consciousness'.

The work of the main personalities who have marked the history of photojournalism will be retraced, as well as the relationship between myth and reality of the profession, between the aspiration to objectivity and the compromises of the editorial chain, between denunciation and censorship, from its origins to the present day. From the golden age of magazines to war photography. The current crisis of the profession. The new challenges of information through images to the aestheticisation and decontextualisation of journalistic photography in the digital age.

Elements of knowledge will be provided on the themes of digital manipulation, debunking of 'hoaxes' in the age of fakenews, political storytelling and post-truth, with an emphasis on the ethics of photography, the main codes of ethics, the legal rules for the use of images and copyright.

The workshop will make students measure themselves directly with the analysis of the snapshots of the major photoreporters and the most significant magazines, enabling them to read them also in relation to the era, the economy, the publishing market, figurative art and the history of the mentality of the societies in which they were taken, so as to contribute to consolidating their overall knowledge of the modern and contemporary age.

Dondero, Mario with Giordana, Emanuele. Lo scatto umano. Viaggio nel fotogiornalismo da Budapest a New York. Bari: Laterza, 2017

Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2004

Pastoureau, Michel. Dizionario dei colori del nostro tempo. Milan: Ponte alle Grazie, 2018 (it may be replaced by pdf of lectures)

Fadigati, Neri. Il mestiere di vedere. Introduction to photojournalism. Pisa University Press, 2019

Lucas, Uliano and Agliani, Tatiana. La realtà e lo sguardo. Storia del fotogiornalismo in Italia. Turin: Einaudi, 2016

Capa, Robert. Slightly Out of Focus. New York: Modern Library, 2001

Morris, John G. Get the Picture. A personal History of Photojournalism, University of Chicago Press, 2002

Pdf (or notes) of classroom lectures

Structure and functions of the nervous system - Methods of investigation;
Neural correlates of emotional, cognitive and social processes: Objects and faces recognition, Memory and learning, Emotions, Cognitive control, Action - Mirror neurons, Empathy, Social cognition - Theory of Mind; Design and construction of an experimental task, electroencephalographic data (EEG) recording and analysis, exercises and discussion of scientific projects and papers.

Gazzaniga, Ivry & Mangun (2015). Neuroscienze Cognitive. Zanichelli (Capp. 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13);
Scientific papers

Travelling, seeing, Manganelli

Travelling, seeing, Manganelli
a) Giorgio Manganelli, Esperimento con l’India, Milano, Adelphi, 1992 + Id., La favola pitagorica,
Milano, Adelphi, 2005 + Id., L’isola pianeta, Milano, Adelphi, 2006 + Viaggio in Africa, Adelphi
2018
b) Giorgio Manganelli, La morte come luce. Scritti sulle arti, Adelphi 2023
c) Lietta Manganelli, Giorgio Manganelli. Aspettando che l’inferno cominci a funzionare, La nave di Teseo 2022
d) Andrea Cortellessa, Il libro è altrove. Ventisei piccole monografie su Giorgio Manganelli, Luca Sossella 2020 and/or Andrea Cortellessa, Filologia fantastica. Ipotizzare, Manganelli, Argolibri 2022
e) 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

Epidemiology of Beliefs: How Ideas Spread
Emotions and transmissions of ideas
Memetics
Cultural evolution
Psychology of fake news
Consiracy beliefs and their cognitive foundations
Rhetoric: from Aristotle to modern theories
Persuasion and storytelling
Cognitive foundations of storytelling
Case studies: scientific communication, marketing, advertising, political communication.

Programma da 6 cfu: 2 libri

Libro obbligatorio:
- Piazza F. (2004) Linguaggio, persuasione e verità. La retorica del Novecento, Carocci, Roma.

1 libro a scelta tra:
- Arielli E., Bottazzini P. (2018) Idee virali. Perché i pensieri si diffondono. Il Mulino, Bologna.
- Brotherton R. (2015) Menti sospettose. Perché siamo tutti complottisti. Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.
- Gottschall J. (2021) Il lato oscuro delle storie. Come lo storytelling cementa le società e talvolta le distrugge. Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.

The course will develop in two parts. In the first the main characteristics of different types of academic texts will be examined and the main scientific writing techniques will be discussed. In the second part, we will proceed in a laboratory manner to the construction of a scientific essay that has a clear and effective structure and argumentation. Its practical rules (syntax, punctuation, style) will also be discussed. At the end of the course, the students will be able to design and write a scientific essay structured according to the rules shared by the scientific community.

M. SANTAMBROGIO, Manuale di scrittura (non creativa), Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008.
A. IACONA, L’argomentazione, Einaudi, Torino 2005.

Further materials will be provided in class.

The origins of Artificial intelligence and its open ethics and politics questions

The course is dedicated to the birth of Artificial intelligence which happened more or less together witht the birth of the first electronic computers. The term was invented in 1956, but the discussion around the possibilities and consequences of what was called mechanical or machine intelligence started during the early Fifties and even earlier.
The Famous Turing Test created a huge interest since it was invented and proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing. Many years and many different methods were considered since AI origins, now many perspectives and technologies changed since then, in order to solve problems that required intelligence and problem solving capabilities to be solved.
At present there are many soft bots, many robot and many artificial devices that with the help of algorithms seem to espress intelligence and oblige us to change the concept of intelligence itself, both if applied to humans or to machines.
the most interesting phenomenon is the tendence to attribute to machine intelligent capabilities, mainly when we don't know precisely how the machine works.
This social dimention in attributing intelligence to machines was underlined by Turing too at the very beginning of machine intelligence reflection.
However this characteristic risks to produce unintendend and undesired consequences for human beings. we know that not many ara capable of understanding how to program a deep learning algorithm, and that more and more even programmers ignore how the machine produced the output results, because the layers of calculations are too difficult to follow in details also by those who programmed them. We know that only a small group of programmers and experts know the details. they tend to be trained by the same universities and to be hired by the same few multinational companies.
the technics that are more successful in AI are the machine learning programs, that build theri previsions on the manipulation of past series of data. Between the machine learning solutions the most relevant at present are the deep learning techniques. Deep learning solutions are based on multilevel layers of learning networks, in which the nobody knows what is happening inside the hidden layers. the programmers don't know precisely the reasons behind the output of the neural network to a specific problem. In some context particularly sensitive such as predictive policing, face recognition, image recognition, clusterization, risk assessment in recidivism, personnel selection, insurance premiums, welfare services ect. it is difficult to make previsions, because the structural incertitude of the future events. In these situations the strength of rhetoric about the trustworthy of algorithmic devices risk to create self-fulfilling expectations that transform the world according to previsions that are not right or wrong. the future in created by anticipating it.
The introduction of generative AI creates additional problems in terms of the controllability of the veracity of the responses obtained from the various CHATGPT and other similar intelligent chats. The risk is to have a proliferation of content without control that could make it impossible to use textuality to validate knowledge and transmit it. We are facing a momentous change that requires extreme attention to the protection of the rules of peaceful coexistence based on justice, fairness and freedom that we have shared in the countries of advanced democracies.
This framework shows that there are political and social problems that need solutions when we introduce a new AI tool. Innovation is not enough we need to build tools that are fair and useful to promote the development and wellbeing of all humans and not only of a small minority.
the course proposes some methods and histories to understand the political and social dimensions of the technological choices around us, with special regard to AI.

Mitchell M. (2019) Artificial Intelligence, Pelican Press, London.
Copeland J. (2004) The essential turing, Clarendon Press, London (a selection of pages)
Natale S. Deceitful media, Oxford university Press, Oxford.

NTRODUCTION TO SOCIO-CULTURAL RESEARCH
THE QUALITATIVE DOMAIN
QUALITATIVE DETECTION TECHNIQUES
THE QUANTITATIVE DOMAIN
QUANTITATIVE DETECTION TECHNIQUES
THE STAGES OF RESEARCH
RESEARCH AND THE MASS MEDIA
THE ROLE OF SURVEYS
DEMOSCOPIC RESEARCH
MARKETING SURVEYS

R. Baldassari, Giornalismo, informazione e comunicazione, Marsilio

R.Baldassari, “STRATEGIE DELLE RICERCHE DI OPINIONE E DI MERCATO”

S. Versace, Fratelli. Una famiglia italiana, Rizzoli

This course aims at giving the students the basic concepts of applied ethics and the relation between ethics and communication (with a specific interest in film communication).

The goal of the course is that the students understand these fundamental issues of moral philosophy. At the end of the course, the students will be able to understand the essential features of these discussions.

1. M. De Caro, M.F. Magni, M.S. Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica (capp. 11-18)
2. M. De Caro, E. Terrone, I valori al cinema, Mondadori
3. Article: https://download.kataweb.it/mediaweb/pdf/espresso/scienze/1990_259_1.pdf
4. Article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-0, 9-00345-y

The students who will attend the course and participate in the pre-exam will have to study a reduced (and slightly different) program

For the students of the Minor Course in "Intelligenza Artificiale: nuove tecnologie, etica e competenze giuridiche" the program is the following:
1. M. De Caro, M.F. Magni, M.S. Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica (chs. 11, 12, 13, 15, 16)
2. Article: https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/searle_1980_menti_cervelli_e_programmi.pdf
3. Article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-019-00345-y

This course introduces the understanding of the neurocognitive correlates of communicative and linguistic competence. After defining the concept of competence, the characteristics of communicative competence and the structural and cognitive features of human language will be explored highlighting the interactions between different cognitive (e.g., memory, attention, executive functions) and perceptual (e.g., visual or auditory perception) systems and language. The most recent cognitive models of language production and comprehension will also be described using results from studies based on observations of patients with language disorders and healthy subjects using neuroimaging techniques.

Students will receive the slides describing the contents of this class. They will need to study the following two books:
Marini, A. (2008). Manuale di Neurolinguistica. Carocci
Marini, A. (2021). Che cos’è la Psicolinguistica. Carocci

The course will focus in the Mediterranean space between the 19th and 20th centuries.

F. Benigno, entry "Il Mediterraneo", in Enciclopedia Treccani, Il XXI secolo, 2009 (available at the following link: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/il-mediterraneo_%28XXI-Secolo%29/)

D. Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, Oxford UP, 2013 (part five only)

D. Casanova, F. Canale Cama e R. M. Delli Quadri, Storia del Mediterraneo moderno e contemporaneo, Guida Editore, 2017 (only chapters from VI to XI, pp. 185-449)

E. Ivetic, Il Mediterraneo e l’Italia. Dal mare nostrum alla centralità comprimaria, Rubbettino, 2022

Over the past few years, philosophy of science has become increasingly "local," shifting its focus from the general characteristics of scientific practice to the theories, methods and problems of scientific disciplines. The philosophies of psychology, neuroscience and cognitive science arise from this greater delimitation.
The mind that psychologists and neuroscientists are concerned with today is the child of the cognitivist revolution and is therefore defined as a set of information-processing processes carried out in the brains of complex organisms. What makes the cognitivist investigation of the mind peculiar is its being suspended between two worlds: on the one hand, the ordinary image of ourselves as persons, that is, as subjects of conscious experiences, intentional states and deliberate action; on the other hand, the subpersonal sphere of brain events, the subject of neuroscience. This course aims to introduce the reader to the cognitivist study of the mind, but always against the background of the philosophical effort to shed light on the relationships that link these different ways in which we describe ourselves.

A. Kind, Philosophy of Mind: The Basics. Routledge, London 2020.
W. Bechtel and Linus Ta-Lun Huang, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2022.

Institutional part on the general history of behavioral sciences, and neuroscience:
I) History of science and history of psychology 1. Why study the history of the sciences of the mind 2. Historiography of science: continuism and scientific revolutions 3. Normal science and paradigms 4. Historiography of psychology and neuroscience
II) Prehistory of the Behavioral Sciences: 1. Mind and behavior in ancient philosophy; 2. Early scientific conceptions of behavior from the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution 3. From Descartes to the "idéologues" 9. Theories of mind and behavior in empiricism; 4. The advent of the biological perspective of theories of behavior: evolutionism.
III) The birth of experimental psychology: from Helmholtz to Wundt 1. The birth of experimental psychology 2. Helmholtz: specific nervous energy and unconscious inference 3. The phenomenological innatism of Ewald Hering 4. Wilhelm Wundt and physiological psychology 5. Titchener and North American structuralism
IV) American functionalism, between evolutionism and pragmatism
V) Psychodynamic perspective and psychoanalysis 1. Introduction 2. From organicistic to psychodynamic conception of mental illness 3. Janet's theory 4. Psychoanalysis from Freud to the 1950s 5. Jung's theory 6. Adler's theory 7. Psychoanalysis themes of the second twentieth century and new themes 8. Phenomenological psychiatry 9. Theories of personality 10. Integrated models between health and pathology of the mind
VI) The behaviorist perspective I. Introduction 2. American psychology at the beginning of the century: structuralism and functionalism 3. Behaviorism from Watson to the 50s 4. Skinner and the behaviorist utopia 5. Operationism in psychology 6. Personality, psychopathology and social learning in the behaviorist perspective
VII) The cognitive perspective 1. Introduction 2. The study of cognitive processes: from the Würzburg school to Bartlett 3. The theories of intelligence 4. Theories of psychic development 5. Piaget's theory 6. Probabilistic and ecological theories of mental processes 7. Cognitivism 8. Cognitive science
VIII) The biological and neuroscientific perspective 1. Introduction 2. Animal and comparative psychology. Ethology 3. Research on brain functions at the beginning of the twentieth century 4. Bechterev's reflexology 5. Pavlov's theory of higher nervous activity 6. Holistic theories of the functioning of the mind and brain in the early twentieth century 7. The neuroconnectionism of Hebb 8. Research on brain function and behavior: 1950-70 9. The theory of brain functional systems of Lurija 10. Cognitive, affective and social neuroscience.
IX) The contemporary debate 1. Crisis of theories or crisis of psychology 2. Empirical verification in psychology 3. Psychology of common sense and alternative psychology 4. The primacy of neuroscience 5. The discomfort of psychotherapy 6. Psychology and contemporary society.

Monographic Part
The monographic part of the program this year aims to critically illustrate the history of the contribution of behavioral sciences and neuroscience to the understanding of pathological addictions

Mecacci L. (2019). Storia della psicologia dal Novecento a oggi. Roma- Bari: Laterza (capitoli: 4; 5; 7; 8).
Stefano Canali, Cosa sono le dipendenze, Carocci, in corso di stampa

for the monographic part:
teacher's handouts

This is a seminar-experiential coruse involving the direct and active participation of students (i.e., participatory learning/learning by doing). Specifically, the main psychoanalytic theories (i.e. Freudian, object relations, contemporary psychoanalysis) will be explored within the course, describing their historical evolution. A path describing how the conception of the mind has changed over the years in psychoanalysis will be traced: from a unipersonal/intrapsychic view within a positivistic paradigm, to the current intersubjective perspective in which the mind arise as a construction from social interactions.
Chapters from the reference textbook will be read and critically commented together in class, highlighting points of convergence and divergence between the different theoretical perspectives presented. Moreover, they will be enriched with clinical exemplifications brought by the professor, along with further theoretical insights. Different ways in which mental suffering, psychopathology and therapeutic treatment could be declined will also be explored.
Italian and foreign guests will be invited to enrich the theoretical-clinical reflection. This year will feature Dr. Vineet Gairola (India), who will address the topic of truth in psychoanalysis, describing its role for psychic structuring in Wilfred Bion’s thinkinig.

Articles provided during classes.

The course discusses the problems that motivated Judgment Aggregation Theory, and how the latter reacts to such problems. In particular, we will discuss the problems connected to the majority rule, the formal intepretation of the aggregation from individual to collective opinions envisaged by Judgment Aggregation Theory, and a list of conditions that are traditionally deemed desirable for aggregation rules. We will then explore the impossibility results showing that, at given conditions, an aggregation rule satisfying some given bundles of desirable conditions cannot but collapse on dictatorship or oligarchies. We will then explore the attempts at circumventing the collapse implied by the impossibility results by a convenient redesign of the desirable conditions. The course is taught in English.

Grossi D. e Pigozzi G., Judgment Aggregation: a Primer, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, Kentfield, CA, 2013.

Selected bibliography agreed with the teacher
Relativamente all'Agenda 2030, si consiglia di prendere visione di:

Introduzione: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geG9qxXTvmE&list=PLc_XFSGMW0SIhCmt_BsOcCJ_izzb5FpOs&index=1&ab_channel=Universit%C3%A0degliStudiRomaTre

The lab aims to deliver students solid theoretical foundations of AI and a well-established ability to interact with Large Language Models through the best prompt engineering techniques.
The lab consists of a more theoretical first phase where we will cover the basics of AI and understand how a neural network works. We will also see the ethical issues related to these models, such as the creation of biased models, the data protection problem and the explainability problem, i.e., The ability to understand why a result was provided.
Second, once this knowledge is acquired, we will pay attention to how LLMs work. We will see the architecture of these models and we will move on to study and rehearse together the most current prompt engineering techniques and different possible methods to relate to these models and get the best answers.
No prior knowledge of code is necessary.

Resources provided by the professor during the course

1. General neuroscience principles for understanding self-control and emotions.
- Brain and mind. Between biological evolution, heredity, environment and experience
- The maturation of brain circuits of emotion and voluntary control of behavior
- Attention, working memory, self-control
Exercises:
- How do you feel? Description of affective states and emotional literacy
- The experience of (dis)control of the mind

2. We become what we repeatedly do: the plasticity of the brain and behavior
- How the neuron and neurotransmission work
- Neuroplasticity and learning
- The different types of associative learning
- Construction and fixation of habits and automatisms
Exercises:
- Exploring memory
- Training attention with breathing

3. What is an emotion?
- Emotions as adaptive programs/ Emotions as constructs
- The main theories of emotion
- Human history and the evolutionary mismatch of emotional programs
Exercises:
- Basic meditation
- Remembered wellness and reactivated wellness

4. The regulation of emotions
- Introdutciont to the psychobiology of emotions
- Emotions and language, Recognizing and naming an emotion as implicit emotional regulation
- The different possible strategies of emotional regulation, adaptive/ dysfunctional
- Learning and modification of emotional response styles
Exercises:
- Naming emotions (Strengthening emotional vocabulary)
- Introduction to body scan
- STOP technique - Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed

5. Emotions and stress
- Brief history of the concept of stress, from pathophysiology, to the cognitive dimension of emotions
- The mechanisms of stress
- The impact of chronic stress on the brain and cognitive and executive functions
Exercises:
- Measuring perceived stress
- Relaxation training
- Gratitude journal


6. Cognitive training and contemplative practices. Mindfulness-based practices: scientific evidence and general introduction
- What is Mindfulness
- Risks and consequences of chronic distraction and mind wandering
- Mind wandering and negative mood
- Mindfulness and emotion regulation
- Mindfulness and neuroplasticity
Exercises:
- Basic Mindfulness Meditation
- Meditation in motion


7. Voluntary control of behavior: how it works, how it discharges, how it is enhanced
- The neural basis of self-control
- Attention and self-control
- Self-control and ego depletion (Ego depletion)
Exercises:
- Self-affirmation;
- Implementation of intentions


8. Voluntary control of behavior: how to enhance it
- Self-control can be trained and enhanced
- Physical exercise as a form of training self-control
- Ego depletion, Mindfulness and other exercises to train the "muscle" of self-control
Exercises:
- Basic Mindfulness Meditation
- Mindfulness meditation on emotions

9. Prosocial behaviors, cognitive empathy
- Prosocial behaviors, executive functions and self-control
- Prosocial behaviors, health and psychological well-being
- What is empathy 1: Cognitive empathy and brain correlates
Exercises:
- The Reflective Listening Technique;
- Cultivating loving kindness


10. Prosocial behaviors, affective empathy and compassion
- What is affective empathy and its brain correlates
- Empathy as an embodied simulation of others' emotions
- Neuroplasticity and the prosocial brain
Exercises:
- Compassion meditation
- Feeling connected

Stefano Canali, Regolare le emozioni. Teorie e metodi per lo sviluppo e il potenziamento dell’autocontrollo. Carocci, Roma, 2021

During the course the criteria for defining psychopathology according to the diagnostic categories of the DSM-5 will be introduced and, at the same time, importance will be given to the complexity of the patient, framing the topic mainly from a psychodynamic point of view. In addition, other psychotherapeutic approaches will also be introduced (e.g. cognitive-behavioral) and the main transdiagnostic factors of risk, maintenance and protection of the disorder will be highlighted.
The various figures who work in the field of mental health (eg, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist), the main psychodiagnostic tools and research methods in clinical psychology will be described.
During the course, particular attention will be given to the discussion of clinical cases and scientific papers in the field of clinical psychology and neuroscience.
The course aims to acquire knowledge of the main psychodiagnostic categories by keeping the attention on the patient's subjectivity and developing a critical thinking that allows the student to apply the knowledge learned to her/his fields of interest.

Gabbard, G. O. (2014). Psychodynamic psychiatry in clinical practice. American Psychiatric Pub.

The course consists of a series of meetings dedicated to issues and authors arising from the constellation of feminisms.
It includes lectures, workshop activities and writing sessions (individual and collective).

*An introductory text to be choosen between
- F. Castelli, R. Carocci, Femminismi. Idee, movimenti, conflitti, Novadelphi, 2021
- A. Curcio (a cura di), Introduzione ai Femminismi. Genere, razza, classe, riproduzione: dal marxismo al queer, DeriveApprodi 2021

* The handouts and bibliography related to the author/lecture chosen for the focus


(A detailed bibliography for the workshop meetings will be shared in January)

The seminar addresses issues related to the territory and the city. The story of cardinal concepts such as cities, communities, habitats, nature, territory, landscapes, and projects will be presented, discussed and updated, from different perspectives: philosophy, art, political theory, sociology, history, geography, architecture, law, economics, political ecology, communication.

A selection of readings will be suggested.

The course aims to examine the history and present of news journalism today, its role in shaping public opinion, against the backdrop of a publishing market in crisis, more exposed to the pressures of audience and journalistic storytelling, in the name of infotainment.

Stories of enquiries and reporters in Italy and abroad will be retraced, exploring the role of the investigative journalist today between limits, threats and new opportunities; the selection of sources; interlocutors and research tools on the ground and online, Italian and EU databases, rights of access to institutional data (Foia and similar).

We will discuss resources from datajournalism, social media, and the implications of artificial intelligence on content production and consumption, between the digital revolution and the crisis of journalism.

A focus will be devoted to the anomalous space reserved for news in Italian news, the function of these editorial choices, between audience and censorship, and the comparison with the choices and consumption of information in other advanced democracies. We will also analyse investigative journalism and big news in the perspective of our republican history: from the role of the mafias to the strategy of tension and the 'Italian mysteries', with the emphasis on memory between newsroom and civil conscience.

Elements will be provided on the communication of public institutions, major private companies and advertisers, the role of press offices, corporate communication and crisis management, up to indirect lobbying.

The interaction of news with religious denominations (from Vatican information to relations with the Jewish community, Islamic associations and other cults) will be examined, as well as the issue of secularism.
The evolution of the right to report news will be retraced: Italian deontological documents (minors, hate speech, migration, feminicides, gender equality) and EU regulations, protection of sources and whistleblowing, privacy and information rights, publication of wiretaps and press offences, threats to reporters, as well as some of the tools for verifying and debunking news, to test conspiracy and disinformation online.

The workshop will have the students directly measure themselves with reconstruction of case studies and with the writing of texts intended for the various media: from the big news to the evolution of breaking news (environmental emergencies, health, terrorism, climate change), up to current affairs pages (mafias, crime, white and constructive journalism, judicial, gossip, sport), examining styles, languages and stereotypes.

1. TOOLS FOR THE REPORTER

Randall, David, The Universal Journalist. London: Plutopress 2000

2. CRIME NEWS / IN THIS SECTION A VOLUME TO BE CHOSEN FROM:
(edited by Davide Bagnoli), La cronaca nera in Italia. Il perché della sua spettacolarizzazione, Temperino Rosso-Edizioni Fortini, Brescia 2016

Francesca Rizzuto, La società dell'orrore. Terrorism and communication in the age of emotional journalism, Pisa University Press 2018 (also available in e-book, e.g. in the Libraries of Rome network https://www.bibliotechediroma.it/opac/resource/la-societa-dellorrore-terrorismo-e-comunicazione-nellera-del-giornalismo-emotivo/ML_0000150254086?tabDoc=tabcata )

3. THE ITALIAN EXCEPTION / IN THIS SECTION ONE TO CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING VOLUMES:

Enrico Deaglio, Il raccolto rosso 1982-2010, Il Saggiatore, Milan 2010

Enrico Deaglio, La bomba. 50 anni da piazza Fontana, Feltrinelli 2019

Rita Di Giovacchino, Il libro nero della Prima Repubblica, Fazi editore, Rome 2005

Giovanni Vignali, L'uomo nero e le stragi, Paper First, Rome 2021

Giovanni Fasanella-José Cereghino, Le menti del doppio Stato, Chiarelettere, Rome 2020

Giovanni Tizian, Il silenzio. Italy 1992-2022, Laterza, Bari 2022

4. SOCIAL HISTOTY / IN THIS SECTION ONE TO CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING VOLUMES:
Paul Ginsborg, Italy and its discontents : family, civil society, state, 1980-2001, New York : Palgrave/Macmillan., 2003

Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth , Boston: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series., 2018

Vanni Codeluppi, La vetrinizzazione sociale. Il processo di spettacolarizzazione degli individui e della società, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2007

Byung-Chul Han, The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication today, Cambridge: Polity Press., 2018

Byung-Chul Han, Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022

Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, Stanford University Press, 2015

5. MEDIA /
IN THIS SECTION ONE TO CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING PAPERS OR BOOKS:
Brittany Kaiser, Targeted: The Cambridge Analityca Whistleblower’s Inside Story of how Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and how it Can Happen Again, New York: Harper Collins Publishers., 2019

Christian Salmon, Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind, New York: Verso., 2017

Christian Salmon, La tyrannie des bouffons. Sur le pouvoir grotesque, ed. Les liens que libèrent, Paris 2020

Angelo Agostini, Giornalismi. Media e giornalisti in Italia, Il Mulino, Bologna 2012

Caterina Malavenda, Le regole dei giornalisti, Il Mulino, Bologna 2012

6. IDEAS / IN THIS SECTION ONE OF YOUR CHOICE FROM THE FOLLOWING PAPERS OR VOLUMES:
Lilian Thuram, White Thinking: Behind The Mask of Racial Identity, London: Hero Publishers c/o University of Buckingham., 2021

F. Gatti, Bilal. Il mio viaggio clandestino nel mercato dei nuovi schiavi, Milano, 2007

Luciano Canfora, Fermare l’odio, Laterza, Bari 2019

Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Establishes Knowledge and Why it Matters, Oxford University Press., 2018

Anna Foa, Gli ebrei in Italia. I primi 2000 anni, Laterza, Bari 2022

Samir Kassir, Being Arab, London-New York City: Verso Books., 2006

François Jullien, On the Universal: The Uniform, the Common and Dialogue between Cultures, Polity Publisher, University of Cambridge, 2016

François Jullien, A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking, University of Hawaii, 2004

7. ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM /

Naomi Oreskes-Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt, London: Bloomsbury Press., 2010

8. ETHICAL CHARTERS

Testo Unico dei doveri del giornalista: https://www.odg.it/testo-unico-dei-doveri-del-giornalista/24288

Il Manifesto di Venezia: come raccontare il femminicidio: https://www.sindacatogiornalistiveneto.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MANIFESTO-DI-VENEZIA.pdf


9. METHODS OF READING FACTS
Some novels by Leonardo Sciascia and a short essay by Marc Bloch will be read during the workshop:
Leonardo Sciascia, Opere 1971-1983, Bompiani, Milano 1989 (from this book we will read La scomparsa di Majorana, Il teatro della memoria, I pugnalatori)

Leonardo Sciascia, To Each Its Own, NYRB Classics, 2000

Leonardo Sciascia, The Moro Affair, NYRB Classics, 2004

Leonardo Sciascia, Equal Danger, NYRB Classics,

Leonardo Sciascia, The Day of the Owl, NYRB, 2003

Marc Bloch, Reflections of a Historian on the False News of the War (available on line: https://www.miwsr.com/2013/downloads/2013-051.pdf and among the course materials on Moodle or Teams)

The aim of the course is to provide the knowledge and the skills adequate to analyze, to compare, and to value the different kinds of texts and the diverse levels of messages structured in the pages of the newspapers.
The fil rouge of their 30.000 words printed every day and read by millions of people can be understood only considering a series of constructional facets of the discourse, its inferential valence and conceptual interfaces.
The rhetorical figures, as well as the various kinds of sentences, the lexical configurations and the idiomatic expressions are described in the light of the Critical Discourse Analysis and in that of the Cognitive Linguistics.

Catricalà Linguistica e Giornalismo
Moirand I discorsi giornalistici
Radden G. - Dirven R. Cognitive English Grammar
Catricalà Giornalismo di moda

This is an introductive course to sociolinguistics. The epistemological setting of this branch of knowledge will be discussed, and its basic elements and tools will be introduced. Specific attention will be paid to two major sociolinguistic approaches, i.e. correlational and interactional sociolinguistics.

Berruto, G. – M. Cerruti, (2015), Manuale di sociolinguistica, Torino, UTET

The course will address the role of philosophy in its relationship with art, beginning with the idea of philosophy proposed by Deleuze and Guattari.

G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, Che cos'è la filosofia?, Einaudi, Torino.
D. Angelucci, Là fuori. La filosofia e il reale, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2023.
Un testo a scelta tra:
G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, Kafka. Per una letteratura minore, Quodlibet, Macerata.
G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, Rizoma, in Mille piani. Capitalismo e schizofrenia, Orthotes, Salerno.

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.

1 Book + 2 articles:

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

(articolo 1) Adornetti I., Chiera A., Altavilla D., Deriu V., Marini A., Gobbo M., Valeri G., Magni R., Ferretti F. (2023). Defining the Characteristics of Story Production of Autistic Children: A Multilevel Analysis. «Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders»

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-023-06096-2

(articolo 2) Galbraith, N. (2021). Delusions and Pathologies of Belief: Making Sense of Conspiracy Beliefs via the Psychosis Continuum. In Cardella V., Gangemi A. (a cura di) Psychopathology and Philosophy of Mind: What Mental Disorders Can Tell Us About Our Minds (pp. 117-144). Routledge.




(Libro) 1) Adornetti I. (2018) Patologie del linguaggio e della comunicazione. Carocci, Roma

The most important objective of the course is to describe and to explain that the verbal and iconic strategies of the Adv messages are not a specific use of the common language, but they have to be considered elements of a separate code.
The blends present in the slogans, in the tv commercials, in the jingles, etc. as well as those used in the brands or into the packaging represent a sort of icono-texts, marked by a grammar and a series of unique rules.
The focuses of the courses are four: 1. Texts and hybridisms; 2. Phantawords; 3. Functions and strategies of valorizationa; 4. Naming activity, brands and identities.

Catricalà Pubblicità fa rima con assertività (dispensa)
Catricalà I cataloghi di vendita per corrispodenza, Firenze, Aida.
Catricalà M. One thousand and one ways of reading a brand , Symbolon 4.
Acquaviva P. Il nome , Roma, Carocci.
Baldini. P. Fantaparole.