ID:
500094
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
LOGICA E FILOSOFIA DELLA SCIENZA
Located in:
PAVIA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (26/02/2026 - 12/06/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course will analyze in depth crucial issues to the philosophy of science and technology, encouraging students to conduct research and studies about the different kinds of scientific reasoning, about the cognitive aspects of epistemology and about the relationship between science, technology and values. Furthermore, the course will also specifically deal with recent issues from computational philosophy, stressing the cognitive and epistemological aspects of scientific discovery.
Course Prerequisites
General knowledge about the history of philosophical thought.
Teaching Methods
Lectures and seminars in collaboration with students..
Assessment Methods
Written exam at the end of the course. FINAL WRITTEN EXAM TO BE TAKEN AT HOME
To be submitted by email at least 10 days before the exam session
When writing the three essays, students must refer to the texts indicated in this program, demonstrating their knowledge of the contents, as well as those covered in the seminar. Write three essays (four for non-attending students), each relevant to one of the topics listed in the final program (choose from the four topics listed). Carefully consider the texts referred to and reflect critically on them. Explain your ideas clearly and do not forget to provide reasons to support your various philosophical, cognitive, epistemological, and mathematical assertions. You may also anticipate criticisms of your own arguments and respond to them, or explain opposing views of a problem, indicating why you consider one view better than another (or why you consider some views better than others).
1) The three essays must each be at least 2,500 words and no more than 3,500 words in length. 2) You may refer to notes and books and discuss with other students, but the essays must reflect a “personal” analysis and refer to the texts indicated in this program. 3) Indicate your first and last name, student ID number, and degree program.
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To be submitted by email at least 10 days before the exam session
When writing the three essays, students must refer to the texts indicated in this program, demonstrating their knowledge of the contents, as well as those covered in the seminar. Write three essays (four for non-attending students), each relevant to one of the topics listed in the final program (choose from the four topics listed). Carefully consider the texts referred to and reflect critically on them. Explain your ideas clearly and do not forget to provide reasons to support your various philosophical, cognitive, epistemological, and mathematical assertions. You may also anticipate criticisms of your own arguments and respond to them, or explain opposing views of a problem, indicating why you consider one view better than another (or why you consider some views better than others).
1) The three essays must each be at least 2,500 words and no more than 3,500 words in length. 2) You may refer to notes and books and discuss with other students, but the essays must reflect a “personal” analysis and refer to the texts indicated in this program. 3) Indicate your first and last name, student ID number, and degree program.
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Texts
**THE FINAL EXAM PROGRAM WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE CLASSES**
Further details about what materials should be actually considered will be provided during classes.
The student who will not attend the classes have to contact the professor to get (or to negotiate) the actual final program for the exams.
Provisional bibliography (please see the final exam program on May).
Philosophy students:
L. MAGNANI, Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning, Springer, Berlin/New York.
P. THAGARD, Rivoluzioni concettuali, Guerini, Milan,1994.
LAKATOS, Dimostrazioni e confutazioni, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1978.
A.F. CHALMERS, What is This Thing Called Science?, Third Edition, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1999.
Or A.F. Chalmers, Che cos’è questa scienza in Italiano (presso CLU, via S. Fermo 3, tel. 0382 29130)
Mathematic students:
I. LAKATOS, Dimostrazioni e confutazioni, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1978.
A.F. CHALMERS, What is This Thing Called Science?, Third Edition, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1999.
Or A.F. Chalmers, Che cos’è questa scienza? in Italian
L. MAGNANI, Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning, Springer, Berlin/New York.
L. MAGNANI, Conoscenza come dovere. Moralità distribuita in un mondo tecnologico, Aracne, Rome, 2019.
For everyone: Material chosen by the student, concerning a particular study project, upon agreement with the professor.
All the student will have to check the actual final programs for the exams on April.
Further details about what materials should be actually considered will be provided during classes.
The student who will not attend the classes have to contact the professor to get (or to negotiate) the actual final program for the exams.
Provisional bibliography (please see the final exam program on May).
Philosophy students:
L. MAGNANI, Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning, Springer, Berlin/New York.
P. THAGARD, Rivoluzioni concettuali, Guerini, Milan,1994.
LAKATOS, Dimostrazioni e confutazioni, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1978.
A.F. CHALMERS, What is This Thing Called Science?, Third Edition, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1999.
Or A.F. Chalmers, Che cos’è questa scienza in Italiano (presso CLU, via S. Fermo 3, tel. 0382 29130)
Mathematic students:
I. LAKATOS, Dimostrazioni e confutazioni, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1978.
A.F. CHALMERS, What is This Thing Called Science?, Third Edition, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1999.
Or A.F. Chalmers, Che cos’è questa scienza? in Italian
L. MAGNANI, Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning, Springer, Berlin/New York.
L. MAGNANI, Conoscenza come dovere. Moralità distribuita in un mondo tecnologico, Aracne, Rome, 2019.
For everyone: Material chosen by the student, concerning a particular study project, upon agreement with the professor.
All the student will have to check the actual final programs for the exams on April.
Contents
The course will analyze in depth some issues that are crucial to the philosophy of science and technology, and it aims at introducing students to the different kinds of scientific reasoning, to the cognitive aspects of science and to the relationships between science, technology and values. Furthermore, the course will also include advanced investigations of certain actual issues in computational philosophy, stressing cognitive and epistemological aspects of scientific creativity, of abduction and of evaluation among scientific theories.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Students that do not attend the course are requested to send contact the teacher by email.
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MATHEMATICS
Master’s Degree
2 years
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Master’s Degree
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