MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Course Sheet

Course code:

PSI0302

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Divisions:

Cognomi N-Z

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Is part of:

MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ACHELLA STEFANIA

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

History of contemporary philosophy and of psychology between 800 and 900.

Objectives

The course aims to offer to the students a historical-critical approach to the modern psychological categories. The analysis of the relationship between biological conceptions and ethical perspectives alongside epistemological issues will serve to offer a broader perspective for the reading of the history of psychology and for the understanding of how its practical and epistemological tools have evolved, highlighting the possible prejudices, as well as the need for a critical attitude against positivist reductionism in the understanding of life by the medical sciences.

Contents

The course aims to reconstruct some aspects of the epistemological debate on psychological reflection and its ethical implications. Through Georges Canguilhem’ remarks on the relationship between science and life and Michel Foucault on the clinic's history. With specific attention to the Foucaultian archaeological method. Finally, the course will offer an overview of the more general epistemological debate on psychology.

Extended Syllabus

The course starts from the reflections of Georges Canguilhem, whose publications in the field of epistemology have for decades provided fundamental impulses for international debate and analysis. In particular, the course will focus on the normal and pathological and then compare Canguilhelm's reading with that of Foucault in the history of clinic. Finally, the course aims to provide the fundamental lines of the debate on the philosophy of psychology.

Recommended Bibliography

Geoges Canguilhem, Il normale e il patologico

Michel Fouacult
Storia della clinica

Guazzelli/Battaglia, Verso un nuovo modello epistemologico dello psicologo clinico, in Sui presupposti di un nuovo umanesimo a cura di G. Baptist; Mimesis

Alfredo Civita, Filosofia della psicologia, nel volume a cura di Nicla Vassallo, Filosofie delle scienze, 2003, pp. 281-317.

Teaching Methods

Lessons, reading and commentary of texts, seminars by experts, verification tests

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The examination will consist of an oral interview with the teacher. It aims to assess the knowledge and understanding of the topics covered during the course.
The grade is expressed in thirtieth

Contacts/More Information

During the course, will be indicated the parts object of examination.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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