Philosophy

The Faculty of Education participates with its teaching, organizational and research resources, together with the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, in the activation of this Graduate Programme.

The following skills, knowledge and abilities are specific educational objectives qualifying the Graduate Programme in Philosophy, which pertains to class LM 78:

• Graduates will be guided both to the acquisition of an in-depth knowledge of the historical evolution of philosophical thought, and to the theoretical deepening of specific ethical, anthropological and bioethical, epistemological and metaphysical problems. The training of the students will take place within differentiated teaching curricula and must conclude with specific research of a distinctly scientific nature;
• Graduates will be able to use fluently, in written and oral form, in addition to Italian, English (compulsory) and French or German (optional), with reference also to disciplinary lexicons;
• Graduates will also possess those computer and telematic skills that today make scientific research easier, even in the field of humanities;
• Graduates will be able to benefit from an organic philosophical training to access the subsequent levels of training for the achievement of the qualification for secondary teaching or professional areas of communication and training and management of human resources.

Programme Structure

The programme focuses on three fundamental areas of research and training. These areas, based on the revival of the classical and metaphysical tradition and its critical actualization in the contemporary world, are: the ethical-bioethical-anthropological field, the historical-philosophical field, the theoretical-logical-epistemological field.

In the Historical-Philosophical field, the aim is to provide students with an in-depth knowledge of the methodological and theoretical tools of philosophical studies, and to provide them with an adequate knowledge of the historical evolution of philosophical thought. The essential and foundational issues of philosophy will be addressed through a careful and critical study of the authors of the Western metaphysical tradition and of the contemporary philosophical debate. Therefore, the reference to the texts will be essential and must be conducted with philological and critical awareness.

In the Ethical-Bioethical-Anthropological field, the aim is to deepen the knowledge of practical philosophy, ethics and bioethics with attention also to the relationship with the human sciences. The main object of the related teaching is the speculative structure of the practical and its most relevant problems, in particular those concerning the human person in the scientific, cultural and social context of the contemporary era. This teaching is aimed at acquiring appropriately critical skills in the history and theory of practical and ethical knowledge, also in order to address the anthropological problems posed by bioethics in relation to contemporary scientific and medical issues. Furthermore, it will provide the conceptual tools necessary to analyze the fundamental themes of ethical-political reflection.

In the Theoretical-Logical-Epistemological field, the aim is to acquire conceptual and methodological tools useful for the development of critical and in-depth skills in the fields of theoretical philosophy, logic, philosophy of sciences (formal, natural and human), ontology and its metaphysical implications; In particular, the aim is to deepen theoretical reflection starting from the classical metaphysical tradition (ancient, medieval, modern), up to the contemporary expressions of the philosophy of existence and the most recent analytic ontology.