PROJECT EPISTEMOLOGY II

General Module

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2012/2013

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Disciplinary Sector:

LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Is part of:

TERRITORIAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

BACCHINI Fabio

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

AF code:

40002039

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The student is required to be able to increase her/his critical understanding of the dimensions of planning, referring in particular to the problems of realism (are our theories/models true of reality?) and of the meaning of architectural communication (how are we supposed to individuate the "real" meaning of a bulding?).

Contents

- Structuralism and definition of 'structure'
- Realism and objectivity
- Sign, meaning, code

Recommended Bibliography

1. personal notes from classes.
2. Ferdinand de Saussure, 1922, Course in General Linguistics, selected passages;
3. Umberto Eco, 1968, La Struttura Assente, selected passages;
4. Claude LÈvi-Strauss, 1945, ìStructural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropologyî;
5. Nelson Goodman, 1968, The Languages of Art, selected passages;
6. Ernest H. Gombrich, 1960, Art and Illusion, selected passages;
7. Remo Job e Rino Rumiati, 1984, Linguaggio e Pensiero, selected passages;
8. Hilary Putnam, 1987, The Many faces of Realism , selected passages;
9. Silvano Tagliagambe, 2005, Le Due Vie della Percezione e líEpistemologia del Progetto, selected passages;
10. Raymond Queneau, 1947, Esercizi di Stile.

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