PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2015/2016

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Elementary notions of Sentence Logic. A recovery refresher will still be made. It aims at being helpful to all students, especially to those who had not passed logic examination of Elementary Logic during their undergraduate program.

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FILOSOFIA DELLA SCIENZA

HUMANITIES

AF code:

40002357

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam.

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

First module (Advanced Logic): The course aims at providing minimal logical skills (in addition to those acquired in the three-year courses) helpful for facing the typical issues in the philosophy of science dealt in the second module.

Second module (Philosophy of Science). The problem of natural laws. The aim of this second part of the course is to provide students with the conceptual tools with which to face the typical problems of contemporary philosophy of science, through the critical examination of one of them: the problem of the laws of nature.
A second objective is to provide basic knowledge of philosophy of science achieved through the examination of a central problem importance.

Contents

First module: General information on formal logic. The language of Sentence Logic. The truth-functional semantics of the Sentence Logic. The syntax of Sentence Logic. Natural Deduction. Validity and Completeness Theorems. Modal logic. The various systems of modal logic. Natural Deduction in modal logic. Kripke's Semantics of Possible Worlds.

Recommended Bibliography

Attending students

Slides and parts of the book "On the Plurality of Worlds" by David Lewis, edited by Alberto Mura, EUT, 2016.

Non-attending students:

Samir Okasha: Il primo libro di filosofia della scienza, Einaudi, 2006
Raffaella Campaner, Maria Carla Galavotti: La spiegazione scientifica. Modelli e problemi

Teaching Methods

Lectures and assignment of homework reading and exercises. Critical discussion with participation of students to the problems discussed in the second part of the course.

In the second part of the course two hours per week will be devoted to a seminar given by a student (in turn) where it will be read and commented on a significant text for the purpose of the educational objectives of the course.

Contacts/More Information

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