Unit LOGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING
- Course
- Law
- Study-unit Code
- A001392
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Simona Carlotta Sagnotti
- Teachers
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- Simona Carlotta Sagnotti
- Hours
- 54 ore - Simona Carlotta Sagnotti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Filosofico-giuridico
- Academic discipline
- IUS/20
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course aims to analyze and deepen the logical aspects of legal science, both on a theoretical and on a practical level. During the course, some past and current trials will be analysed, with reference to recent judicial cases.
- Reference texts
- Any adjustments to the exam program for attending and non-attending students, working students, Erasmus students, students with disabilities and/or SLD, will be agreed with the teacher by appointment to be made in class or by e-mail (by writing to simona.sagnotti@unipg.it).
- Educational objectives
- The course deals with theory and practice, moving from practice to arrive at theory: in fact, from the analysis of concrete cases it is possible to deduce the logical rules that must be respected so that the final sentence can be considered logically founded and consequently also fair .
- Prerequisites
- Respect for preparatory requirements (Philosophy of Law).
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and analysis of jurisprudential cases.
- Other information
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam.
- Extended program
- An important part of the course is so dedicated to the study of judicial cases, including recent ones, with attention both to the arguments of the hearing phase of the trials and to the arguments presented in the indictments or arguments of the parties no less than in the sentences. In this line, in particular, some sentences of the Italian Court of Cassation will be analyzed with reference to those defects that are called logicality defects. Alongside the analysis of logical arguments particularly widespread in the judicial field, such as the argument of authority, by analogy, by definition, etc., the fallacies will also be studied, i.e. those arguments endowed with an appearance of logic but in reality lacking it. Such erroneous or fallacious arguments are often contained in classic but still current sophisms.
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