Unit PARADIGMS OF THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT AND ETHICS OF RESEARCH
- Course
- Assessment of individual functioning in clinical and health psychology
- Study-unit Code
- A005958
- Curriculum
- Curriculum i
- Teacher
- Serena Meattini
- Teachers
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- Serena Meattini
- Emanuele Pili (Codocenza)
- Denise Vincenti (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 18 ore - Serena Meattini
- 2 ore (Codocenza) - Emanuele Pili
- 16 ore (Codocenza) - Denise Vincenti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- M-FIL/06
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- History of Scientific Thought; Ethics and Scientific Research
- Reference texts
- Selection of pages from: - Imre Lakatos, La metodologia dei programmi di ricerca scientifica (1978); - Evandro Agazzi, L’oggettività scientifica e i suoi contesti (2014)
- Educational objectives
- The student is expected to develop a critical awareness of the main paradigms that have shaped the development of scientific thought, as well as of the epistemological foundations of scientific inquiry, with particular attention to issues related to professional ethics. The course aims at: the acquisition of both philosophical and historical-scientific content within an interdisciplinary framework; the ability to read and interpret selected texts; and the development of critical, interpretative, and analytical skills.
- Prerequisites
- Basic philosophical concepts
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, seminars.
- Other information
- Attendance is not mandatory but strongly recommended. The detailed syllabus and additional information (including reference texts and readings suggested during the course) are available on the Unistudium platform (https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/).
- Learning verification modality
- Final oral examination
- Extended program
- The course aims to clarify the epistemological foundations of scientific inquiry by examining key paradigms in the history of scientific thought. A portion of the course will be devoted to exploring professional ethics (terminology and theoretical models), with particular attention to Alasdair MacIntyre’s concept of practice.
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