Unit PHENOMENOLOGY AND THEORIES OF PERCEPTION

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Course
Philosophy and psychological science and techniques
Study-unit Code
40A00028
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Nicoletta Ghigi
Teachers
  • Nicoletta Ghigi
Hours
  • 36 ore - Nicoletta Ghigi
CFU
5
Course Regulation
Coorte 2024
Offered
2025/26
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Sector
M-FIL/01
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Phenomenology between bioethics and anti-reductionism.
Reference texts
REQUIRED READINGS: - E. Husserl, The Idea of Europe, Il Saggiatore; - T. Fuchs, Ecology of the Brain, Astrolabio 2021. RECOMMENDED READINGS: -- Spinicci, P. (2025) Rappresentazionalismo, fenomenismo, realismo diretto. Un corso di filosofia della percezione, - Svenaeus, F. (2018). Phenomenological Bioethics: Medical Technologies, Human Suffering, and the Meaning of Being Alive. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. - G. Stanghellini-M. Mancini, “Mondi psicopatologici” (Psychopathological Worlds). - M. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, Bompiani, latest edition. - V. Costa, and L. Cesana, “Fenomenologia della cura medica” (Phenomenology of Medical Care), Morcelliana, Brescia 2019; - K. Jaspers, L'indirizzo fenomenologico in psicopatologia (The Phenomenological Approach to Psychopathology); - E. Minkowski, V. von Gebettel, E. Straus, Antropologia e psicopatologia (Anthropology and Psychopathology), Anicia 2013. - A. Molaro, G. Stanchellini, History of Clinical Phenomenology, UTET 2020. III. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR INCOMING STUDENTS: - D. Zahavi, Husserl's Legacy, Oxford Press 2017. - Coyne, L. (2023). What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, 2023, 48, 170–183. - Ferrarello, S. (2016). Husserl’s Ethics and Practical Intentionality. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. - Fuchs, T. (2019). The Interactive Phenomenal Field and the Life Space: A Sketch of an Ecological Concept of Psychotherapy, Phychopathology 52 (2). Working students and students with learning disabilities are kindly requested to contact the instructor directly for any questions regarding reference texts, course attendance, and exams.
Educational objectives
The training objectives are aimed at the acquisition of tools and skills and their individual critical use, which the three-part course aims to convey to the student and whose actual acquisition will be assessed in the final examination.¿The course also aims to achieve the following objectives¿Critical analysis of the main teaching methodologies developed in the research in didactics of philosophy, also with reference to the specific role of the teacher, to the conceptual, epistemological and didactic nodes of the teaching and learning of the disciplines of interest, and in function of the development of semiotic skills as well as the expansion of expressive and cognitive potential in the specific disciplinary field.¿¿Design and development of philosophy teaching activities: illustration of the principles and methodologies for the construction of activities and, more generally, of a philosophy curriculum, also bearing in mind the needs for language enhancement and consolidation of linguistic practices necessary for the achievement of training and education objectives in the disciplines of interest.
Prerequisites
In order to understand the issues of teaching it is necessary that the student has a solid knowledge of the history of philosophy and knows how to relate to abstract conceptual. Knowing these two issues is absolutely indispensable for the student who wants to follow the course with profit.
Teaching methods
1. Theoretical lessons face-to-face¿2. Seminars¿3. Pratical training (Optional)¿4. Laboratoty (Lectio magistralis)
Other information
The course will be held at the Department of Philosophy, Humanities and Education.
Learning verification modality
The main object of assessment concerns the acquisition of the critical capacity and individual use of the methodologies and tools acquired during the course, through the critical and methodical reading of the texts indicated in the programme and according to the phenomenological method illustrated during the course of the lectures.In addition, the test verifies the following aspects: 1. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding, autonomy of judgement, understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgements, arriving at coherent reflections on social, scientific or ethical issues; 2. Communication skills, conceived as the ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors; 3. Learning ability, understood as the ability required to progress in studies with a high degree of autonomy. The examination will take the form of a thirty-minute oral test in which the fundamental issues of the course will be covered.¿In the event that the student intends to sit the exam in a year prior to the year scheduled in the study plan, it is recommended that he/she attends the cycle of lectures and takes the exam in the first useful call after the lectures have ended, thus respecting the semester of the teaching schedule.¿¿Students with disabilities and/or SLDs are invited to visit the page on tools and measures and to agree in advance on what is necessary with the professor. (https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa).
Extended program
This course aims to highlight the current challenge posed by phenomenology to bioethics and cognitive reductionism. To this end, we will examine some classic texts of phenomenology, such as those by Conrad-Martius, Stein, and Husserl, on the one hand, and the more recent critical positions of Fuchs and contemporary phenomenological psychology, on the other.
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