“Analytic philosophy” must be understood to mean those conceptions of philosophy as “original language analysis, first developed in England (Oxford and Cambridge schools) in the 1950s and 1960s, in the wake of the teaching of the late Wittgenstein, by philosophers of the caliber of Austin, Ryle and Strawson, and continued in the United States in the following decades, with Quine, Kripke and Putnam, and in England itself with Wiggins, Williams and Dummett” (E. Berti).
Through a diachronic view that reaches from the birth of the analytic current to semiotics, this course has the overall goal of introducing the baccalaureate student to the philosophical orientation typical of what might rightly be called the half of the sky of contemporary philosophy, as well as to the
deconstructionist/critical current and the legacy of Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, up to the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas), to Jacques Derrida, passing through the hermeneutical current of Ricoeur, to the postmodern hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo, the hermeneutics and New Realism of Maurizio Ferraris, and concluding with semiotics from Peirce to Umberto Eco.