FILO 2145

Introduzione alla filosofia della mente

Filosofia

Academic Year 2023-2024

Duration

II semestre

Class beginning dates

12/02/2024

Introduction

Philosophy of Mind (Philosophy of Mind) constitutes an emerging, active and fruitful field of contemporary anthropological reflection that arose in the analytical sphere, but is heir to the entire Western tradition born in Greece from the reflections on the constitution of the human being carried on by Plato and Aristotle, but also by Democritus. The “red thread” of the relationship between soul and body, later declined in modernity as the mind-body relationship, and which today is articulated, in the light of research in neuroscience, psychiatry and clinical psychology, as the mind-brain relationship, constitutes the pivot of the debate in philosophy of mind. This course provides the student with an initial approach to contemporary mind-body problems and the main theories that have arisen throughout history to resolve the problematic nature of the human constitution by capacitating him or her to describe and analyze them critically from a diachronic perspective. After dealing, in an overview manner, with the different theories and problems of the mind-body relationship in contemporary times, the student is presented in an articulate manner with the different solutions: from idealism to neutral monism, from dualisms to monisms, up to ilemorphic theories and a proposal of an Aristotelian-Thomistic framework as a possible “recipe” to overcome a certain dead end in the philosophy of mind itself.

Useful Information

Dates

Activities will take place from 12/02/2024to 20/05/2024 (including exams)

Class Schedule

Lunedì: 8:30 – 10:15
Martedì: 10:30 – 12:15

Docenti

Alberto Carrara
M.D., Ph.D.

Email: alberto.carrara@upra.org

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