The course of Science and Metaphysics is part of the program in Philosophy and it is included among the complementary training activities.The aim of this course is to illustrate and discuss philosophical issues connected to science, and the contribution that scientific theories can make towards our understanding of the fundamental structure of reality. Students will acquire knowledge of specific research themes at the boundary between theoretical philosophy and the empirical sciences, as well as the ability to compare the methods, themes and results of philosophy and science, and put them together.
Students will be able to apply the knowledge acquired in the discussion and argument both from a theoretical and a scientific perspective. At the end of the course the student will acquire:
-) Ability to analyze and interpret philosophical and scientific texts;
-) Properties of language and argumentation;
-) Ability to contextualize the acquired knowledge in the philosophical and scientific debate.
Students will be able to apply the knowledge acquired in the discussion and argument both from a theoretical and a scientific perspective. At the end of the course the student will acquire:
-) Ability to analyze and interpret philosophical and scientific texts;
-) Properties of language and argumentation;
-) Ability to contextualize the acquired knowledge in the philosophical and scientific debate.
teacher profile teaching materials
Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries Springer 2022
(per chi non legge l'inglese questo testo è sostituito da P. Redondi, Brevi storie del tempo, Laterza)
2) N. Huggett, 1999, Space from Zeno to Einstein, MIT PRESS
Programme
In general, the course will focus on the history and philosophy of space and time, giving particular emphasis to the relationship between physical and experiential time. Within this relationship, the nature of the present moment is particularly important: while physics can safely ignore such a moment, in our experience it separates an immutable past from a future that is not conceived deterministically or fatalistically but is rather regarded as open to our free decisions.Core Documentation
1) Friedel Weinert The March of Time. Evolving Conceptions ofTime in the Light of Scientific Discoveries Springer 2022
(per chi non legge l'inglese questo testo è sostituito da P. Redondi, Brevi storie del tempo, Laterza)
2) N. Huggett, 1999, Space from Zeno to Einstein, MIT PRESS
Reference Bibliography
Mazur J. The measured time. Our myth of measured Time. D. Mermin, Its about timeType of delivery of the course
frontal lecturesAttendance
ATTENDANCE REQUIREDType of evaluation
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