- Docente: Sebastiano Moruzzi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-FIL/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philosophical Sciences (cod. 8773)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Semiotics (cod. 8886)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)
Learning outcomes
Understanding of the philosophical debate on the nature of truth with particular attention to the main monist theories and of the pluralist theories.
Course contents
Truth and Pluralism
In recent scientific literature the investigation of pluralism hinges on truth: in each different domain – ethics, mathematics, physics, aesthetics, taste, literature, etc. – we make true and false claims, though the property playing the role of being true varies from domain to domain (e.g. assertability in ethics, coherence in mathematics, correspondence in physics ).
The course will explore the main monist and pluralist theories of truth.
Readings/Bibliography
Textbook: Giorgio Volpe, Teorie della verità, Guerini, Milano, 2005 [in English an alternative textbook is Chase Wrenn, Truth, Polity press, Cambridge, 2015]
Selection from the collection M. Lynch (ed), The Nature of Truth, MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 2001
Excerpts from Crispin Wright, Truth and Objectivity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1992.
Excerpts from Michael Lynch, Truth as One and Many, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009.
Selection from the collection N. Pedersen & C. Wright (eds), Truth Pluralism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013.
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, peer instruction method.
Assessment methods
Continuous assessment with online comprehension tests and peer instruction method. Paper to be written by the end of the course and oral exam.
Teaching tools
Elearning, slide and handouts, Kahoot software for peer instruction.
Office hours
See the website of Sebastiano Moruzzi