30413 - Philosophy Laboratory (1) (G.I)

Learning outcomes

The student learns to read and critically analyze philosophical texts and to write a philosophical essay.

Course contents

General Information

The Philosophy Workshop has three main purposes: education to philosophical writing and editorial conventions; introduction to the use of bibliographic resources; introduction to how to read a philosophical classic and how to produce a short philosophical essay about it.

The success of workshops ideally requires regular attendance of all students at all meetings. In order to be admitted to the final exam and achieve a pass, students will need to have attended at least 12 out of 15 classes (24 hours out of 30).

Students can choose from several proposals of Philosophy Workshops (programmes and teachers’ names are available on the website of the Degree Course in Philosophy). Up to 40 students may attend each laboratory. “Attending” means both those attending face-to-face lectures and those attending online lectures.

To enrol in the I or II semester Workshops, students must send, by e-mail, an application to the chosen teacher (subject: Philosophy Workshop) between 1 and 15 September, 2022. Each teacher will accept up to 40 requests. Excess requests and those submitted after 15 September will be redistributed based on the availability of vacancies.

In the light of several unpleasant episodes of signature falsification in recent years, in the event that it is proved that even a single signature has not been made by the corresponding student, that student will be excluded from the final exam and will have to wait until the next year to attend the Workshop again. The same standards will hold for students submitting written exams which are totally or partially copied from published sources or digital texts. In the case of online attendance, the “participants” present at the lectures on Teams will be counted.

Only in the event of certified inability to attend the Workshop are students allowed to arrange an alternative programme with the relevant teacher of the module in question. Such cases include:

- working students who cannot obtain specific permission to attend the Workshop. Such students must inform the teacher at the beginning of the module and prove by a declaration of their employers their inability to attend.

- Erasmus and Overseas students. Such students must promptly provide documentary evidence to the teacher showing their inability to attend on grounds of residence abroad.

Attending and non-attending students must acquire as soon as possible the manual of philosophical writing, which can be found online on the website of the Degree Course in Philosophy.

For attending students assessment will consist in the submission and discussion of a short essay on the philosophical text discussed in the Workshop attended. The essay will be evaluated both for form and for content.

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Philosophy Laboratory (1)(G.I)

G.F.W. Hegel, Science of Logic

The Philosophy Laboratory will be dedicated to the critical reading of Hegel's Science of Logic, a classic in the history of Western philosophy.

Particular attention will be paid to the first part of the text (the "Objective Logic").

Students will be required to produce a paper on the analyzed text at the end of the Laboratory.

 

Workshop

The course will include an integrative lecture on Hegel’s dialectical Method, wich will be given by Vladimiro Giacché:

 

• Vladimiro Giacché, Soggettività, autorelazione e contraddizione nella Scienza della Logica (13.04.2023, 15.00, Classroom C via Zamboni 34)

Students who participate in Giacché’s lecture will be entitled to attend eleven, rather than twelve, lectures for the final exam.

 

Starting date: 22rd March 2022

Wednesday 11:00 - 13:00, classroom D (via Zamboni 34)

Thursday 15:00–17:00, classroom B (via Zamboni 34)

Friday 15:00–17:00, classroom C (via Zamboni 34)

 

Readings/Bibliography

1. Primary reading:

G.W.F. Hegel, Scienza della Logica , 2 voll., Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008, vol. II, pp. 647 segg. [Selected Parts *]

* See Teaching Resources

 

2. Critical Readings (suggested):

Secondary literature is not compulsory, but recommended for an introduction to reading the text. Students can choose one or more of these texts:

• E. Fleischmann, La logica di Hegel, Einaudi, Torino 1975
• V. Giacché, Hegel. La dialettica, Diarkos, Santarcangelo di Romagna 2019
• Id., Finalità e soggettività. Forme del finalismo nella Scienza della Logica di Hegel, Pantograf, Genova 1990
• P. Giuspoli, Verso la «Scienza della logica». Lezione di Hegel a Norimberga, Verifiche, Trento 2000
• P. Giuspoli, L. Illetterati, G. Mendola, Hegel, Carocci, Roma 2010
  
• S. Houlgate, The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity, Purdue University Press, West Lafayette 2006
  
• A. Nuzzo (a cura di), La logica e la metafisica di Hegel. Guida alla critica, Carocci, Roma 1993
• A. Nuzzo, La logica, in Guida a Hegel, a cura di C. Cesa, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1997, 2002, pp. 39-82
  

 

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures

Assessment methods

Students will be required:

- to write a paper on one of the topics discussed in class.

- to discuss the themes of the paper with Professor Imbriano.

Teaching tools

Traditional lectures with the support of Power Point

Office hours

See the website of Gennaro Imbriano