85022 - Laboratory Digital Resources (1) (G.D)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the lactivity, the student is able to use digital resources providing support for studies, teaching and research.

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 First Cycle Degree/Bachelor in Philosophy (corsi.unibo.it/1cycle/Philosophy ). Up to 40 students may attend each laboratory. Classes will be given in Italian or in English, as indicated by each teacher on their laboratory web pages.

To enrol in the I or II semester Workshops, students must apply directly to the chosen teacher, by e-mail (please indicate as subject: Philosophy Workshop). Applications will be open from 1 to 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.

Attendance — both face-to-face and online, if streaming is activated — will be verified by signature on sign-in sheets or by log-in online. 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.

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.

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. During the laboratory, teachers will provide instructions on how to write the final essay, and all students are requested to download and study the manual of philosophical writing, which can be found atcorsi.unibo.it/laurea/Filosofia/laboratorio-di-filosofia-norme-per-la-redazione-del-saggio-finale (in Italian).

Readings/Bibliography

Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, a cura di Carlo Natali, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 1999 (rist. 2005).

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. Translation, introduction, and commentary, edited by Sarah Broadie and Christopher Rowe, Oxford University Press 2002.

Teaching methods

The Laboratory is divided into the following three sections:

- illustration of the rules of philosophical writing and argument analysis.

- introduction to the main issues of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

- students' presentations.

Assessment methods

Students will be assessed by means of

- class exercises and individual presentations (individually or in coordinated groups).

and/or (depending on the results achieved in the classroom)

- a final written paper (min. 12,000 characters, max. 15,000 characters, references excluded) to be handed in by e-mail at least 15 days before the exam date. The paper must deal with one of the topics discussed in class and it must be linguistically and stylistically correct.

Teaching tools

Further readings will be provided via Virtuale.

Office hours

See the website of Pia Campeggiani