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

Learning outcomes

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

Course contents

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Philosophy Laboratory has three goals: teaching the rules of writing and composition; an introduction on how to use bibliographic tools; an introduction on how to read a philosophy classic and the creation of a short philosophical essay on said classic.
The success of workshops is based on regular attendance of all students to all meetings In order to be admitted to the final exam and gain a pass, therefore, students will need to have attended at least 12 out of 15 classes (24 hours out of 30).
Students can choose among five proposals of Philosophy Laboratory (programs and teachers names are available on the web guide of the Degree Course of Philosophy).
45 students are expected for each laboratory.
To enroll in the I or II semester Laboratories, students must send, by e-mail, the application to the chosen teacher (subject: Philosophy Laboratory) between  20 and 25 September 2019. Each teacher will accept up to 45 requests.
Excess requests and those submitted after September 25th will be redistributed based on the availability of vacancies.
Because of several unpleasant episodes of signature falsification occurred in the last years, in case it is proved that even a single signature has not been made by the corresponding student, such 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 previously existing paper or digital texts.
Only in case of certified impossibility to attend the Workshop students are allowed to arrange an alternative program with the corresponding teacher of the attended module. Such cases concern:
- working students who cannot obtain a specific permission to attend the Workshop. Such students must inform the teachers both oLaboratory at the beginning of the corresponding modules and prove by a declaration of their employers the impossibility of their attendance.
- Erasmus and Overseas students. Such students must promptly provide documentary evidence to both teachers of the Laboratory showing the impossibility of their attendance due to their living abroad.

Attending and not attending students must get as soon as possible the manual of philosophical writing, which can be found on line on the web page of the Degree Course of Philosophy and in paper form at the Copy Shop Centotrecento, in via Centotrecento.

For attending students the exam will consist in the submission and discussion of a short essay on the philosophical text on which the attended Laboratory has been held. The essay will be assessed both concerning his form as his content .
For more detailed informations on such Workshops (period, schedules, rooms, programs, etc.) see the website of each Laboratory  lecturer.

                ANNARITA ANGELINI Laboratory G.A
Sant'Anna, the Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the lamb 
                         and other backgrounds
      The concepts of place and space of Leonardo

Iconological reading of a painted 'text'

The aim of the course is to exemplify and illustrate the methods identifying philosophical and theoretical concepts in an iconographic text, starting from the landscape / subject - background / foreground relationship in some works by Leonardo da Vinci.
In particular the following paintings will be analyzed: The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (Louvre), The Annunciation (Uffizi), Mona Lisa (Louvre).
Paintings will be analyzed focusing on the conception of space and showing how Leonardo's precise stylistic choices correspond to the aim to representing / expressing a theoretical ideality precluded from sense and direct observation.

To enroll in this Laboratory, write to annarita.angelini@unibo.it

Readings/Bibliography

Students are suggested to add one of the following readings to the reading of the paintings (which will be held during the lessons).

- M. Kemp, Leonardo. Nella mente del genio, Torino, Einaudi, 2006

- D. Arasse, L'Annunciazione italiana, Firenze, La Casa Usher, 2009

- E. Panofscky, Studi di iconologia : i temi umanistici nell'arte del Rinascimento, Torino Einaudi, 1999

- A. Angelini, Matematica e immaginazione nel Rinascimento, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2017

Teaching methods

Lectures on the iconographic text.
Interventions by students

Assessment methods

The exam will consist in a paper on a topic agreed with the teacher. To be able to face this verification, aimed at assessing the critical, reflexive and expository abilities, as well as the student's editorial skills, students must have followed the lessons to the extent of 8/10 and have weekly complied with what was required and considered indispensable for participation ( founded and active) to the debate and discussion during class hours.
If the proof is exceeded, students obtain the "idoneità".

Teaching tools

The pictures of the works will be projected and broken down in class.
A part of the interpretation will be left to the students, who will be required to work on the basis of the examples, of the interpretative schemes and of the material presented and examined during the classes

Office hours

See the website of Annarita Angelini