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Sebastiano Moruzzi

Associate Professor

Department of the Arts

Academic discipline: PHIL-04/B Philosophy and Language theory

Research

Keywords: truth relativism philosophy of logic vagueness knowledge pluralism philosophy for children ontology and meta-ontology didactic of philosophy metaphysics of science interdisciplinarity between science and humanities disagreement

Philosophy for children: Is it feasible to let children and young people practice philosophy? If so, what are the most effective methods?

Truth: what is the nature of truth? Is there only way of being truth?

Relativism & Contxtualism: can relativism account for faultless disagreement?

Vagueness: vagueness is widespread in languahe, what is the nature of this phenomenon?

Knowledge: when knowledge transmits through an argument we acquire knowledge. Some justifcations of some philosophical theories fail to transmit, that is why these theories are not convincing.

Ontology of applied sciences: which ontological and meta-ontological theories (eg mereotopology) is effective in building ontologies for applied sciences? Study and development of EMMO ontology (European Materials Modeling Ontology).

Philosophy teaching and philosophical practices: active learning didactic for philosophy (peer instruction) and methods for practicing philosophy (community of inquiry).


Is it possible to let children and young people practice philosophy? If so, what are the most effective methods?
Is it possible to let children and young people practice philosophy? If so, what are the most effective methods?
Is it possible to let children and young people practice philosophy? If so, what are the most effective methods?