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Teaching is concentrated in the faculties and schools, and the departments deal with research, which is also conducted by institutes and chairs, at the same time responsible for knowledge promotion.
Study of the goals of Social and Cultural Anthropology based on knowledge from the classical schools –authors and monographs–, the ethnographic method and the discipline’s main work areas (kinship, religion, economy and policy).
Introduction to the writing techniques and conventions of academic texts and to resources for their presentations and oral defences, especially regarding ICTs.Production of written texts and oral discourses in accordance with the various textual typologies.
The main objective is to provide the student with knowledge of the conceptual bases of the discipline.Certain basic concepts and a perspective of epistemological development of Human Geography are accordingly introduced.Keys aspects of the contents will be: the evolution of Geography (from Geographical Societies to the current profession of geographer); demographic growth and world urbanisation; the population and migrations; economic activity and spatial organisation; power and territory.
Generalist and introductory approach to the main problems of contemporary and current philosophical debate, putting the focus mainly on its ethical, social and political implications.Special emphasis will be put on the problems relating to bioethics and cultural and gender diversity.
Philosophical study of humans and their cultural creations
General introduction to aesthetics as a discipline of philosophy starting from a presentation of the fundamental systematic problems and a historical study of classic authors and their main theories, from ancient philosophy through to the 18th century.
Introduction to the main theories and the main debates of ethics as a philosophical discipline. The specificities of contemporary ethical discussions and inherent debates will be addressed, placing a particular emphasis on the kind of ethical and practical problems that characterise contemporary democratic society, such as individual freedom in the face of technologies, bioethics, gender equality and distributive justice.
Introduction to the most important discussions in current ethical reflection with a special mention for meta-ethics. Questions such as relativism, subjectivism, free will, moral luck and gender bias in traditional moral rationality will be approached.Similarly, the course reviews and updates contemporary debates on the philosophy of moral language.
Historical introduction to pre-Socratic philosophy with explicit consideration of the problem of sources and systematic approach to the main problems dealt with in the various currents of the period’s philosophy.
Historical introduction to post-Socratic philosophy with explicit consideration of the problem of sources and systematic approach to the main problems dealt with in the various currents of the period’s philosophy.
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