Master’s Degree
1. Mandatory Disciplines
Concentration Area: Philosophy
Master’s Dissertation (90 Credit Hours)
Teaching Internship (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours – mandatory for scholars)
Syllabus: Practical teaching activities in Higher Education.
Dissertation Research I (1 Credit Unit, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Advising and research activities for the preparation of the dissertation. At this stage, the student should prepare the final version of his / her research project clearly defining the objectives, thematic and / or problematic that will be analyzed and the methodology of the research.
Dissertation Research II (1 Credit Unit, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Advising and research activities for the preparation of the dissertation. At this stage, the student should prepare the final version of his / her research project clearly defining the objectives, thematic and / or problematic that will be analyzed and the methodology of the research.
Dissertation Research III (1 Credit Unit, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Activities of advising, research and essay writing. The student, at this stage, should devote himself to writing the text of his dissertation. It is expected that he will write at least one chapter of his dissertation and have defined what he intends to address in the other chapters, so that he may be qualified to take the qualification examination.
Dissertation Research IV (1 Credit Unit, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Activities of advising, research and essay writing. At this stage, the student should have finished writing the chapters of his dissertation.
Qualification
Ethics Special Topics (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The subject aims to address topics pertinent to Ethics, in the most varied periods of the History of Philosophy.
Special Topics of Knowledge Theory (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The course aims to analyze the main problems of the Theory of Knowledge in modernity, taking as reference for this debate, the philosopher David Hume, observing with the different theories of this author, about the scope of our cognitive powers.
2. Elective Disciplines
Academic Activities (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Complementary curricular activities directed to the publication of texts, to the participation and organization of scientific events and to interdisciplinary formation.
Credits for Scientific Publication (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Special Studies I (1 Credit Unit, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Study of authors and themes of Philosophy defined at the discretion of the professor.
Special Studies II (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Syllabus: Study of authors and themes of Philosophy defined at the discretion of the professor.
Topics of Epistemology I (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The philosophy of the so-called first Wittgenstein present in the Logical Tractatus-philosophicus is an unfolding of the movement initiated by G.M. Moore, which consisted of a critique of idealistic philosophy. This tendency obtains continuity in the philosophy of the call "circle of Vienna" and, decisively in the philosophy of the "logical positivistas"; in Gottlob Frege's reflection on meaning and reference, in the epistemological thought of Rudolph Carnap, and in the propositional reflection of Bertand Russell. The course aims primarily to approach the contents and themes addressed by Wittgenstein in the Tractatus from their influences and thematic background.
Topics of Epistemology II (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: In this subject we intend to analyze themes and / or central problems of the Epistemology of Human Sciences: the question of the foundation and the emergence of these sciences, the classical models of scientific explanation and their applicability in the Human Sciences; interpretation and understanding of human phenomena and their various conceptions, the question of the possibility of objectivity in the research of human phenomena; the relation of Human Sciences to Philosophy, to ideologies and to values, as well as more specific questions related to the epistemology of psychoanalysis.
Topics of Aesthetics I (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The course will return to the relationship between love (éros), beauty (kállos) and discourse (logos) in the poetic-philosophical production of two thinkers from different periods of the History of Philosophy, Plato and Hölderlin. The guiding element of the intended debate between Classical Antiquity and modern thought will come from the representations of Diotima, proposed by the Greek philosopher and the German poet. In the discursive structure of the Eucharist, Diotima says to Socrates, Plato introduces and mixes, in the discourse of Mantineia's wife, the great specialist in the things of love, the language and practices of the mysteries, the reception of poetic elements that refer to the song erotic-loving Sappho of Lesbos, allied to the discursive genre he created, philosophical prose. The tessitura of the Hölderliana character rescues the nature of the Platonic character, the notions of ambiguity and otherness. In the Hilderlian discourse on love and beauty, Diotima, the protagonist of Hipérion and the series of poems dedicated to her, is in fact Susette Gontard, for whom the poet was passionate. In the re-reading of Plato's Diotima and Hölderliana, the counterpoint between visible and invisible beauty, the divine and the human, the beautiful natural and the beautiful artistic, key-interpretative to connect and separate two distinct and similar ways of thinking love and beauty.
Topics of Aesthetics II (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The course will take up the Aristotelian theory of passions (pathe) in Book II of Rhetoric. The leading axis of the debate involving the discourse on the affections of the psyche (pathemata tes psykhes) will refer us to the definition of the tragedy in the Poetics and to the Straits of Euripides, in the sense of observing the role of the logos, in the discourse of the tragic characters, element that drives the movement between reason and affection.
Topics of Philosophy of Art (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Problematization about the relationship between Philosophy and Art.
Philosophy of Science Topics (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Thematic course on problems and fundamental concepts of the Philosophy of Science. Emphasis will be placed on significant authors in the current debate on the Philosophy of Science, namely Popper and Kuhn.
Topics of Philosophy of Language (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Analysis of problems and themes of Philosophy of Language.
Topics of Political Philosophy (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Analysis of problems and theories of Political Philosophy.
Topics of Metaphysics I (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The aim of the discipline is to emphasize (through themes or authors) the efforts of the most eminent philosophers of the modern period, who, in view of the methodological effectiveness of scientific knowledge consolidated by Newtonianism, try to refound or, in certain cases cancel, the metaphysics that had entered into crisis with the science of the world freed from theological authority and the scholastic philosophical tradition strongly marked by Aristotelianism. Metaphysics, or philosophy, from Descartes to Kant can be said to be revealed in the continual attempts of modern rationalism to find a new destiny for the first science.
Topics of Metaphysics II (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The discipline intends to analyze the redefinitions and the new questionings, from Hegel's Absolute Idealism, to the concept of Metaphysics, privileging positions of Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Analytical Philosophy, Philosophy of Difference and Transcendental Pragmatics.