Università Roma Tre

The course is an introduction to the philosophy of mind informed by cognitive sciences. Cognitive science investigates complex organisms at the information-processing level of analysis, and it can be defined a peculiar level in the sense that it is suspended between two worlds. On the one hand, there is the ordinary image of ourselves as persons, namely as self-conscious, intentional, rational agents. On the other hand, we have the sub-personal sphere of the cerebral events, as investigated by neuroscience. Therefore, one of the main tasks for the philosopher of psychology is to unravel this peculiarity, trying to shed some light upon the relations between these different ways of describing ourselves. This course critically explores some classical attempts to accomplish this task.

Per gli studenti frequentanti:
Materiali forniti durante il corso.

Per gli studenti non frequentanti:
A. Paternoster - Introduzione alla filosofia della mente - Laterza, Roma 2010.
M. Marraffa e A. Paternoster - Persone, menti, cervelli - Mondadori Università, Milano 2012.

Testo consigliato (a tutti gli studenti) per approfondimenti:
Michael S Gazzaniga, Richard B Ivry, George R Mangun - Neuroscienze cognitive (seconda edizione italiana condotta sulla quarta edizione americana, a cura di A. Zani e A. Mado Proverbio) - Zanichelli, Milano 2015.