Corso di laurea in Scienze dell'Educazione

The course aims to meet the needs of the training in accordance with the principle of interdisciplinarity in the current courses of study. To this end, we will proceed to the historical-philosophical analysis and then to the understanding - on the philosophical, historical and scientific level - of the relationship between nature and man, with the deepening of the sources, but also of the secondary historiographical literature, with particular reference to European philosophical and scientific culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Both the acquisition of the relevant philosophical lexicon and the mastery of methods and tools of historical-philosophical analysis contribute to this formative objective. In this way the teaching has as its objective that the students are able to examine and compare the different conceptions of the debate on nature, evaluating the repercussions in the educational field and in the ecological approach of the contemporary natural sciences.

The expected results from the learning will consist in the deepening of the knowledge of the conceptions of the natural environment, in view of the relationship between philosophy and other areas of culture, scientific and artistic. At the end of the course, students must be able to elaborate and interpret in depth, autonomously and critically the research approaches, methodologies and perspectives of the various concepts examined, comparing methods, hypotheses and theories, but above all the philosophical conceptions that constituted the substratum, with particular reference to the discussion on naturalistic places, landscapes and constructions built by man. In this regard, they will also have to grasp its historiographical aspects. From the teaching given it is expected that, with autonomy of judgment, lexical and content mastery, ability to compare, students will be able to formulate ideas and elaborate critical arguments on the subject. With the ability to synthesize and understand the complex link between humanistic and scientific disciplines, they will have to independently and competently evaluate the result of the interaction between philosophical knowledge and artistic and manual disciplines, including architecture, and its conception of "built space" in harmony with the environment.

Traditional, and primary importance will be given to reading classical works.  Lessons will be recorded and uploaded to the Moodle platform.

The course includes 60 hours of lessons (equal to 9 credits) delivered in the classroom, with shifts of the students who are present, and in live streaming via the Webex platform (https://unito.webex.com/meet/germana.pareti) for students who cannot be present in the classroom. The weekly shifts of students in the classroom will be indicated by the Degree Course (https://educazione.campusnet.unito.it/do/corsi.pl/Home) near the start of the lessons.

“The modalities of
carrying out the teaching activity may be subject to variations based on the limitations imposed by the
ongoing health crisis. In any case, the distance modality is guaranteed for the whole academic year."

The method of verifying learning will depend on the number of attending students and the number of students enrolled in the appeals. In the case of high attendance, the written procedure with open-ended questions is provided, in response to which students will have to show that they know:

1. the eighteenth-century conception of the landscape from the program indicated above;

2. the ideas of twentieth-century philosophers and architectural Masters;

3. the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophy (in its essential lines)  with particular reference to:

Enlightenment, Naturphilosophie, positivism, pragmatism, late nineteenth-century philosophy of science, neopositivism, Russell, Wittgenstein, Popper.

It should also be noted that, in the case of a reduced number of enrolled students, the exam will consist of an oral test, while if the attending students will be numerous, there is the possibility of midterm written tests.

The grade is expressed in thirtieths and the sufficiency is the score 18/30, and regarding the exam program, there is no distinction between attending and non-attending students.

The program is divided into the following two parts:

1. the comparison between the natural environment and the built one, starting from the examination of eighteenth-century texts on nature, gardening and landscape;

2. the concept of "living" between philosophy, biology, psychology and theories of architecture, with particular reference to twentieth-century conceptions.

Readings from Shaftesbury (The Moralists), Burke (essay on the "Sublime") and Kant (Critique of Judgment), 
photocopies of which will be available in the Department library, as some of these texts are out of print.

M. Heidegger,  Costruire abitare pensare, «... Poeticamente abita l'uomo...» in Saggi e Discorsi, Mursia(photocopies of the text, which is out of print, will be available in the Philosophy library).

G. Simmel, Saggi sul paesaggio, Armando editore.

G. Pareti, Il paesaggio tra l'ordine e il corpo, ETS, forthcoming.

The history of philosophy according to the above mentioned program to be studied on any high school text, with special reference to:

Enlightenment, Naturphilosohie, positivism, pragmatism, Philosophy of sciences between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Russell, Wittgenstein, Popper