METAPHYSICS

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: ALBERTO GIOVANNI BIUSO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Introduce metaphysics as a science that investigates the different ways of existence of entities, as a question that seeks the perennial reasons of the contingent. Its fundamental objectives are the learning and practice of philosophical exercise as a science of being, truth and time.

Course Structure

Frontal lessons, which will focus on reading and analyzing texts.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

METAPHISICS

The course intends to introduce the fundamental concepts of metaphysics, their history and their presence in contemporary philosophy.

Textbook Information

- Alberto G. Biuso, Sul realismo, in L’invenzione della realtà. Scienza, mito e immaginario nel dialogo tra psiche e mondo oggettivo, ETS 2022, pp. 125-135 (pdf)

- Enrico Berti, Introduzione alla metafisica, II edizione, Utet 2017, pp. XI-200

- Martin Heidegger. Che cos’è metafisica?; Poscritto a «Che cos’è metafisica?»; Introduzione a «Che cos’è metafisica?», in «Segnavia», Adelphi 1987, pp. 59-77; 257-266; 317-334

- Alberto G. Biuso, Tempo e materia. Una metafisica, Olschki 2020, pp. 168

 

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
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