SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY AND INFORMAL REASONING

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) Knowledge and comprehension: students will learn the basics of cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, neuroscience, with a focus on the crisis of rationality. They will also learn a specific model of company management.

2) Ability to apply knowledge and comprehension: students will acquire the ability to look at complex work-related (and personal) situations with greater awareness of the dynamics that underly decision making and judgment formation.

3) Autonomy of judgment: the subject matter will be examined with the help of case studies, in order to prompt the students’ personal intuitions.

4) Communicative abilities: students will acquire the ability to appropriately express, analyze and discuss with other people, issues concerning decision making.

1) Rationality crisis, behavioral economics, management of emotions and ideological thinking.

1) M. Mazzone, Pensiero critico e pensiero ideologico, 2020, available on the platform Studium (250 pagg.)

2) K. Scott, Radical candor, New York, St. Martins, 2019 (pp.404) (or any other edition)

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