EPISTEMOLOGIA SOCIALE E RAGIONAMENTO INFORMALE

Frontal lessons and discussion in class.

The thought: deductive inference and its formal treatment; the other forms of inference; the fallacies.

Rationality: the standard view, the empirical studies, bounded rationality, the evolutionary theories, dual models, rationality and argumentation.

Automatic and social factors in decision making: the evolutionary bases of morality; affiliation mechanisms and group instincts; motivated reasoning; ideology and belief polarization.

1) A.Coliva, E. Lalumera, Pensare. Leggi ed errori del ragionamento, Roma, Carocci, 2006 (140 pages).

2) P. Labinaz, La razionalità, Roma, Carocci, 2013 (127 pages).

3) J. Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Vintage, 2012 (528 pages)