SCIENZE UMANISTICHETextual studies for digital professionsAcademic Year 2022/2023
9793858 - STORIA ED EPISTEMOLOGIA DELLE MACCHINE
Teacher: LUIGI INGALISO
Expected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to ensure that students acquire a critical awareness of the history and of epistemology of machines and get to know the thought of the main authors of the Twentieth century.
In particular, the course aims to make students achieve the following specific learning objectives, according to the Dublin descriptors:
1) Knowledge and insight.
The students possess the basic understanding of the historical development of machine idea, know the major currents of thought and the work and critical reflection of the major representatives of the philosophy of science of the Twentieth century.
2) Applying knowledge and insight.
The students can address epistemological issues and problems starting from their historical contextualization, opening to the possibility of referring them to contemporaneity and therefore to the understanding and resolution of problems within their own field of study and research, and beyond.
3) Judgment.
The students possess the ability to develop their own judgment on the major philosophical themes dealt with and can autonomously interpret the reflections present in the philosophical texts.
4) Communication.
The students are aware of how to present and communicate, both orally and in writing, the contents of the course and the critical reflections that start from it, reasoning logically and using the specific vocabulary of the discipline in an adequate manner.
5) Learning skills.
The students can actively participate in educational dialogue, enhancing the capacity for critical reflection on the development of their training path.Course Structure
Lectures.
Detailed Course Content
A) History of computer; B) Artificial intelligence and scientific method; C) Human beings and artificial intelligence.
Textbook Information
A. History of computer (2 ECTS):
T. Numerico, Alan Turing e l’intelligenza delle macchine, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2005, pp. 1-187.
G. Balbi – P. Magaudda, Storia dei media digitali. Rivoluzioni e continuità, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2014, pp. 36-86.
B. Artificial intelligence and scientific method (2 ECTS):
D. Gillies, Intelligenza artificiale e metodo scientifico, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 1998, pp. 1-199.
C. Human beings and artificial intelligence (2 ECTS):
M. Tegmark, Vita 3.0. Essere umani nell’era dell’inelligenza artificiale, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2017, pp. 1-178.
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