Philosophy and Human Sciences
Doctoral programme (PhD)
A.Y. 2025/2026
Study area
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
PhD Coordinator
The doctoral programme in Philosophy and Human Sciences is a brand new higher education programme which integrates the skills required for theoretical and experimental research in disciplines such as anthropology, geography, linguistics, psychology and cognitive science, social science, art theory and criticism with the findings of philosophical research, both theoretical and historical. The programme makes use of the multidisciplinary skills of the Board of Lecturers and aims to provide extensive knowledge in specific sectors of basic and applied research. It promotes innovative and cutting-edge research in areas requiring the ability to master theories, methods and techniques from various fields. In particular, the programme aims to provide students with a solid philosophical and scientific grounding in one of the following research areas: (i) History of philosophical and scientific thought (ii) Ethics and political thought (iii) Image theory and phenomenology of experience (iv) Logic and theory of languages (v) Philosophy of mind and cognitive science (vi) Anthropology and territory.
Tutte le classi di laurea magistrale - All classes of master's degrees
Dipartimento di Filosofia "Piero Martinetti" - Via Festa del Perdono, 7 - Milano
- Main offices
Dipartimento di Filosofia "Piero Martinetti" - Via Festa del Perdono, 7 - Milano - Doctoral programme coordinator: Guicciardini Corsi Salviati Niccolo'
[email protected] - Website
https://dipafilo.unimi.it/it/node/6244/
| Title | Professor(s) |
|---|---|
| Contemporary Philosophy (1): Phenomenology; Existentialism; Hermeneutics; Philosophical Anthropology | |
| Contemporary Philosophy (2): Pragmatism and Philosophy of Practices; Genealogy | |
| Theories of language (1): Language and Metaphysics; Semantic Theories of Language | |
| Theories of language (2): Glottology; Comparative Linguistics; Comparative Morphosyntax | |
| Aesthetics (1): Image theories and Visual Culture; Theories of Cinema and Photography; Media Theories and Media Archaeologies; Cultural Studies | |
| Aesthetics (2): Performance Studies; Philosophy and Literature; Rhetoric; Neuroaesthetics; New Materialisms; Experimental Aesthetics | |
| Aesthetics (3): History of Aesthetics: Philosophical Concepts of Aesthetic Nature; Aesthetics in Premodern Philosophy | |
| Ethics and Politics (1): Contemporary Theories of Recognition and Justice; Identities (Gender) Theories | |
| Ethics and Politics (4): History of Modern Political Thought; Democracy; Public Opinion; Politics and Psychology; Medieval Models of Political and Economical Sovereignty | |
| Ethics and Politics (5): Foundations of ethics; Contemporary value theory; Philosophy of history; political philosophy (liberalism and communitarianism); philosophical anthropology | |
| History of Philosophy (1): Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic and Post-Hellenistic Philosophy | |
| History of Philosophy (2): The Platonic Tradition from Antiquity to German Idealism; The Aristotelian Tradition from Antiquity to the Modern Age | |
| History of Philosophy (3): Censorship and Libertas Philosophandi from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment | |
| History of Philosophy (4): Good life, virtue, and happiness from Antiquity to the Enlightenment | |
| History of Philosophy (5): History of Ethics from the 17th to the 20th Century | |
| History of Philosophy (6): Epistemology, Ethics and Politics in Ancient and Modern Thought | |
| History of Philosophy (8): Kant and German Classical Philosophy | |
| History of Philosophy (9): Metaphysics and Philosophy of Nature from Antiquity to the Modern Age | |
| History and Philosophy of the Sciences | |
| Anthropology (1): Material Culture, Media and Symbolic Representations | |
| Anthropology (2): anthropology of science and indigenous epistemologies | |
| Anthropology (3): mobility, solidarity, cooperation, humanitarianism and social identities; migrations and borders | |
| Anthropology (4): anthropology of nature; culture and environment; relationship between humans and non-humans; Climatic changes; Environmental geo-history | |
| Pedagogy; Didactics and special pedagogy: Didactics, Educational technology, Media Education, inclusive education |
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