Master’s Degree in Applied Philosophical Sciences (LM-78)

The Course of Studies in Applied Philosophical Sciences aims to train graduates in philosophy prepared on the new frontiers of philosophical studies and interdisciplinary contaminations present in the contemporary research scene, in which philosophy has found its speculative contribution consolidated rather than re-dimensioned, finding new vitality while maintaining its traditional identity. The course of study offers specific preparation in the traditional and new application areas of philosophy within this interdisciplinary scenario, with particular attention to the interaction that exists today between philosophy, psychology and neuroscience within the paradigm of postclassical cognitive sciences. The course leaves much room, however, for those applied philosophies that have always characterized this speculative tradition but have even more strongly developed and established themselves in the contemporary era especially since the twentieth century. So alongside the great traditions of theoretical and moral philosophy and those of political philosophy and law, the master’s degree will deepen, with advanced courses and declensions of disciplines different from the bachelor’s degree, the philosophy of language, philosophy of science and epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive processes, and will also give space to the evolution of speculation in the contexts of medicine and economic thought to show how strong is the philosophical need for models and theoretical frameworks in the contexts of the development of the human sciences. In this way, the course of study concretely reflects a broader need for professionalization of the philosophy graduate capable of responding to the needs of contemporary society in the grip of knowledge fragmentation and allows for the rediscovery in philosophy of the Ariadne’s thread and the historical, genetic and rational connection between the various specific domains of application of the models and research methods generated within the tradition of Western thought and the various sciences that have emerged from this tradition generating very specialized knowledge.

• Master’s Degree in Applied Philosophy
• Professional Profile
• Occupational opportunities in Applied Philosophy
• Formative Objectives Master’s Degree Program in Applied Philosophy
• Final Examination

The Master’s Degree in Applied Philosophy Sciences online program is the best solution for all students, making it possible for those who are unable to attend a traditional university because they are far from home or for professional reasons to obtain this university degree.

Through Unicusano’s e-learning platform, it will be possible to follow the lectures of the online Master’s Degree in Applied Philosophy Sciences, in telematic mode. It is possible to study on computer media from the comfort of home, in your own time, and then take the exams at the local exam centre. Thanks to the quality of its teachings and locations throughout Italy, Unicusano is today the best choice for those who wish to graduate with an Applied Philosophy Sciences online.

Professional profile and expected occupational and professional opportunities for Philosophy graduates

Human resource management services officer

function in a business setting:

responsibilities in the search, selection and management of employees; activities for the integration of professional figures within companies and public and private institutions; activities for the training and updating of employees.

skills associated with the function:

use of language and communication skills; identification of staff competencies and roles; interpersonal empathy and team coordination skills; ability to use computer and web technologies; inclination to continual learning and updating of content and strategies.

Employment outlets:

Local authorities and public administration – Public and private companies – Foundations – Museums – Libraries – Archives – Superintendence – Entrepreneurship

Text writer and editor

function in a work context:

Finding and updating information including through the use of information technology and the web; ability to verify sources and the authenticity of news; content development and text editing activities; organization of text from the point of view of editorial format and syntactic and lexical approach to the text itself; interpersonal skills to converse with intellectuals and experts who draft texts or edit them from the point of view of scientific editing

In particular, the cultural and critical-methodological training of the master’s degree student in Applied Philosophical Sciences makes him or her capable of both specialized interdisciplinary in-depth study and the elaboration of this in-depth study within mass communication contexts that require the diffusion of content. The master’s degree graduate possesses an autonomy and responsibility, both in terms of competence and professionalism, that makes him capable of finalizing his knowledge for tasks required by public and private entities and is available for further training and professionalization that career and opportunities will present to him in his future work.

skills associated with the function:

ability to write correctly and effectively; skill in the use of computer and graphics programs; willingness to learn technologically up-to-date programs; ability to coordinate in the work team; ability to select and verify information; ability to engage in scientifically aware dialogue with scholars and experts.

employment outlets:

Publishing houses; Multimedia publishing; Editing of journals, including scientific and thematic journals; Editing of newspapers; Press offices of corporations and companies; Public and private entities related to the production and/or organization of cultural events.

Official/consultant at cultural institutions

function in a work context:

coordination, organization and conception of socio-cultural events and projects and promotion and communication campaigns; coordination of the working team involved in the organization of cultural events and projects; selection, filing and cataloguing of documentation and organization of information relevant to the management of cultural projects; setting up and management of exhibitions, expositions, promotion and communication campaigns for selected or broad audiences; skills in the use of old and new media; organizations of cultural and educational and educational training activities; takes care of the implementation of information and training activities referring to topical issues even for non-specialist audiences by collaborating in the selection and definition of educational and popular material.

In particular, the cultural and critical-methodological training of the master’s degree graduate in Applied Philosophical Sciences makes him capable of both specialized interdisciplinary in-depth study and the elaboration of this in-depth study within mass communication contexts that require the dissemination of content. The master’s degree graduate possesses autonomy and responsibility, both in terms of competence and professionalism, which makes him or her capable of finalizing his or her knowledge for tasks required by public and private agencies, and is open to further training and professionalization that career and opportunities will present him or her in his or her future work.

skills associated with the function:

ability to write correctly and effectively; ability to use computer and graphics programs; willingness to learn technologically up-to-date programs; ability to coordinate in work team; ability to select and verify information; ability to engage in scientifically informed dialogue with scholars and experts

employment outlets:

– libraries – museums – cultural institutions and associations – local authorities – foundations

The master’s course in Applied Philosophical Sciences prepares for the profession of (ISTAT codes):

– Profession: PHILOSOPHER (2.5.3.4.4.)

Knowledge required for access

The University’s Study Regulations have among their primary objectives both to enable students to pursue the university course of study within the time stipulated by the legal term and to enable graduate students to be able to practice their chosen profession in the shortest possible time.

In order to achieve these objectives, it is also necessary that the initial knowledge of students enrolling at the University be as stipulated in the individual Teaching Regulations of the Courses of Study.

In this regard, in the case of coming from a Bachelor’s degree class other than L 5 and that does not guarantee direct access to the LM-78 Master’s Degree Course, at the time of the application for enrolment, the possession of specific credits earned in the following scientific disciplinary areas will be ascertained: M-fil/01 – 18 credits M-fil/02 – 9 credits M-fil/03 – 9 credits M-fil/04 – 9 credits M-fil/05 – 9 credits M-fil/06 – 9 credits

In the case of not possessing all the required credits, the applicant for enrolment must carry out a curricular integration, up to the completion of the required credits in addition to the performance of a non-binding admission test.

Verification of successful integration allows admission to the training path of the Master’s Degree Course, subject to verification of the adequacy of personal preparation.

For admission to the Master’s Degree Course, there is a test of English language proficiency, which must be at least B1 level. Admission procedures are specified in the articulation of the Teaching Regulations of the LM-78 Master’s Degree.

Specific educational objectives of the Master’s Degree in Applied Philosophical Sciences and description of the educational pathway

The educational course of the Master’s Degree in Applied Philosophical Sciences provides in the first year an in-depth study of the philosophical disciplines in their most applied versions and specifically in the areas of cognitive and emotional processes, Neuroethics, Neurolaw, and language to then allow the student in the following year to deepen the areas of aesthetics, philosophy of mind, and psychology.

Graduates in the Master of Applied Philosophy degree program acquire:

• a critical and deep knowledge of the philosophical tradition and an ability to establish connections between determinations of thought and historical periods;
• a critical and deep knowledge of the new frontiers of philosophical studies and the interdisciplinary contaminations present in the contemporary research landscape in which philosophy has made a consolidated speculative contribution especially in the theoretical, ethical-applied, historical-scientific, linguistic and psychological-cognitive fields;
• a specific preparation on traditional and new applied philosophies within an interdisciplinary scenario with particular reference to the interaction that exists today between philosophy, psychology and neuroscience within the paradigm of postclassical cognitive sciences and in particular the philosophy of cognitive processes, neuro-ethics, neuro-law;
• hermeneutic and historical-critical analysis skills supported by adequate awareness of issues related to the interpretation of texts and historiographic methodology from the perspective of philosophy applied to the various domains of language, science, cognition;
• a confident and thorough ability to use the theoretical – and methodological tools that allow autonomy of research, reflection and understanding in the domains that affect human beings in the inner side of their psyche and consciousness and in the outer side of their interaction relationship with the natural and social environment;
• a developed analytical and logical-argumentative competence in relation to the various forms of knowledge and applied areas of philosophy in various fields including in particular those of the philosophy of cognitive processes, neuroethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, aesthetics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law.
• a deep knowledge of theoretical and methodological tools in the field of philosophy studies and history of the humanities and social sciences and the natural, physical and mathematical sciences;
• a use of the Italian language appropriate to the production of scientific texts proper to the discipline.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and comprehension skills

The course of study enables the acquisition of deep and specialized knowledge and comprehension skills in the various theoretical, moral, aesthetic, cognitive, epistemological and linguistic fields and in the various applied fields of cognitive sciences, the study of mind and consciousness, general and social psychology with its debts to philosophical reflection, as well as the fields of communication, politics and law. These areas are explored in light of the avant-garde and innovative perspectives of philosophical thought in dialogue and interaction with other sciences. It enables students to increase their ability to read and comprehend texts (including in the original language and with the use of appropriate bibliographical tools) through the appropriation of an increasingly scientific and specialized vocabulary and an application of argumentative models and chains for the analysis of problems internal and external to the more properly philosophical speculative elaboration. To these aims are addressed the basic and characterizing educational activities that articulate the theoretical-cognitive-linguistic area in which the classical themes and problems of philosophy are updated and deepened through the new reworkings present in the debate of the cognitive sciences and in the interaction between philosophy, psychology and neuroscience where two of the main turning points that have characterized philosophy since the twentieth century have converged, namely the linguistic and the mental. The focus is also on the most recent scenarios in the moral and political-legal area where the research frontiers of neuroethics and neurolaw emerge, without forgetting the classical problems of applied ethics and bioethics and legal theory. In this way, the course of studies combines the classical historical roots of Western thought with applied areas that have become increasingly current and are still in great ferment.

Added to these are the area devoted to science, which cuts across many of the areas already mentioned but has its specific training place in the disciplines of philosophy of science.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

The graduate in Applied Philosophical Sciences will be able to apply the knowledge and skills indicated above both in defining problems pertinent to his or her training, and in generating models of interpretation and elaboration of argumentation appropriate to the context of research and application of knowledge in which he or she will be working, and finally in identifying solutions to those problems and paths of reasoning, pertinent precisely through the applicative models he or she has come into possession of in the course of his or her studies. In this perspective, the graduate will have benefited from a congruent number of disciplinary teachings capable of providing him or her with the theoretical models, the appropriate problematization and the search for coherent and effective solutions and paths of reasoning. The preparation of the final paper for the degree, also characterized by an active relationship with the lecturer-reporter, and the various moments of verification during the attendance of the course of study certainly contribute to this maturation.

Such knowledge and skills will be attained through attendance and passing of the planned activities

Verification of the achievement of learning outcomes is mainly through oral and/or written examinations and in itinere (or through specific seminar moments that the lecturers may activate) as well as through the administration of tests prepared by the lecturer of each discipline in order to induce the student to a guided verification of his or her learning ability.

Making judgment

The graduate in Applied Philosophical Sciences will be able to express adequate autonomy of judgment in questioning the various theoretical models and methods of philosophy in order to interpret a wide variety of applied contexts and elements useful for the determination of problems pertinent to his or her field of study and the broader socio-cultural context in which he or she will work. Supplementary seminar activities of the frontal courses, the one and the other delivered through the virtual classroom, will support the progressive acquisition of critical autonomy, of which evidence must be given in the setting and conduct of the final exam.

Verification of the acquisition and level of autonomy will take place through

– the administration, progressive and continuous during the lectures and other activities carried out in the virtual classroom, of texts to be interpreted critically, motivating the reason for one’s choices;

– the intermediate tests carried out as part of the individual teachings;

– the final test (examination) of each individual teaching.

Learning skills

The graduate student in Applied Philosophy Sciences will accrue learning skills of two different orders: those related to the knowledge acquired in the course of attending the course of study and which have specific repercussions in the applied areas of philosophy that have been proposed for study; those related to the ability to use the knowledge learned for further training processes in subsequent cycles and in the contexts in which the graduate will find himself operating in his professional paths on the basis of both the models and interpretative addresses acquired both with respect to his own field of study and the ability to use in a n autonomous and appropriate way basic bibliographic and computer sources and tools for research and scientific updating The skills acquired will be evaluated through the ability to solve problems posed by heterogeneous texts administered in the course of lectures and exercises conducted in the virtual classroom, in itinere tests, where provided, and final exams.

Final Examination

The degree in Applied Philosophical Sciences is awarded upon passing a final examination that involves the preparation of a written paper evaluated by a special commission discussed by the student before the aforementioned commission. The paper consists of the analysis of a theoretical or applied topic of philosophy either from a more historical perspective and commentary on the reference texts of the philosophical landscape, or from a more theoretical perspective of comparisons of models and methods with regard to the exploration of a well-defined philosophical domain or problem that may also concern the applied areas of philosophy proposed and analysed in the course of study.