Teaching Workshop: Advanced Philosophical Workshop 6

This workshop aims to provide students with philosophical tools to identify and oppose problematic discursive devices, such as insinuations, generalizations, code words, slurs and other derogatory labels. Its main goal is twofold: on the one hand, we will investigate the communicative features and the potential social impact of problematic discursive devices; on the other hand, we will discuss strategies to mitigate their harmful effects. The workshop helps students to build transferable skills that are key to a number of professional profiles, including writer and text editor, publicist, and communication manager.

This workshop helps students to build the following skills:

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
To critically analyze, discuss, and compare philosophical views.
To critically assess sources of information and the reliability of data.

Independent judgment:
To think through complex philosophical views.
To take a position on a certain philosophical issue and develop arguments in its favor.
To collect, correctly interpret, and appropriately use data to make independent, informed, and responsible judgments.

Communication skills:
To efficiently present the results of one's own research, and do so by using information technology when appropriate.
To dialogue in a constructive way with experts from other disciplines to identify and solve complex problems.
To disseminate knowledge and pass on acquired skills to non-specialized audiences.

Learning skills:
To study in an independent way.
To independently and appropriately use sources and basic bibliographic/information tools for philosophical research and scientific updating.