The Course is divided into three paths and aims to train students to acquire specific theoretical and methodological skills for the design and implementation of qualified research activities. This will also allow students to define and analyze the relationships between specific issues and other fields of philosophical research, as well as those of other disciplines, both in the scientific and humanistic fields. Its objective is therefore to provide a path of specialization that ensures highly specific skills in the diverse range of knowledge and expertise. These skills, however, do not confine research to a narrow specialized horizon, but rather enable students to grasp its relationships with other disciplines and methodologies and, on this basis, enable them to promote and develop fruitful interaction between them. These skills will therefore be primarily focused on identifying and developing transversal or multidisciplinary themes, even across the component path.
The offered training aims to meet the need for transversal skills across diverse research fields, providing conceptual and methodological tools for a critical and interdisciplinary approach to problems. The program, while primarily preparing students for highly qualified research, can facilitate placements in organizations that address complex phenomena, human resources management, new technologies, and the design and evaluation of interventions for the development of individual and collective potential. The program’s highly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature enables the training of professionals capable of engaging in dialogue between even very distant professional fields: the skills developed lend themselves to the broadest possible application and implementation in various cultural, social, communication, information, and educational contexts.
The skills acquired lead to employment opportunities at universities, public, and private institutions, in theoretical and applied research on cultural planning, information processing and knowledge communication, and intervention design in educational, clinical, and community settings, as well as in the inclusion of diversity.
Paths
- Philosophy and History of Concepts
This section addresses issues and methodologies of theoretical research, with reference to models of rationality rooted in tradition. It also analyzes the processes of preservation and transmission of knowledge through the circulation of ideas, in the interplay between philosophical doctrines, scientific theories, artistic and cultural experiences, and social and political practices. - Logic and Epistemology
This section focuses on issues related to logic, the foundations, and formal analysis of the deductive, natural, and human sciences. Issues related to artificial intelligence, information theory, and the communication of scientific content are also considered. - Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences
This section addresses issues and methodologies of pedagogy in its historical and theoretical-foundational development, of teaching and educational research, and of social, developmental, and clinical psychology across the life cycle. It measures and evaluates the developmental trajectories of typical and atypical mental processes (motivation, attachment and intersubjectivity, metarepresentation, theory of mind, language), promoting training in the inclusion of diversity in educational and community contexts.
Headquarters
Campus Sa Duchessa, Facoltà di Studi Umanistici
via Is Mirrionis 1, Cagliari 09123
Teaching activities take place in spaces designated by the organizers and indicated in the course offerings. A dedicated classroom, “Aula Dottorandi” (Doctoral Students’ Room), is also available, equipped with workstations, Wi-Fi internet connection, a large screen for conferences, and a sound system.
Administration
Notices
- Blended Research Summer School (BRSS) 2026 – deadline 30/01/2026
[in France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Czech Republic]
News
February/May 2026, Doctoral Course: “Public Speaking per la ricerca” (taught only in Italian and in person)
17/2/2026: “Perception-Based Mindreading”
Aula Loi, Campus Sa Duchessa, Corpo Centrale, via Is Mirrionis 1, Cagliari, 15:00 to 17:00.
Seminar by Visiting Professor Joulia Smortchkova (Université de Grenoble),
in-person and also online, at the following MS Teams LINK.
January to March 2026, PhD course: “Introduction to algebraic logic“
Duration: 16 hours (8 classes). The course will be held in person. Please first contact Prof. Nicolò Zamperlin (n.zamperlin@gmail.com) to join it.
Prerequisites: Proficiency in the metatheory of classical propositional logic. Basic notions
of algebra (order, lattice) and universal algebra (variety, quasivariety, class operator).
Summary: The course is a quick introduction to the theory of algebraizability of Blok and Pigozzi. Through the study of the first chapters of Font’s handbook on abstract algebraic logic we will explore the necessary notions for any further investigation of the modern approach to algebraic logic. The goal of the course is to provide students which the minimal tools to access to the current literature about abstract algebraic logic. We will review the basic notions (consequence relations and closure operators) that precisely specify the definition of logic we will be working with and we will adapt these notions to classes of algebras. We will then move to the core of the theory of algebraizability, introducing the fundamentals (algebraic semantics, Lindenbaum-Tarski process, definition of algebraizability), exploring equivalence results (syntactic characterization, Leibniz congruence and isomorphism theorem), concluding with a glimpse to the semantics of matrices (logical matrix, Leibniz-reduced model).
Scheduled meetings:
- January
- 14th, 15:00 to 17:00, Aula 10
- 22nd, 10:00 to 12:00, Aula 10
- 28th, 10:00 to 12:00, Aula 9
- February
- 3rd, 10:00 to 12:00, Aula 9
- 10th, 10:00 to 12:00, Aula 10
- 17th, 10:00 to 12:00, Aula 9
- 25th, 10:00 to 12.00, Aula 9
- March
- 4th, (time and room to be defined)