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STOQ III Program at PUL

The STOQ Program in the graduate study program

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  • Before all, we recall that all the STOQ study and research activities at PUL continue to be supervised by the, the STOQ Scientific Committee (SSC) of the Pontifical Lateran University, under the direct responsibility of the Rector, Bishop Rino Fisichella, who established SSC on November 8th 2004.

  • The Members of the SSC are:
    Prof. GIANFRANCO BASTI, Director of SSC
    Prof. IGNAZIO SANNA, Pro-Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University
    Prof. ANTONIO LIVI, Dean of the Philosophy Faculty
    Prof. PIERO CODA, of the Faculty of Theology
    Dr. ANTONIO LUIGI PERRONE, Secretary of SSC.

  • The study and teaching activities of the STOQ III Program will follow essentially the scheme already established during the STOQ I-II Programs at PUL, namely to offer a series of fundamental courses — given by PUL professors — and of intensive courses given generally by invited  professors — and related Workshops, on a biennial basis, to integrate in the Science-Religion direction the graduate study programs, in the Faculty of Philosophy (specialization on “Logic and Epistemology”), and in the Faculty of Theology (specialization on “Fundamental Theology: Religion Sciences”).

  • These courses are organized, during the two years according to the two main Thematic Areas of:
  1. Physics, Cosmology and Theology.
  2. Science and Ontology of the Intelligent Life.

 

Extension of STOQ to the undergraduate study program

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  • Another main novelty of the ongoing Bologna Process, is to adequate the number of years necessary for earning the BA in philosophy, from the actual two years, to the three years required by the EU regulations.

  • This means in perspective that the seminarians will follow only the first two years of the undergraduate program, as a propaedeutic philosophical study program to the Theological Studies, without earning the BA degree in philosophy.

  • When this further reform will be effective during the next three years, this means that we can insert in the undergraduate program also courses on Science-Religion, common also to the undergraduate program of the Faculty of Theology. For the moment, the Science-Religion topics has become an integral part of the course Philosophy of Religion, completely re-projected for this aim.

  • On the other side, this reform means in perspective that the complete undergraduate study program, with the final BA degree, will be followed essentially by lay students, as well as by those religious people who have to earn also the MA (and the PhD) in philosophy, because destined to teaching and researching in this field in their Church service.

  • All this open new perspectives for the continuation of the STOQ Program at Lateran, namely for the STOQ III Program.
    In fact, according to the new, approved study program, some courses, directly related with the STOQ Program will become, during the next three years, an integral part also of the undergraduate study program of the Philosophy Faculty, starting from the Academic Year 2006/7.

  • Of course, these teachings continue to be an integral, proper part of the graduate program of STOQ III, in “Logic and Epistemology”, as they were for the STOQ I and II programs.

  • More specifically, some entirely new characterizing courses are added to the undergraduate study program (already previewed over three years at PUL), strictly related with the Science-Philosophy relationship.

  • Of course, in view of the fact that the first two years of the undergraduate program will serve as propaedeutic course for the future Theology students, the new program inserted as much as possible the new courses into these years, starting the Academic Year 2006/7,   i.e.:
  1. A biennial course of symbolic logic  (classic and mathematical for the first year; modal and intensional for the second year)
  2. A second course of anthropology one of which — at the first year — will be devoted to deepen the systematic relationship between the philosophy of human person and the neurological and cognitive sciences.
  3. A second course of ethics at the second year strictly related with  bio-ethical, anthropological and ecological problems.
  4. A biennial course of history of science over the first two years of the undergraduate course.
  5. A complete redefinition of the course Philosophy of Religion, of which one part is devoted to the relationship between Science and Religion, and specifically between the notions of scientific truth and religious truth.
  6. In the third year for the BA, effective from the Academic Year 2008/9, a completely new course of epistemology of natural and human sciences, will be instituted, in addition to the course of philosophy of nature and science moved from the first to the second year of the program.
  7. Finally, there will be the possibility for the student of the third years to choose, as optional (cognate)courses, some of the science courses (Elements of Physics, Elements of Calculus, as well as the intensive courses on Cosmology, Neurobiology and Cognitive Sciences) given in the graduate program on “Logic and Epistemology” and already inserted in the STOQ Program.
  • In this way, also the students who will not choose the graduate program on “Logic and Epistemology” will be allowed to follow some of them, namely: Elements of Physics, Elements of Calculus, as well as the intensive courses on Physical Cosmology, Neurobiology and Cognitive Sciences.
     
  • Effectively, also now many undergraduate students (overall those who already have a scientific curriculum) follow some of the STOQ intensive courses as guest students. In this way, these disciplines could be inserted organically in their Academic curriculum.

 

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