Content of Learning Activity

The course takes as a common thread the question of the "norm", which it questions from different authors through the history of ideas, from ancient to contemporary philosophy. This is less of an inventory of everything that has been said on the concept of norm than to analyze how this notion raises major problems for different fields of thought, since epistemology - by the issues of the norm of truth or universality in Humanities - to the ethical and political - worked through the question of social norms, action norms and the relationship to the laws of the city - and through aesthetics - and the question of the norm of beauty or of what is considered a work of art.  
The challenge of the course, in relation to global cursus, is the following: to develop a properly philosophical questioning which enriches, by the shift in point of view that it operates, a more general reflection in Psychology. This interdisciplinary enrichment is achieved both through the transversal skills mobilized by the course (cf. Learning outcomes) and both through the question it deploys, that of the norm, also at the heart of central issues for Psychology and Humanities (whether we think of the norm of reason and knowledge, or the dialectic of the normal and the pathological, etc.). 

Required Learning Resources/Tools

Syllabus

Recommended Reading

Note de cours - Philosophie en rapport avec les sciences humaines - Martin Mees

Recommended Learning Resources/Tools

powerpoints + texts

Other Recommended Reading

Not applicable

Mode of delivery

• Face to face

Type of Teaching Activity/Activities

• Cours magistraux

Evaluations

The assessment methods of the Learning Activity (AA) are specified in the course description of the corresponding Educational Component (UE)