This course aims to offer students the conceptual tools for understanding the main currents of Contemporary Philosophy. Given the variety of trends in the last 150 years, the syllabus reflects a choice between the most representative of them. Five deserve special mention for the impact and for the recognition they still enjoy: neokantianism, phenomenology, logical positivism and analytic philosophy, Marxism, the philosophies of existence. The syllabus shows how each of these trends is characterized by the choice of some themes and by its way of making philosophy.

Since it is not possible to exhaust the diversity of these approaches, students are expected to acquire the following skills:
1. An understanding of the historical and philosophical circumstances that governed their emergence.
2. A critical stance regarding the methodological assumptions that determine their philosophical style.
3. An ability to analyze their most important texts.
4. An acquaintance with the main bibliography.