Description: Dedicated to approaching classic themes in the theory of knowledge and to philosophical, methodological and historical reflection on science and language, this line covers the following segments:
a) Philosophy of Language, dedicated to the analysis of meaning and its epistemic and metaphysical developments, as well as to the pragmatic aspects of communication;
b) Philosophy of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, which investigates the explanatory models of conceptual genesis and the strategies of grounding in psychology and psychoanalysis;
c) Theory of Knowledge, seeks to investigate the philosophical reflections that have been made throughout the history of philosophy on the nature of knowledge, its sources, its limits, and above all, its validity and means of justification;
d) Philosophy of Science, investigates the nature of scientific knowledge, its foundations and implications; among the issues addressed are: genesis and justification of scientific theories; rationality and progress of science; scientific realism and anti-realism; scientific explanations; the interface of the philosophy of science with the history of science; conceptual and theoretical problems relating to the foundations of physical theories; social and ethical aspects of scientific activity; and finally,
e) History of the Philosophy of Nature, which is designed to investigate fundamental themes of historical reflection on the philosophy of nature, from Aristotle to the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, passing through the reception and transformation of Aristotelian thought in the Middle and Modern Ages.