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9Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin (edited book)Imprint Academic. 2011.This book focuses on externalist approaches to art. It is the first fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009, where leading scholars in the emerging field of psychology of art compared their different approaches using a neutral language and discussing freely their goals. The event threw up common grounds for future research activities. First, there is a considerable interest in using cognitive and neural inspired techniques to help art historians, museum curators, art archiving, art p…Read more
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4From artificial intelligence to artificial consciousnessIn Antonio Chella & Riccardo Manzotti (eds.), Artificial Consciousness, Imprint Academic. pp. 174-190. 2007.
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68A process oriented view of conscious perceptionJournal of Consciousness Studies 13 (6): 7-41. 2006.I present a view of conscious perception that supposes a processual unity between the activity in the brain and the perceived event in the external world. I use the rainbow to provide a first example, and subsequently extend the same rationale to more complex examples such as perception of objects, faces and movements. I use a process-based approach as an explanation of ordinary perception and other variants, such as illusions, memory, dreams and mental imagery. This approach provides new insigh…Read more
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111Artificial Intelligence and ConsciousnessIn Anthony Chella & Ricardo Manzotti (eds.), AI and Consciousness: Theoretical Foundations and Current Approaches, Aaai Press, Merlo Park, Ca. 2007.
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68What does “isomorphism between conscious representations and the structure of the world” mean?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (3): 346-347. 2002.Perruchet & Vinter's provocative article challenges a series of interesting issues, yet the concept of isomorphism is troublesome for a series of reasons: (1) isomorphism entails some sort of dualism; (2) isomorphism does not entail that a piece of the world is a representation; and (3) it is extremely difficult to provide an explanation about the nature of the relation of isomorphism.
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Libertà nella naturaPhilosophical News 1. 2010.The debate as to the nature of free will focused on two options: either free willruns afoul of the natural order or it is somehow compatible withsome kind of complex and articulated causal process . Both alternatives are not satisfying for a series of well known reasons. Yet, such a discussion is based on a mechanistic view of the natural world assuming that natural phenomena are reducible to local phenomena. In this paper, I will briefly summarize the recent approaches in philosophy of mind and…Read more
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26Yet we experience qualities. Thus qualities are an empirical fact. Even hard-core neuroscientists like Cristoph Koch have acknowledged it: “the provisional approach I take. . .is to consider first person experiences as brute facts of life and seek to explain them.” (Koch 2004: 7). But since objective knowledge of the world is independent of qualities, the world is supposed to be devoid of qualities. Qualities are supposed to emerge out of the subject – whatever the subject is
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26An Alternative View of Conscious PerceptionJournal of Consciousness Studies 13 (6): 45-79. 2006.
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118Machine consciousness: A manifesto for roboticsInternational Journal of Machine Consciousness 1 (1): 33-51. 2009.Machine consciousness is not only a technological challenge, but a new way to approach scientific and theoretical issues which have not yet received a satisfactory solution from AI and robotics. We outline the foundations and the objectives of machine consciousness from the standpoint of building a conscious robot.
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25The computational stance is unfit for consciousnessInternational Journal of Machine Consciousness 4 (2): 401-420. 2012.
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14Intentional change, intrinsic motivations, and goal generationBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (4): 431-432. 2014.Wilson et al. draw our attention to the problem of a science of intentional change. We stress the connection between their approach and existing paradigms for learning and goal generation that have been developed in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and psychology. These paradigms outline the structural principles of a domain-general and teleologically open agent.
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7Brentano's Immanent Realism and Beyond (review)Mind and Matter 4 (1): 115-119. 2006.Review of Albertazzi, L. (2006): 'ImmanentRealism.An Introduction to Brentano'. Springer, Netherlands. ISBN 1-402-04201-9 (Euro 139.-; hbk).
Riccardo Manzotti
IULM University
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IULM UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |