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46Is consciousness just conscious behavior?International Journal of Machine Consciousness 3 (02): 353-360. 2011.
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43An externalist approach to creativity: discovery versus recombinationMind and Society 12 (1): 61-72. 2013.What is the goal of creativity? Is it just a symbolic reshuffling or a moment of semantic extension? Similar to the contrast between syntax and semantics, creativity has an internal and an external aspect. Contrary to the widespread view that emphasises the problem-solving role of creativity, here we consider whether creativity represents an authentic moment of ontological discovery and semantic openness like Schopenhauer and Picasso suggested. To address the semantic aspect of creativity, we ta…Read more
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Memoria: Fra Neurobiologia Identità EticaMimesis. 2010.Within a general approach that implies the closely related survey of neurosciences and philosophical thought, the essays collected in the volume develop two main lines of research. The first one, thanks to the contributions of scientists and psychologists , psychoanalysists and bioengineers , allows to fix the attention on the neurobiological, psychological, psychoanalytical and physical remembering. The second one, more specifically philosophical, is declined in three different approaches. the …Read more
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33The widespread use of brain imaging techniques encourages conceiving of neuroscience as the forthcoming “mindscience.” Perhaps surprisingly for many, this conclusion is still largely unwarranted. The present paper surveys various shortcomings of neuroscience as a putative “mindscience.” The analysis shows that the scope of mind (both cognitive and phenomenal) falls outside that of neuroscience. Of course, such a conclusion does not endorse any metaphysical or antiscientific stance as to the natu…Read more
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68Experiences are Objects. Towards a Mind-object Identity TheoryRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 7 (1): 16-36. 2016.: Traditional mind-body identity theories maintain that consciousness is identical with neural activity. Consider an alternative identity theory – namely, a mind-object identity theory of consciousness. I suggest to take into consideration whether one’s consciousness might be identical with the external object. The hypothesis is that, when I perceive a yellow banana, the thing that is one and the same with my consciousness of the yellow banana is the very yellow banana one can grab and eat, rath…Read more
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199 A Process-oriented View of QualiaIn Edmond Wright (ed.), The Case for Qualia, Mit Press. pp. 175. 2008.
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136Artificial ConsciousnessImprint Academic. 2007.And why is there a subjective component to experience?). It is easy to see that the separation between Weak and Strong Artificial Consciousness mirrors the separation between the easy problems and the hard problems of consciousness.
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135The spread mind. Is consciousness situated?"Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 30 (2): 55-78. 2011.If phenomenal experience is a physical phenomenon, it must occur at some spatial and temporal location. Can consciousness be situated in such a strong sense? Although the importance of embodiment and situatedness is often mentioned, most neuroscientists and philosophers alike consider phenomenal experience as an outcome of neural activity. In this paper, the question I would raise is whether the physical underpinnings of conscious experience may be identical with processes temporally an…Read more
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23Is neuroscience adequate as the forthcoming “mindscience”?Behavior and Philosophy 38 1-29. 2010.
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33Does functionalism really deal with the phenomenal side of experience?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5): 993-994. 2001.Sensory motor contingencies belong to a functionalistic framework. Functionalism does not explain why and how objective functional relations produce phenomenal experience. O'Regan & Noë (O&N) as well as other functionalists do not propose a new ontology that could support the first person subjective phenomenal side of experience.
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28A New Mind for a New AestheticsRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 67 (3). 2011.Embora a extensão da dependência entre teorias da estética e modelos da mente seja urna questão de aceso debate, é justo afirmar que as abordagens actuáis da consciência sugerem novas perspectivas sobre a natureza da experiência estética. As recentes descobertas da neurociência têm afetado a nossa forma de ver a estética e a arte. Todavia, enquanto é frequentemente sugerido que a neurociência vai, em breve, obter urna descrição completa da natureza da mente e, portanto, da experiência estética, …Read more
Riccardo Manzotti
IULM University
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IULM UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |