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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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25An Alternative View of Conscious PerceptionJournal of Consciousness Studies 13 (6): 45-79. 2006.
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113Machine 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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39The computational stance is unfit for consciousnessInternational Journal of Machine Consciousness 4 (2): 401-420. 2012.
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13Intentional 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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12Brentano'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).
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75No time, no wholes: A temporal and causal-oriented approach to the ontology of wholes (review)Axiomathes 19 (2): 193-214. 2009.What distinguishes a whole from an arbitrary sum of elements? I suggest a temporal and causal oriented approach. I defend two connected claims. The former is that existence is, by every means, coextensive with being the cause of a causal process. The latter is that a whole is the cause of a causal process with a joint effect. Thus, a whole is something that takes place in time. The approach endorses an unambiguous version of Restricted Composition that suits most commonsensical intuitions about …Read more
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49Denying the content–vehicle distinction: a response to 'The New Mind Revisited'AI and Society 28 (4): 467-470. 2013.
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31An externalist approach to existential feelings: Different feelings or different objects?In Jörg Fingerhut & Sabine Marienberg (eds.), Feelings of Being Alive, De Gruyter. pp. 8--79. 2012.
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44AGI and Machine ConsciousnessIn Pei Wang & Ben Goertzel (eds.), Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence, Springer. pp. 263--282. 2012.
Riccardo Manzotti
IULM University
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IULM UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |