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3Deep Learning Opacity, and the Ethical Accountability of AI Systems. A New PerspectiveIn Raffaela Giovagnoli & Robert Lowe (eds.), The Logic of Social Practices II, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 21-73. 2023.In this paper we analyse the conditions for attributing to AI autonomous systems the ontological status of “artificial moral agents”, in the context of the “distributed responsibility” between humans and machines in Machine Ethics (ME). In order to address the fundamental issue in ME of the unavoidable “opacity” of their decisions with ethical/legal relevance, we start from the neuroethical evidence in cognitive science. In humans, the “transparency” and then the “ethical accountability” of thei…Read more
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4Ontologia formale (edited book)Editrice APES. 2015.In questo volume sono raccolti gli scritti frutto della ricerca effettuata nell’ambito del Progetto: “Ontologia Formale e Ontologie: uno Strumento per il Dialogo Interdisciplinare e Interculturale”. Scopo del progetto è mostrare al pubblico intellettuale italiano, sia di estrazione scientifica che umanistica, le potenzialità dello strumento dell’ontologia in generale, e dell’ontologia formale in particolare, per il dialogo costruttivo interdisciplinare e interculturale. Dialogo interdisciplinare…Read more
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The Post-Modern Transcendental of Language in Science and PhilosophyIn Zlatan Delić (ed.), Epistemology and Transformation of Knowledge in Global Age, Intechopen. 2017.
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2(Un-)Certainty and (In-)Exactness: proceedings of the 1st CLE Colloquium for philosophy and formal sciences (edited book)Aracne editrice. 2018.
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16The Philosophy of Nature of the Natural Realism. The Operator Algebra from Physics to LogicPhilosophies 7 (6): 121. 2022.This contribution is an essay of formal philosophy—and more specifically of formal ontology and formal epistemology—applied, respectively, to the philosophy of nature and to the philosophy of sciences, interpreted the former as the ontology and the latter as the epistemology of the modern mathematical, natural, and artificial sciences, the theoretical computer science included. I present the formal philosophy in the framework of the category theory (CT) as an axiomatic metalanguage—in many sense…Read more
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20The Quantum Field Theory (QFT) Dual Paradigm in Fundamental Physics and the Semantic Information Content and Measure in Cognitive SciencesIn Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic & Raffaela Giovagnoli (eds.), Representation of Reality: Humans, Other Living Organism and Intelligent Machines, Springer. 2017.In this paper we explore the possibility of giving a justification of the “semantic information” content and measure, in the framework of the recent coalgebraic approach to quantum systems and quantum computation, extended to QFT systems. In QFT, indeed, any quantum system has to be considered as an “open” system, because it is always interacting with the background fluctuations of the quantum vacuum. Namely, the Hamiltonian in QFT always includes the quantum system and its inseparable thermal b…Read more
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39The Square of Opposition: A Cornerstone of Thought (edited book)Birkhäuser. 2016.This is a collection of new investigations and discoveries on the theory of opposition (square, hexagon, octagon, polyhedra of opposition) by the best specialists from all over the world. The papers range from historical considerations to new mathematical developments of the theory of opposition including applications to theology, theory of argumentation and metalogic.
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4The Square of Opposition: A Cornerstone of Thought (Studies in Universal Logic) (edited book)Birkhäuser. 2016.This is a collection of new investigations and discoveries on the theory of opposition by the best specialists from all over the world. The papers range from historical considerations to new mathematical developments of the theory of opposition including applications to theology, theory of argumentation and metalogic.
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Le radici del nichilismo: Una questione aperta tra metafisica cristiana e modernitàDivus Thomas 100 (3): 89-108. 1997.
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L'uso di modelli computazionali in psicofisiologia ed il principio gnoseologico di rappresentazioneEpistemologia 9 (1): 123. 1986.
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32Dualità', epigenesi, intenzionalità': Dal mente-corpo al persona-corpoDivus Thomas 115 (1): 29-89. 2012.
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22Intelligence and ReferenceIn Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Raffaela Giovagnoli (ed.), Computing Nature, . pp. 139--159. 2013.
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25Neural images and neural codingBehavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (2): 368-369. 1995.In Posner & Raichle's (1994) book, two essential and strictly related limitations of cognitive neurophysiology are not sufficiently enhanced: (1) The problem of “coding,” namely the capability of a natural brain to redefine its own “basic symbols” as a function of a changing environment; (2) the inadequacy of a Hebbian rule to reckon with complex computational problems such as those solved by real brains.
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36Info-computational Constructivism and Quantum Field TheoryConstructivist Foundations 9 (2): 242-244. 2014.Open peer commentary on the article “Info-computational Constructivism and Cognition” by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic. Upshot: Dodig-Crnkovic’s “info-computational constructivism” (IC), as an essential part of a constructivist approach, needs integration with the logical, mathematical and physical evidence coming from quantum field theory (QFT) as the fundamental physics of the emergence of “complex systems” in all realms of natural sciences
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Spazi, numeri e processi. La teoria tomistica dell'adaequatio e la questione dei fondamentiNuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 15 (1/4): 260-286. 1997.
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L'istanza analogica nelle scienze del cervello. Considerazioni filosoficheEpistemologia 9 (2): 233. 1986.
Gianfranco Basti
Pontifical Lateran University
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Pontifical Lateran UniversityProfessor
Rome, Lazio, Italy