Gianfranco Basti

Pontifical Lateran University
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    Deep Learning Opacity, and the Ethical Accountability of AI Systems. A New Perspective
    with Giuseppe Vitiello
    In 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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    Ontologia formale (edited book)
    with Shahid Mobeen
    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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    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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    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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    The Square of Opposition: A Cornerstone of Thought (edited book)
    with Jean-Yves Béziau
    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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    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.
  • Risposta dell'autore
    Aquinas 35 (1): 157. 1992.
  • Le radici del nichilismo: Una questione aperta tra metafisica cristiana e modernità
    with E. Severino
    Divus Thomas 100 (3): 89-108. 1997.
  • Rapporti scienza-fede: novita e problemi aperti
    Aquinas 41 (3): 483-514. 1998.
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    Intelligence and Reference
    In Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Raffaela Giovagnoli (ed.), Computing Nature, . pp. 139--159. 2013.
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    Neural images and neural coding
    with Antonio L. Perrone
    Behavioral 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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    Info-computational Constructivism and Quantum Field Theory
    Constructivist 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
  • Metafisica, metalogica e nuove prospettive per la filosofia
    Divus Thomas 102 (3): 13-52. 1999.
  • Fisica moderna, Metafisica e Mistero Eucaristico
    Aquinas 41 (2): 241-284. 1998.
  • Spazi, numeri e processi. La teoria tomistica dell'adaequatio e la questione dei fondamenti
    with Antonio Perrone
    Nuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 15 (1/4): 260-286. 1997.
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    Analogia e autoreferenza (edited book)
    with Claudio A. Testi
    Marietti. 2004.