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    Philosophy, Cognition and Pragmatics (edited book)
    with Alessandro Capone and Roberto Graci
    Springer Nature Switzerland. 2024.
  • New Frontiers in Pragmalinguistic Studies (edited book)
    with Alessandro Capone and Roberto Graci
    Springer Nature. forthcoming.
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    Moderate Mindreading Priority
    In Antonino Pennisi & Alessandra Falzone (eds.), The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Performativity, Springer Verlag. pp. 103-113. 2019.
    According to the common sense view, self-consciousness is the climax of human cognition. This provides the ordinary feeling of being special thanks to the faculty of self-consciousness. But, we can doubt how much nature takes care of our satisfactory feeling of being self-conscious. What if self-consciousness has any top role in human cognition? In particular, is self-consciousness really prior to mindreading?, or the contrary? Call the first thesis “self-consciousness priority account” and the …Read more
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    Anti-anthropomorphism and Its Limits
    Frontiers in Psychology 9 398843. 2018.
    There is a diffuse sentiment that to anthropomorphize is a mild vice that people tend to do easily and pleasingly, but that an adult well educated person should avoid. In this paper it will be provided an elucidation of ``anthropomorphism'' in the field of common sense knowledge, the issue of animal rights, and about the use of humans as a model in the scientific explanation. It will be argued for a ``constructive anthropomorphism'', i.e., the idea that anthropomorphism is a natural attutude to …Read more
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    Deep learning and cognitive science
    Cognition 203 104365. 2020.
    In recent years, the family of algorithms collected under the term ``deep learning'' has revolutionized artificial intelligence, enabling machines to reach human-like performances in many complex cognitive tasks. Although deep learning models are grounded in the connectionist paradigm, their recent advances were basically developed with engineering goals in mind. Despite of their applied focus, deep learning models eventually seem fruitful for cognitive purposes. This can be thought as a kind of…Read more
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    Moral dilemmas in self-driving cars
    with Chiara Lucifora, Giorgio Mario Grasso, and Alessio Plebe
    Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 11 (2): 238-250. 2020.
    : Autonomous driving systems promise important changes for future of transport, primarily through the reduction of road accidents. However, ethical concerns, in particular, two central issues, will be key to their successful development. First, situations of risk that involve inevitable harm to passengers and/or bystanders, in which some individuals must be sacrificed for the benefit of others. Secondly, and identification responsible parties and liabilities in the event of an accident. Our work…Read more
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    Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Pragmatics
    with Valentina Cuccio, Gerard Steen, Yury Shtyrov, and Yan Huang
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
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    Context-dependence in human and animal communication
    Foundations of Science 7 (3): 341-362. 2002.
    The aim of this paper is to show that humanlanguage is context-dependent in a veryspecific way. In order to support this thesis,a detailed comparison is made between the waysin which verbal expressions depend on thecontext of occurrence and evaluation and animalcommunication systems. The comparisonhighlights a series of analogies anddifferences between human language and thecommunication systems of other animals. Myproposal is to use the term `indexicality' toindicate the characteristic way of u…Read more
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    The Psychologizing of the Psychological and the Return of Common Sense
    Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 7 (1): 117-120. 2016.
    : According to Tim Crane, his version of psychologism is not based on the familiar opposition between conceptual analysis and empirical science. His point is not simply to consider phenomenological and empirical data in the science of the mind. Challenging the idea that investigation of the mind has to be understood “as an autonomous investigation solely into the concepts embodied in our psychological discourse”, Crane tries to argue for a more realistic picture of the mental. His rejection of “…Read more
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    J.G. Fichte’s Essay on the Origin of Language
    Fichte-Studien 19 223-229. 2002.
    The recent Italian translation of the writings on language of J.G. Fichte draws attention to a chapter in German classical philosophy which so far has not aroused great interest. The volume brings together four texts: 1) Von der Sprachfähigkeit und dem Ursprung der Sprache, 2) Über den Ursprung der Sprache, 3) Von der Sprachfähigkeit, 4) Über den Ursprung der Sprache überhaupt. The first of these four texts is the most important: it is the only work by Fichte thematically devoted to the problem …Read more
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    J.G. Fichte’s Essay on the Origin of Language
    Fichte-Studien 19 223-229. 2002.
    The recent Italian translation of the writings on language of J.G. Fichte draws attention to a chapter in German classical philosophy which so far has not aroused great interest. The volume brings together four texts: 1) Von der Sprachfähigkeit und dem Ursprung der Sprache, 2) Über den Ursprung der Sprache, 3) Von der Sprachfähigkeit, 4) Über den Ursprung der Sprache überhaupt. The first of these four texts is the most important: it is the only work by Fichte thematically devoted to the problem …Read more
  • Congegni di calcolo e mani intorpidite
    Discipline Filosofiche 21 (1). 2011.