Luisa Damiano

Luisa Damiano (PhD) is Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the IULM University (Milan, Italy), and the coordinator of the Research Group on the Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial (RG-ESA). Her main research areas are: Epistemology of Complex Systems; Epistemology of the Cognitive Sciences; Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial. Since 2007, she has been working on these topics with scientific teams (Origins of Life Group, University of Rome Three, Rome, Italy, SynthCells EU Project; Adaptive Systems Research Group, Developmental Robotics Division, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom, Felix Growing EU Project and Aliz-é EU Project; Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, Empathy and Frontier Sciences JSPS Project and Artificial Empathy JSPS Project; currently: University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, and JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, SB-AI Project; Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, Artificial Empathy Project). From 2015 to 2021 she was Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Messina (Messina, Italy). Among her publications there are many articles, the books Unità in dialogo (Bruno Mondadori, 2009) and Living with robots (with Paul Dumouchel, Harvard University Press, 2017, originally published in French by Seuil, 2016, in Korean by HEEDAM, 2019, and in Italian by Raffaello Cortina, 2019; currently in publication in Chinese by Peking University Press) and several co-edited journal special issues (e.g., Artificial Empathy, International Journal of Social Robotics, with Paul Dumouchel and Hagen Lehmann, 2014; What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence (and vice versa), BioSystems, with Yutetsu Kuruma and Pasquale Stano, 2016; Synthetic Biology and Artificial Intelligence: Towards Cross-fertilization, Complex Systems, with Yutetsu Kuruma and Pasquale Stano, 2018). 

MAIN AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

Philosophy of Science and Technology:

 

- Complex Systems Theories, Methods and Epistemology;

 

- Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial, with a focus on the Synthetic Modelling of Life and Cognition, in particular in Cognitive, Developmental and Social Robotics, and in Synthetic Biology;

 

- Epistemology of the Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy of Mind, with a focus on Cognitive Extension, Minimal Cognition, Inter-subjective Cognition, Embodiment and Enaction;

 

- Philosophy of Biology, with a focus on Self-organization, Autopoiesis, Minimal Life, Origins of Life;

 

- Methods of Human-centric (Assistive) Technology Design, with a focus on Social Robot Design;

 

- Epistemology of (Social) Robotic Technology Design, with a focus on the contribution of Epistemology of Cognitive Sciences, Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial to the design of emerging robotic Technologies.

Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.

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Please, find below a selection.

Damiano, L. and Stano, P. [2020], “On the Life-likeness of Synthetic Cells”, in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Synthetic Bio, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00953/full

Damiano, L. [2020], "Mind, robots and mixed social ecologies. For an experimental epistemology of social robotics", in Intelligent Systems, XXXII, 1, pp. 27-39

Damiano, L. and Dumouchel, P. [2020], "Emotion in relation. Epistemological and ethical scaffolding for mixed human-robot social ecologies", in Humana.Mente, 13, 17, pp. 181-206

Stano, P. and Damiano, L. [2020], "Syntetická biologie a umělá inteligence: od R.U.R. k současným výzkumným směrům" ["Synthetic biology and artificial intelligence: from R.U.R. to contemporary research directions"], in J. Čeiková (Ed.), Robot 100. Sto ruzumů.[Robot 100. A hundred reasons], UCT Prague Press, Prague

Damiano, L. and Stano, P. [2018], "Synthetic Biology and Artificial Intelligence: Grounding a Cross- Disciplinary Approach to the Synthetic Exploration of (Embodied) Cognition", Complex Systems, 27, pp. 199-228

Damiano, L. and Dumouchel, P. [2018], "Anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Co-evolution," in Frontiers in Psychology, p. 1-9

Dumouchel, P. and Damiano, L. [2017], Living with robots, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, (french version: Vivre avec les robots Essai sur l'empathie artificielle, Paris: Seuil, 2016; Korean translation: Vivre avec les robots, Seoul: HEEDAM, 2019; Italian translation: Vivere con i robot. Saggio sull'empatia artificiale, tr. di L. Damiano, Milan: Raffaello Cortina, 2019; in Chinese translation, Peking University Press, under contract)

Damiano, L., Dumouchel, P. and Lehmann, H. [2014], "Towards Human-Robot Affective Co-evolution Overcoming Oppositions in Constructing Emotions and Empathy," in International Journal of Social Robotics, 7, pp. 7-18

Damiano, L. [2012], "Co-emergences in life and science: a double proposal for biological emergentism", in Synthese, 185, pp. 273-294

Bich, L. and Damiano, L. [2012], "Life, autonomy and cognition: an organizational approach to the definition of the universal properties of life", in Origins of Life and Evolution of Biosphere, pp. 389-397

Bich, L. and Damiano, L. [2012], "Rediscovering autopoiesis theory in the characterization of social systems". In Licata, I. (ed.), Systems, Emergence, Organizations. Complexity and Management, Rome-Messina: CoRiSco-EDAS, pp. 83-111

Damiano L. and Luisi P. L. [2010], "Towards an autopoietic redefinition of life", in Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, Volume 40, Issue 2, p. 145-149

Damiano, L. [2009], Unity in dialogue. A new style for knowledge, Milan: Bruno Mondadori

Bich, L. and Damiano, L. [2008], "Order in the nothing: Autopoiesis and the organizational characterization of the living, in Licata, I., Ammar, S. (eds.), Physics of Emergence and Organization, 4, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., pp. 339-369

Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.

COURSES 2021/2022

Bachelor of Science in Arts, Media, Cultural Events

- Philosophy of complexity

Master's Degree in Art, Valorisation and Market

- Philosophy of the Digital