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.
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