Riccardo Manzotti

Associate professor

Department of Business, Law, Economics and Consumption
Faculty of Communication

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Curriculum Vitae

CURRENT POSITION:

Professor of Theoretical Philosophy. Executive editor of Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness

WEBSITE: https://riccardomanzotti.com

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Riccardo Manzotti is a philosopher, psychologist, and AI expert and the author of The Spread Mind: Why Consciousness and the World Are One (ORBooks, NewYork, 2018) and of Dialogues on Consciouness (NY, 2018). He is professor of theoretical philosophy at the IULM University (Milan). He has been Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT (Boston).
He is executive editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, has published several books and many papers on the topic of consciousness, machine consciousness, perception, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, media, and philosophy of art.
His current research focuses on the issue of consciousness and the structure of reality: What is consciousness? Is there a separation between our experience of the world and the world? Does the present have a fixed time span? Can we design and build a conscious machine? What ethical questions do consciousness and technology raise in the 21st century?
His main research areas are philosophy of mind, consciousness, machine consciousness, consciousness, psychology of perception, psychology of art, media, philosophy of communication, media.

DISCIPLINARY GROUP:

Filosofia teoretica

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Publications

Manzotti, R. (2017), Consciousness and Object, John Benjamins: Amsterdam.
Manzotti, R. (2017), The Spread Mind, ORBooks: New York.
Manzotti, R. (2011) (a cura di), Situated Aesthetics, Imprint Academic: Thorverton.
Manzotti, R. e V. Tagliasco (2008), L'esperienza. Perché i neuroni non spiegano tutto. Codice: Milano.
Manzotti, R. e A. Chella (2007) (a cura di ). Artificial Consciousness. Imprint Academic: Thorverton.
Manzotti, R. e V. Tagliasco (2001), Coscienza e Realtà. Il Mulino: Bologna.
Manzotti, R. (2016). “Una teoria dell'identità mente-oggetto” in Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi.
Manzotti, R., (2016). “A Perception-Based Model of Complementary Afterimages” in SAGE Open, 12(1): 1-10
Manzotti R, Jeschke S. (2016), “A Causal Foundation for Consciousness in Biological and Artificial Agents” in Cognitive System research. 2016.
Manzotti, R. (2016). “No Evidence that Pain is a Painful Neural Process”, in Animal Sentience. An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling, 1(3),1-4.
Manzotti, R. (2016). “Experiences are Objects. Towards a Mind-object Identity Theory”, in Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 7(1), 16-36.
Manzotti, R., Moderato, P. (2014). “Intentional change, intrinsic motivations, and goal generation” in The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(4), 431–432.
Manzotti, R., Chella, A. (2014). “A causal account for consciousness” in Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 13(2), 1–25.
Lavazza, A., Manzotti, R. (2013). “An externalist approach to creativity” in Mind & Society, 12(1), 61–72.
Lavazza A, Manzotti R. (2013) “A New Mind for a New Aesthetics” in Revista Portuguesa De Filosofia. 67(3):501–24.
Manzotti R. (2012), “The Computational Stance Is Unfit for Consciousness” in International Journal of Machine Consciousness; 4(2):401–20.
Manzotti, R. and R. Pepperell (2012), “The New Mind: thinking beyond the head” in AI & Society., 24(1).
Manzotti, R., (2011), “The Spread Mind” in Teorema, 30(2): 55-78.
Manzotti, R. and P. Moderato, (2010), “Is Neuroscience the Forthcoming 'Mindscience'?” in Behaviour and Philosophy, 38, 1-28
Manzotti, R., (2010), “There are no Images (to Be Seen) or The Fallacy of the Intermediate Entity” in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 9(2): 59-66.
Manzotti, R., (2009), “No Time, No Wholes: A Temporal and Causal-Oriented Approach” in Axiomathes, 19: 193-214.
Chella, A. and R. Manzotti, (2009), “Machine Consciousness: A Manifesto for Robotics” in Journal of Machine Consciousness, 1(1): 33-51.
Manzotti, R., (2009), “La memoria è percezione del passato?” in Prometeo, 27(108): 76-85.
Manzotti, R., Buttazzo, G., (2008), “Artificial consciousness: Theoretical and practical issues” in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 44: 79-82.
Manzotti, R., (2008), “From Consciousness to Machine Consciousness” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, 82(1): 54.
Manzotti, R., (2008), “A Process-Oriented View of Qualia” in E. Wright (a cura di), The Case for Qualia, MIT Press: 175-190.
Manzotti, R., (2006), “An alternative process view of conscious perception” in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13(6): 45-79.
Manzotti, R., (2006), “Consciousness and existence as a process” in Mind and Matter, 4(1): 7-43.
Manzotti, R., Tagliasco, V., (2005), “From behaviour-based robots to motivations-based robots” in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 51(2-3): 175-190.
Manzotti, R., Tagliasco, V., (2004), “Rappresentazione ed esistenza” in Sistemi Intelligenti, XVI(1): 34-74.
Manzotti, R., Sandini, G., (2002), “What does isomorphism mean?” in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24.
Manzotti, R. et al., (2001), “Disparity estimation in log polar images” in Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 83(2): 97-117.