Books
8. Glenney, B., and Ferretti, G. (Under Contract). Molyneux's Problem in Action. Springer Briefs.
7. Ferretti, G. e Zipoli Caiani, S. (Under Contract). Conoscenza Pratica. (*Practical Knowledge). Editrice Il Mulino.
6. Ferretti, G. Schulte, J. P. and Wild, M. (Eds.). (2024). Philosophy of Plant Cognition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge.
5. Angelucci, A., Fano, V., Ferretti, G., Galli, G., Graziani, P., Tarozzi, G. (Eds.). (2024). Realism and Antirealism in Metaphysics, Science and Language. Franco Angeli Editore.
4. Ferretti, G. (2023a). Correre e Ultracorrere. (*Running and Ultrarunning). Editrice Il Mulino.
3. Ferretti, G. (2022). Presenza e Realtà. (*Presence and Reality). Mondadori Education.
2. Ferretti, G. and Glenney, B. (2020). Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy. Routledge.
1. Ferretti, G. e Zipoli Caiani, S. (2018a). Vedere e Agire. (*Seeing and Acting). Editrice Il Mulino.
Edited Journal Special Issues
2. Ferretti, G. and Glenney, B. (2024). Molyneux’s Question Today. (2024). Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
1. Ferretti, G. and Zipoli Caiani, S. (2021). Between Vision and Action, Special Issue, Synthese. Vol. 198, Supplement Issue 17, https://link.springer.com/journal/11229/volumes-and-issues/198-17/supplement.
Papers
2025
56. Ferretti, G., Boem, F., and Zipoli Caiani, S. (2025). Embodied Cognition, Endurance Running and Evolution. Biology and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-025-09983-3.
55. Ferretti, G. (2025). What Stereoblindness Teaches us about Visual Reality. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-025-10054-x.
2024
54. Ferretti, G. and Glenney, B. (2024). Molyneux’s Question Today. Introduction to the Special Issue. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 5. https://doi.org/10.33735/phimisci.2024.11947.
53. Ferretti, G. (2024d). Philosophical Implications of Derealization Disorder. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04808-4.
52. Ferretti, G. and Marchi, F. (2024). Trompe l’œil illusions: Pay (Visual) Attention! Argumenta. DOI 10.14275/2465-2334/20240.fer.
51. Degenaar, M., Lokhorst, G-J, Glenney, B. and Ferretti, G. (2024). Molyneux’s Problem. Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (Eds.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
50. Schulte, J. P., Ferretti, G., and Wild, M. (2024). The Philosophy of Plant Cognition: Introduction. In Ferretti, G. Schulte, J. P. and Wild, M. (Eds.). Philosophy of Plant Cognition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge.
49. Ferretti, G. (2024c). On Plant Affordances. In Ferretti, G. Schulte, J. P. and Wild, M. (Eds.). Philosophy of Plant Cognition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge.
48. Ferretti, G. (2024b). Understanding Reality and Presence in Dreams through Imagery. Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anae025.
47. Ferretti, G. and Zipoli Caiani, S. (2024). An All-Purpose Framework for Affordances. Reconciling the Behavioral and the Neuroscientific Stories. Synthese, Special Issue: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04646-4.
46. Angelucci, A.,Fano, V., Ferretti, G., Galli, G.. Graziani, P., Tarozzi, G. (2024). Introduction. In (Eds.) Angelucci, A., Fano, V., Ferretti, G., Galli, G., Graziani, P., Tarozzi, G. Realism and Antirealism in Metaphysics, Science and Language. Franco Angeli Editore, pp. 7-8. ISBN: 8835148340.
45. Ferretti, G. (2024a). Perspectives on Reality. In (Eds.) Angelucci, A., Fano, V., Ferretti, G., Galli, G., Graziani, P., Tarozzi, G. Realism and Antirealism in Metaphysics, Science and Language. Franco Angeli Editore, pp. 73-79. ISBN: 8835148340.
2023
44. Angelucci, A., Fano, V., Ferretti, G., Macrelli, R., and Tarozzi, G. (2023). Does Evolution Favor Accurate Perception? Argumenta, Special Issue, Epistemological Issues in the Manifest and the Scientific Image, 9(1), DOI 10.14275/2465-2334/202317.ang.
43. Ferretti, G. and Zipoli Caiani, S. (2023c). Habits, Motor Representations and Practical Modes of Presentation. In (Eds.) Giovagnoli, R. and Lowe, R. (Eds.), The Logic of Social Practices II, Springer Sapere, Cham, pp. 177-192. ISSN 2192-6255.
42. Ferretti, G. and Zipoli Caiani, S. (2023b). The Rationality and Flexibility of Motor Representations in Skilled Performance. Philosophia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-023-00693-2.
41. Ferretti, G. (2023b). For an Epistemology of Stereopsis. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-023-00711-y.
40. Ferretti, G. and Zipoli Caiani, S. (2023a). On Knowledge in Action. Theory & Psychology. DOI: 10.17.7/09593543231170854.
2021
39. Ferretti, G. (2021e). On Epistemology and Vision Science. In Calosi, C., Graziani, P., Petrini, D., and Tarozzi, G. (Eds.), Experience, Abstraction and the Scientific Image of the World. Festschrift for Vincenzo Fano on his 60th Birthday. Franco Angeli Editore, pp. 111-120.
38. Borghini, A. and Ferretti, G. (2021). Dip It Before You Eat It! On Recipes and the Architecture of a Dish, in Borghini, A. and Engisch, P. (Eds.), A Philosophy of Recipes: Making, Experiencing, and Valuing, Bloomsbury, London.
37. Ferretti, G. (2021d). Motoric Understanding and Aesthetic Appreciation. The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 2(1), 113-130, DOI 10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2021/01/007.
36. Ferretti, G. and Zipoli Caiani, S. (2021b). How Knowing-That and Knowing-How Interface in Action: The Intelligence of Motor Representations. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00395-9.
35. Angelucci, A., Fano, V., Ferretti, G., Macrelli, R., Tarozzi, G. (2021). Evolutionary Dynamics and Accurate Perception. Critical Realism as an Empirically Testable Hypothesis. Philosophia Scientiæ, 25(2), pp. 157-178.
34. Ferretti, G. (2021c). On the Content of Peripersonal Visual Experience. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-021-09733-2.
33. Ferretti, G. (2021b). Why the Pictorial needs the Motoric. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00381-1.
32. Boem, F., Ferretti, G. and Zipoli Caiani S. (2021). Out of our Skull, in our Skin: The Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis and the Extended Cognition Thesis. Biology & Philosophy, 36:14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09790-6.
31. Ferretti, G. (2021a). A Distinction Concerning Vision-for-Action and Affordance Perception. Consciousness and Cognition, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.103028.
30. Ferretti, G. and Zipoli Caiani, S. (2021a). Habitual Actions, Propositional Knowledge, Motor Representations and Intentionality. Topoi, DOI: 10.1007/s11245-020-09723-0.
2020
29. Ferretti, G. and Marchi, F. (2020b). Visual Attention in Pictorial Perception. Synthese, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02873-z.
28. Ferretti, G. (2020d). Action at First Sight. In Ferretti, G. and Glenney, B. (Eds.). Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy, Routledge, pp. 284-299.
27. Ferretti, G. and Glenney, B. (2020). General Introduction to Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy. In Ferretti, G. and Glenney, B. (Eds.). Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy, Routledge, pp. 1-27.
26. Ferretti, G. (2020c). Do Trompe l’oeils look right when viewed from the wrong place? The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 78(3), pp. 319-330. DOI: 10.1111/jaac.12750.
25. Ferretti, G. (2020b). Anti-Intellectualist Motor Knowledge, Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02750-9.
24. Ferretti, G. and Zipoli Caiani, S. (2020a). Can we Rationally Talk about Pictorial Action Possibilities? In Grimaldi, G. and Parise, M. (Eds.), Rational Animals. Seven Essays on Reason's Fields of Application, Special Issue of Isonomia Epistemologica, pp. 121- 148.
23. Ferretti, G. (2020a). Why Trompe l’oeils deceive our Visual Experience. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 78-1, pp. 33-42.
22. Ferretti, G. and Marchi, F. (2020a). Seeing Entities without Seeing N-Entities. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 27 (1-2), pp. 57-70.
2019
21. Ferretti G. and Zipoli Caiani S. (2019b). Between Vision and Action. Introduction to the Special Issue. Synthese, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02518-w.
20. Ferretti G. and Viola M. (2019). How Philosophical Reasoning and Neuroscientific Modeling Come Together. In: Nepomuceno-Fernández Á., Magnani L., Salguero-Lamillar F., Barés-Gómez C., Fontaine M. (eds) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. MBR 2018. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 49. Springer, Cham, pp. 173-190.
19. Ferretti G. and Zipoli Caiani S. (2019a). A Model for the Interlock Between Propositional and Motor Formats. In: Nepomuceno-Fernández Á., Magnani L., Salguero-Lamillar F., Barés-Gómez C., Fontaine M. (eds) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. MBR 2018. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 49. Springer, Cham, pp. 427-440.
18. Di Marco, S., Tosoni, A., Altomare E. C., Ferretti, G., Perrucci, M.G., Committeri, G. (2019). Walking-related locomotion is facilitated by the perception of distant targets in the extrapersonal space. Nature: Scientific Reports, 9: 9884, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46384-5.
17. Chinellato E., Ferretti G., Irving L. (2019). Affective Visuomotor Interaction: A Functional Model for Socially Competent Robot Grasping. In: Martinez-Hernandez U. et al. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11556. Springer, Cham, pp. 51-62.
16. Ferretti, G. (2019c). Visual Phenomenology versus Visuomotor Imagery: How Can we be Aware of Action Properties? Synthese, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02282-x.
15. Ferretti G. and Chinellato E. (2019). Can Our Robots Rely on an Emotionally Charged Vision-for-Action? An Embodied Model for Neurorobotics. In: Vallverdú J., Müller V. (eds) Blended Cognition, The Robotic Challenge. Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems, vol 12. Springer, Cham, pp. 99-126.
14. Ferretti, G. (2019b). Perceiving Surfaces (and What They Depict). In The Senses and the History of Philosophy, Edited by Glenney, B. and Silva, J.F., Routledge, pp. 308-322.
13. Ferretti, G. (2019a). Molyneux’s Puzzle: Philosophical, Biological and Experimental Aspects of an Open Problem. Aphex, Open Problems, 9.
2018
12. Ferretti, G. (2018b). The Neural Dynamics of Seeing-In. Erkenntnis, 84(6), 1285-1324. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-018-0060-2.
11. Ferretti, G. and Zipoli Caiani, S. (2018b). Solving the Interface Problem without Translation: the Same Format Thesis. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, DOI: 10.1111/papq.12243.
10. Ferretti, G. (2018a). The Nature of Pictorial Representations. Phenomenology and Mind, 14, pp. 136-144. DOI: 10.13128/Phe_Mi-23631.
2017
9. Ferretti, G. (2017c). Are Pictures Peculiar Objects of Perception? Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 3(3), pp. 372–393. DOI: 10.1017/apa.2017.28.
8. Ferretti, G. (2017b). Two Visual Systems in Molyneux Subjects. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 17(4), pp. 643-679. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-017-9533-z.
7. Ferretti, G. (2017a). Pictures, Emotions, and the Dorsal/Ventral account of Picture Perception. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 8(3), pp. 595-616. DOI: 10.1007/s13164-017-0330-y.
6. Zipoli Caiani, S. and Ferretti, G. (2017). Semantic and Pragmatic Integration in Vision for Action. Consciousness and Cognition, 48, pp. 40–54. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.10.009.
2016
5. Ferretti, G. (2016d). Visual Feeling of Presence. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. DOI: 10.1111/papq.12170.
4. Ferretti, G. (2016c). Through the Forest of Motor Representations. Consciousness and Cognition, 43, pp. 177-196. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.05.013.
3. Ferretti, G. (2016b). Neurophysiological States and Perceptual Representations: The case of Action Properties detected by the Ventro-Dorsal Visual Stream. In Magnani L. and Casadio C. (Eds.) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Vol. 27. Springer, Cham, pp. 179-203.
2. Ferretti, G. (2016a). Pictures, Action Properties and Motor Related Effects. Synthese, Special Issue: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy, 193(12), pp. 3787-3817. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1097-x.
1. Ferretti, G. and Alai, M. (2016). Enactivism, Representations and Canonical Neurons. Argumenta, 1 (2), pp. 195-217.
Articles In Italian
2024
5. Ferretti, G. e Chinellato, E. (2024). Emozioni in Azione nei Robot. La Sfida della Neurorobotica Incorporata. In (a cura di) Galletti, M. e Zipoli Caiani, S. (2024). Filosofia dell’Intelligenza Artificiale. Sfide Etiche e Teoriche. Il Mulino, pp.169-180. ISBN. 978-88-15-38737-0.
2020
4. Ferretti, G. e Zipoli Caiani, S. (2020b). Conoscenza e Abilità: sui Formati delle Rappresentazioni in Azione. (*Knowledge and Abilities: on the Formats of Representations in Action). Sistemi Intelligenti, 3, pp. 495-514. DOI: 10.1422/99074. (Candidate for the Prize ‘Best Paper AISC (Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences) 2019’).
2019
3. Ferretti, G. e Viola, M. (2019). Filosofia e Neuroscienze – Andata e Ritorno, Sistemi Intelligenti, 2, pp. 211-234, DOI: 10.1422/93570. (*Philosophy and Neuroscience – A Roundtrip). Sistemi Intelligenti, XXXI/1. Winner of the Prize ‘Best Paper AISC (Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences) 2017’.
2016
2. Ferretti, G. (2016). Enattivismo Sensomotorio (*Sensorimotor Enactivism). Aphex. Giornale Italiano di Filosofia Analitica, 13.
2015
1. Ferretti, G. (2015). Il Cognitivismo Classico (*Classical Cognitivism). Nuova Secondaria, pp. 27-31, 1 Settembre.
Proceedings
2018
3. Ferretti, G. (2018c). The Motoric Component of Pictorial Experience. In C. Chesi & G. Piredda (eds.). Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC). IUSS Pavia, 17-19 December 2018. ISBN: 9788890794384.
2016
2. Zipoli Caiani, S., and Ferretti, G. (2016). Is our Visual System a Modular Device? The Case of Vision for Action. Proceedings of the AISC (Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences) International Conference of Cognitive Sciences, University of Turin. “Mind the Gap: Brain, Cognition and Society – 13th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences”.
2014
1. Ferretti, G. (2014). Is Knowing-How reducible to Knowing-That? Cognitive Neuroscience Knows (the Irreducibility of Knowing) How. Visuomotor Skills before Knowledge and Motor Intentions to Φ. Proceedings of the AISC (Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences) International Conference of Cognitive Sciences, University of Rome 3.