Publications

1. Monographs

• Zanotti, G. (forthcoming). Intelligenza Artificiale: Rischi e incertezze.

2. Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

• Facchin, M., Zanotti, G. (2026). Making Emotional Transparency Transparent. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-026-10188-6 

• Bessa, R. J., Leyli-Abadi, M., Yagoubi, M., Boos, D., Borst, C., Castagna, A., ..., Zanotti, G. (2026). Toward a Holistic Framework for Human-AI Collaboration in Safety-Critical Systems. In E. Curry et al. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Data and Robotics: Foundations, Transformations and Future Directions. Cham: Springer, 343–402. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-10561-5_13 

• Gatti, N., Zanotti, G. (2025). When Algorithms Mirror Us: Bias, Limits and Possibilities of AI. In I. Bollati, N. Gatti, U. Tolino (Eds.), Not for Her: AI Revealing the Unseen. Shibboleth, 27–37.

• Fossa, F., Zanotti, G., Canali, S. (2025). Tra Etica ed Epistemologia: Alcune note critiche sul principio della spiegabilità in Intelligenza Artificiale. In L. Marinucci (Ed.), Spiegabilità e Intelligenza Artificiale: Prospettive tecnologiche, etiche e normative, Roma: CNR edizioni, 67–79. https://doi.org/10.48220/eticabioeticabiodiritto-2025-4 

• Zanotti, G. (2025). AI Systems Should be Trustworthy, Not Trusted. AI & Society, 41, 3401–3412. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02728-6 

• Mussi, M., Metelli, A. M., Restelli, M., Losapio, G., Bessa, R. J., Boos, D., ..., Zanotti, G. (2025). Human-AI Interaction in Safety-critical Network Infrastructures. iScience, 28(9), 113400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113400 

• Zanotti, G., Chiffi, D. (2025). Artificial Afterlives: Philosophical reflections on griefbots. In A. Sans Pinillos, V. Costa, J. Vallverdú (Eds.), Second Death: Experiences of death across technologies. Cham: Springer, 225–235. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98808-0_14

• Petrolo, M., Zanotti, G., Chiffi, D., Schiaffonati, V. (2024). Two Dogmas of Trustworthy AI. In E. Ippoliti, L. Magnani, S. Arfini (Eds.), Model-Based Reasoning, Abductive Cognition, Creativity: Inferences & Models in Science. Cham: Springer, 163–178. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69300-7_10 

• Zanotti, G., Chiffi, D., Schiaffonati, V. (2024). AI-related Risk and Uncertainty. In B. Steffen (Ed.), Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer, 284–292. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73741-1_17 

• Zanotti, G., Chiffi, D., Schiaffonati, V. (2024). AI-Related Risk: An Epistemological Approach. Philosophy & Technology, 37, 66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00755-7 

• Facchin, M., Zanotti, G. (2024). Affective Artificial Agents as Sui Generis Affective Artifacts. Topoi, 43(3), 771–781. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09998-z 

• Zanotti, G., Petrolo, M., Chiffi, D., Schiaffonati, V. (2024). Keep Trusting! A Plea for the Notion of Trustworthy AI. AI & Society, 39(6), 2691–2702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01789-9 

• Zanotti, G. (2023). Causal Closure, Synaptic Transmission, and Emergent Mental Properties. In J.M. Viejo and M. Sanjuán (Eds.), Life and Mind: New directions in the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. Cham: Springer, 49–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30304-3_4 

• Zanotti, G. (2023). Consciousness, Neuroscience, and Physicalism: Pessimism about optimistic induction. Acta Analytica, 38(2), 283–297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-022-00512-5 

• Zanotti, G. (2022). Tra metafisica e neuroscienze della coscienza. Sistemi Intelligenti, 34(2), 271–290. https://doi.org/10.1422/105040 [Finalist paper for the Girotto prize for the best paper AISC (Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences) 2021]

• Zanotti, G. (2021). Physicalism and the Burden of Parsimony. Synthese, 199(3–4), 11109–11132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03281-7 

• Zanotti, G. (2020). Sul perché l'argomento naturalista non può fornire ragioni a sostegno del fisicalismo. Sistemi Intelligenti, 32(3), 575–596. https://doi.org/10.1422/99077 [Finalist paper for the Girotto prize for the best paper AISC (Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences) 2019]

3. Editorial work

• Ongaro, M., Zanotti, G., Janda, P., Chiffi, D. (forthcoming). Philosophy of Risk: Beliefs, Values and Decisions. Topical collection for Synthese. https://link.springer.com/collections/efeahhigfb 

• Di Francesco, M., Facchin, M., Piredda, G., Zanotti, G. (2024.). The phenomenological turn in analytic philosophy of mind. Special issue of Argumenta. https://doi.org/10.14275/2465-2334/202418.int 

4. Others

• Larghi, S., Datteri, E., Zanotti, G., Facchin, M., Alfieri, I., Raffa, M., Bacaro, M. (2025). Mind (and) the Robot: On the Epistemology and Ethics of the Attribution of Mental States to Robots. In J. Seibt et al. (Eds.), Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods — Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2024, London: Sage, 650–654. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA241558 

• Zanotti, G. (2025). Fourth BRIO Meeting & Idea League Ethics Working Group Workshop. The Reasoner, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.54103/1757-0522/2025/1 

• Zanotti, G. (2024). Ascribing trustworthiness to AI systems. The Reasoner, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.54103/1757-0522/2024/2 

• Petrolo, M., Zanotti, G. (2022). Bias, Ethical AI, Explainability and the Role of Logic and Logic Programming. The Reasoner, 17(1), 6-7. 

• Zanotti, G. Review of Papineau, D. The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience. New York: OUP, 2021, pp. xi + 163. Forthcoming in Argumenta.

• Zanotti, G. (2022). Why physicalism? An assessment of the main arguments for physicalism about the mind. PhD thesis. University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia.