Publications

1. Articles and chapters

• 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, CNR edizioni, 67-79. https://doi.org/10.48220/eticabioeticabiodiritto-2025-4 

• Zanotti, G. (2025). AI systems should be trustworthy, not trusted. AI and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02728-6 

• 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. 

• 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. 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. 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 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00755-7

• Facchin, M., Zanotti, G. (2024). Affective artificial agents as sui generis affective artifacts. Topoi. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09998-z 

• Zanotti, G., Petrolo, M., Chiffi, D., Schiaffonati, V. (2023). Keep trusting! A plea for the notion of Trustworthy AI. AI and Society. 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30304-3_4

• 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 for Cognitive Science) 2021.

• Zanotti, G. (2022). Consciousness, Neuroscience, and Physicalism: Pessimism About Optimistic Induction. Acta Analytica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-022-00512-5.

• 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 for Cognitive Science) 2019.

2. 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 

3. Others

• 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.