Talks
To trust, or not to trust, that is the question (joint work with M. Petrolo). Workshop “Trustworthy AI – Conceptual challenges and applications”. Politecnico di Milano, 16/02/2024.
Explanation(s), Understanding and Trustworthy AI. 19th AISC Conference. Genova, 15/12/2023.
Affective artificial agents and the problem of transparency (joint work with M. Facchin). 19th AISC Conference. Genova, 16/12/2023.
The meta problem of artificial consciousness. 1st Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind. 02/12/2023.
The meta-problem of artificial consciousness. 9th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA 2023), Belgrade, 21/09/2023.
AI and risk: a philosophical analysis (joint work with D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). Triennial international conference of the Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS 2023). Urbino, 06/09/2023.
Trustworthy AI: a vexed (and yet pivotal) notion(joint work with M. Petrolo, D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. Vienna, 25/08/2023.
AI and risk: a philosophical analysis (joint work with D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). 4th Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science (LICPOS 2023). Lisbon, 12/07/2023.
Trustworthy AI: a pragmatic stance (joint work with M. Petrolo, D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). MBR023. Rome, 08/06/2023.
Keep trusting! A plea for the notion of Trustworthy AI (joint work with M. Petrolo, D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). Bias, Risk, and Opacity in AI: Second research meeting, ISTC-CNR Trento. Trento, 23/05/2023.
The meta-problem of artificial consciousness and moral status. SINe conference 2023. Pisa-Lucca, 11/05/2023.
Beyond reliability: values and Trustworthy AI (joint work with M. Petrolo, D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). 2023 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology. TU Delft, 20/04/2023.
The meta-problem of artificial consciousness (invited). 1st International Meeting on Robo-Ethics and Philosophy. Politecnico di Milano, 09/03/2023.
Consciousness Unexplained. 17th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. Noto, 14/12/2021.
Disentangling empirical and metaphysical issues in the science of consciousness. ConsciousBrainConcepts Workshop “The science of consciousness: obstacles to progress and strategies to overcome them”. University of Oslo (online), 02/12/2021.
Consciousness Unexplained. NETS meetings. IUSS Pavia, 29/09/2021.
A plea for metaphysical agnosticism in the science of consciousness. 14th Conference of the Italian Association for Analytic Philosophy. Noto, 24/09/2021.
Scientistic stances and physicalism in the philosophy of mind. 12th International Scientific Conference on Neuroethics. San Raffaele University (online), 14/05/2021.
Causal closure, synaptic transmission and sui generis mental properties. X Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. University of Madrid (online), 03/05/2021.
Physicalism and the burden of parsimony. NETS meetings. IUSS Pavia, 14/09/2020.
Physicalism and the burden of parsimony (invited). MetaScience project. University of Bristol (online), 07/07/2020.
Cleverly disguised mules and physical minds. Philosophy in Progress PG Conference. University of Nottingham, 09/01/2020.
Why methodological naturalism cannot vindicate physicalism about the mind. 16th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. Roma Tre University, 13/12/2019.
Muli abilmente camuffati e menti immateriali (invited). University of Bologna, 18/11/2019.
Why interlevel approaches to explanation in cognitive science presuppose a reductive metaphysics. Fourth Avant conference “Fragmentation of Cognition”. University of Porto, 24/10/2019.
Cleverly disguised mules and physical minds: the inductive argument for physicalism as a case of transmission failure. NETS meetings. IUSS Pavia, 10/09/2019.
Reducing mind while maintaining non-reductive psychological explanations: disentangling metaphysical and epistemological issues. Midterm Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. IMT Lucca, 22/05/2019.