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University of Pavia

Prof. Lorenzo Magnani

"...morality is distributed in our technological world in a way that makes some scientific problems particularly relevant to ethics. [...] One solution, I believe, is to re-examine the respect we have developed for particular externalities and then use those things as a vehicle to return value to people." 
(L. Magnani, Morality in a Technological World: Knowledge as Duty)

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    news 27/12/2025
    SAPERE (Springer Book Series)

    Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE) publish new developments and advances in all the fields of applied philosophy, epistemology, and ethics.

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    Handbook of Abductive Cognition Editor in Chief Lorenzo Magnani

    L. Magnani (Editor in Chief) Handbook of Abductive Cognition Springer, 2023, 1946 pages (two volumes)

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  • eco-cognitive computationalism
    news 02/12/2025
    Eco-Cognitive Computationalism. Cognitive Domestication of Ignorant Entities

    This book mainly focuses on the widely distributed nature of computational tools, models, and methods, ultimately related to the current importance of computational machines as mediators of cognition.

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    news 02/12/2025
    Discoverability. The Urgent Need of an Ecology of Human Creativity

    The book analyses the concept of discoverability, and some current epistemological problems related to it, with a special attention to science. It shows that discoverability is closely related to the sustainability of human creativity in an “eco-cognitive

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    The Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity. An Essay on the Ecology of Cognition

    This book takes advantage of a new eco-cognitive model of abduction to emphasizes the distributed and embodied nature of scientific cognition.

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    Embodied, Extended, Ignorant Minds New Studies on the Nature of Not-Knowing

    This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies. Agnotology, the epistemology of ignorance, and, more generally, ignorance studies have grown to cover and explore different phenomena and subjects of research

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    Handbook of Model-Based Science

    The Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of model-based reasoning.

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    Philosophy and Cognitive Science – Western and Eastern Studies II

    The book shows how eastern and western perspectives and conceptions can be used to address recent topics laying at the crossroad between philosophy and cognitive science.

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    news 04/09/2025
    Understanding Violence

    Understanding Violence. The Intertwining of Morality, Religion and Violence: A Philosophical Stance. Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, Vol. 1.This volume sets out to give a philosophical “applied” account of violence

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    Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning

    Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning  explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of the last century, neglected topic in cognition.

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    news 28/04/2025
    Morality in a Technological World

    My book Morality in a Technological World. Knowledge as Duty (Cambridge University Press) is available on Amazon and other leading bookstores.

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  • MY BOOKS IN CHINESE
    news 28/03/2025
    MY BOOKS IN CHINESE

    Books Published in Chinese

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  • MY BOOKS, EDITED BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS IN ITALIAN
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    MY BOOKS, EDITED BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS IN ITALIAN

    Books, Edited Books and Special Issues of Journals Published in Italian

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News

Senza titolo
news
SAPERE (Springer Book Series)
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE) publish new developments and advances in all the fields of applied philosophy, epistemology, and ethics.
Read more
cover handbook abductive cognition
news
Handbook of Abductive Cognition Editor in Chief Lorenzo Magnani
L. Magnani (Editor in Chief) Handbook of Abductive Cognition Springer, 2023, 1946 pages (two volumes)
Read more
eco-cognitive computationalism
news
Eco-Cognitive Computationalism. Cognitive Domestication of Ignorant Entities
This book mainly focuses on the widely distributed nature of computational tools, models, and methods, ultimately related to the current importance of computational machines as mediators of cognition.
Read more
lorenzomagnani.unipv
news
Discoverability. The Urgent Need of an Ecology of Human Creativity
The book analyses the concept of discoverability, and some current epistemological problems related to it, with a special attention to science. It shows that discoverability is closely related to the sustainability of human creativity in an “eco-cognitive
Read more

Events

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