LUISA DAMIANO
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science
University of Messina

Luisa Damiano is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Messina (Italy), where she coordinates the international Research Group on Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial (RG-ESA).

Her main research fields are: epistemology of the sciences of complex systems, epistemology of the cognitive sciences and philosophy of mind, and epistemology of the sciences of the artificial, with a focus on social robotics. In the latter field, she is developing research axes aimed at strengthening the contribution of philosophical research to the design of social and assistive robots.

The hypothesis guiding her work is that the sustainability of the spread of social robots critically depends on our interdisciplinary commitment to conceive, design, and use them as tools for self-knowledge, social connection, and self-development. Regarding the theme of her research on social robots, she has written several articles and a book (Living with robots, with P. Dumouchel, Harvard University Press, 2017, originally published in French by Le Seuil, 2016, and recently translated into Korean by HEEDAM, and into Italian by Cortina.).