Michele Farisco
Researcher at Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences; Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB)
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 61 92
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 75 05
- E-mail:
- michele.farisco@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Box 564, Husargatan 3, Uppsala
- Postal address:
- Box 564
751 22 UPPSALA
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Biography
I am an Italian Philosopher interested in theoretical and practical investigation at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience. I hold a degree in Philosophy with a dissertation on German Philosophical Anthropology (Neue Anthropologie), a Master degree in Biolaw with a dissertation on the relationship between Neuroscience and Law, a PhD in Ethics and Anthropology with a dissertation on Posthuman Philosophy. I am married and I have a wonderful little doughter : )
Publications
Recent publications
- Preliminaries to artificial consciousness (2025)
- Assessing the commensurability of theories of consciousness (2024)
- The ethical implications of indicators of consciousness in artificial systems (2024)
- The Ethics in the Management of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness (2024)
- Neuroéthique et diversité culturelle (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Preliminaries to artificial consciousness (2025)
- Assessing the commensurability of theories of consciousness (2024)
- The ethical implications of indicators of consciousness in artificial systems (2024)
- The spontaneous brain activity as a possible common ground between different theoretical frameworks (2024)
- A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI (2024)
- Cognitive decline related to chronic kidney disease as an exclusion factor from kidney transplantation (2024)
- Is artificial consciousness achievable? (2024)
- International survey on the implementation of the European and American guidelines on disorders of consciousness (2024)
- Simultaneous invasive and non-invasive recordings in humans (2024)
- Neuroethics and AI ethics (2024)
- The Ethical Spectrum of Consciousness (2023)
- About the compatibility between the perturbational complexity index and the global neuronal workspace theory of consciousness (2023)
- Developing Capabilities for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) (2023)
- On the Contribution of Neuroethics to the Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
- Indicators and criteria of consciousness (2022)
- American and European Guidelines on Disorders of Consciousness (2022)
- The need for a multi-disciplinary reflection about frailty and cognitive impairment in chronic kidney disease (2022)
- What names for covert awareness? (2022)
- From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design (2021)
- Towards Establishing Criteria for the Ethical Analysisof Artificial Intelligence (2020)
- Anthropomorphism in AI (2020)
- Of Ethical Frameworks and Neuroethics in Big Neuroscience Projects (2020)
- Realigning the Neural Paradigm for Death (2019)
- Indicators and Criteria of Consciousness in Animals and Intelligent Machines (2019)
- The Human Brain Project (2019)
- The Need for a Conceptual Expansion of Neuroethics (2019)
- Neuroethics and Philosophy in Responsible Research and Innovation (2019)
- Ritorno alla Physis (2018)
- Drug addiction: from neuroscience to ethics (2018)
- Large-scale brain simulation and disorders of consciousness (2018)
- Neuroethics: A Conceptual Approach (2018)
- The ethical relevance of the unconscious (2017)
- The Computational Shift in Neuroscience: A Multifaceted Neuroethical Analysis (2017)
- The Intrinsic Activity of the Brain and Its Relation to Levels and Disorders of Consciousness (2017)
- Can Neuroscience contribute to practical ethics? (2017)
- The relevance of neuroscience for conceptualizing human nature (2016)
- Big Science, Brain Simulation and Neuroethics (2016)
- What Are Some of the ELSI Challenges of International Collaborations Involving Biobanks, Global Sample Collection, and Genomic Data Sharing and How Should They Be Addressed? (2015)
- “Cerebral Communication” With Patients With Disorders of Consciousness. (2015)
- Keeping the human: neuroethics and the conciliation of dissonant values in the 21st century (2015)
- In Need of Meta-Scientific Experts? (2014)
- Clinicians’ attitudes towards patients with disorders of consciousness (2014)
- Biomedical research involving patients with disorders of consciousness (2014)
- Codici, linee guida e commentari di etica della ricerca: la questione della qualità (2014)
- Misdiagnosis as an ethical and scientific challenge (2014)
- On the Stand (2014)
- The Ethical Pain (2013)
- The Impact of Contemporary Neurotechnology on Diagnosing and Treating Patients with Disorders of Consciousness (2013)
- The Impact of Neuroscience and Genetics on the Law: A Recent Italian Case (2012)
- Medical Responsibility and Clinical Guidelines (2012)
- Informed Consent for Cord Blood Donation (2011)
- Neuro-bio-diritto: tra imputabilità e negazione di responsabilità. (2009)
Books
- Neuroéthique et diversité culturelle (2024)
- Neuroethics and Cultural Diversity (2023)
- Brain, consciousness and disorders of consciousness at the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy (2019)
- Filosofía de las Neurociencias. (2018)
- Neurotechnology and Direct Brain Communication (2016)
- Filosofia delle neuroscienze (2012)
- Ancora uomo (2011)
Chapters
- The Ethics in the Management of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness (2024)
- The EU Regulation of Generative AI: What Can We Learn from the Controversy Between the Italian Data Protection Authority and OpenAI (2024)
- Theoretical Framing of Neuroethics: The Need for a Conceptual Approach (2017)
- Neurotechnology–mediated communication (2016)
- Externalization of Consciousness (2015)
- Ethical Frameworks and Comparative Effectiveness Research (2015)
- The Posthuman Condition (2013)
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