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

Selene Arfini is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pavia, currently working on a project entitled “Ignorance in the perspective of the ecology of cognition: cognitive niches, the extended mind, and ignorance-based reasoning”. Her current work involves the foundation of a cognitively oriented epistemology of ignorance, with reference to the extended mind theory, cognitive niches construction studies, and a naturalized perspective on logic. She has established herself as an authority on the topic of ignorance in relation to cognition, recently publishing Ignorant Cognition – A Philosophical Investigation of the Cognitive Features of Not-Knowing , Springer (2019) and editing a Synthese Topical Collection on “ Knowing the Unknown: Philosophical Perspective on Ignorance ” (2020). 

Lorenzo Magnani is a philosopher, epistemologist, and cognitive scientist, professor at the University of Pavia, Italy, and director of its Computational Philosophy Laboratory. His book Abduction, Reason, and Science (2001) has become a well-respected work in the field of research on human cognition. The book Morality in a Technological World has been published by Cambridge University Press (2007). A bductive Cognition has been published by Springer in 2009 together with the more recent Understanding Violence , 2011. A new monograph that completes his rich studies on abductive cognition has come out in 2017, The Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity , together with the Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science (edited with Tommaso Bertolotti). He is the co-editor of the Special Issue for Synthese entitled K nowing the Unknown: Philosophical Perspectives on Ignorance .