Marcello Frixione HP


drawing by Lillo D'Agostino	marcello frixione

Full professor of philosophy of language at the Department of Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy


address: Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione Università di Salerno via Ponte Don Melillo I-84084 Fisciano (Salerno) Italy telephone (office,voice): +39-089-962221 telephone (office,fax): +39-089-963013 HP: http://www.dif.unige.it/epi/hp/frixione/ e-mail: mailto:frix@dist.unige.it.	CV Teaching Publications


Short CV - March 1986. Degree in Philosophy at the University of Genova. - July 1993. PhD (dottorato) in Philosophy (Philosophy of Science) at the University of Genova. - November 1997. Researcher in Computer Science at the Dept. of Communication Sciences, University of Salerno - December 2002. Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Dept. of Communication Sciences, University of Salerno - October 2007, Full Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Dept. of Communication Sciences, University of Salerno full CV in Italian Research interests: Cognitive Sciences Artificial Intelligence Philosophy of Language and of Mind Cognitive and Philosophical Theories of Natural Language Meaning Methods for Knowledge Representation Hybrid Models, Models and Theories of Visual Perception Memberships: AIIA - Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale SIFA - Società Italiana di FilosofiaAnalitica SILFS - Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze AISC - Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive I am a member of the editorial board of Networks, an on line journal in philosophy of artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences, and of the scientific committee of 2R - Rivista di Recensioni Filosofiche. I am a member of the governing board of AISC - Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive*. Some of my research activity has been carried out in collaboration with: the Epistemological Section of Department of Philosophyof the University of Genova the Laboratorium ofthe Department of Communication, Computerand System Sciences (DIST) of the University of Genova the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Department of Computer Engineering (DINFO) of the University of Palermo and the Centro di Studio sulle Reti di Elaboratori of the National Research Council(CERE-CNR) of Palermo top of the page

Some teaching materials (in Italian) Courses (in Italian) Course of Philosophy of Language for the degree in Communication Sciences at the University of Salerno academic year 2008/2009 academic year 2007/2008 academic year 2006/2007 academic year 2005/2006 academic year 2004/2005 academic year 2003/2004 academic year 2002/2003 Course of Logic for the degree in Communication Sciences at the University of Salerno academic year 2009/2010 academic year 2008/2009 academic year 2007/2008 academic year 2006/2007 academic year 2005/2006 academic year 2004/2005 academic year 2003/2004 academic year 2002/2003 academic year 2001/2002 Course of Logic of Natural and Artificial Languages for the degree in Communication Sciences at the University of Salerno academic year 2009/2010 academic year 2008/2009 Course of Philosophy of Language and of Science for the degree in Communication Sciences at the University of Salerno (with prof. Roberto Miraglia) academic year 2009/2010 Course of Formal Logic for the degree in Philosophy at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele - Milano academic year 2009/2010 academic year 2008/2009 academic year 2007/2008 Course of Artificial Intelligence for the degree in Philosophy at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele - Milano academic year 2006/2007 academic year 2005/2006 academic year 2004/2005 top of the page

Some Publications (the full list of my publications can be found in my CV) Books: Marcello Frixione (2007). Come ragioniamo. Laterza, Roma-Bari Marcello Frixione and Dario Palladino (2004). Funzioni, macchine, algoritmi. Introduzione alla teoria della computabilità. Carocci, Roma Marcello Frixione (1994). Logica, significato e intelligenza artificiale. Franco Angeli, Milano Some papers: M. Frixione (2007). Do Concepts exist? A Naturalistic Point of View, in C. Penco, M. Beaney, M. Vignolo (eds.), Explaining the Mental. Naturalist and Non-Naturalist Approaches to Mental Acts and Processes, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. R. Cordeschi, M. Frixione (2007). Computationalism under attack, in M. Marraffa, M. De Caro e F. Ferretti (eds.), Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 37-49. M. Frixione (2003). Filosofia delle scienze cognitive, in Filosofie delle scienze, a cura di Nicla Vassallo, Torino, Einaudi. M. Frixione (2001). Rappresentazione della conoscenza, in (E. Burattini and R. Cordeschi, eds.), Intelligenza artificiale. Manuale per le discipline della comunicazione, Roma, Carocci. M. Frixione, G. Vercelli, R. Zaccaria (2001). Diagrammatic reasoning for planning and intelligent control. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), USA. M. Frixione (2001). Tractable competence. Minds and Machines,Vol.11,No. 3, pp. 379-397, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.. A. Chella, M. Frixione, S. Gaglio (2001). Interpreting symbols on conceptual spaces: The case of dynamic scenarios. Proc. AAAI Fall Symposium on Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data in Single and Multiple Robot Systems, November 2nd-4th, 2001, North Falmouth, Massachusetts. A. Chella, M. Frixione, S. Gaglio (2000). Undertsanding dynamic scenes.Artificial Intelligence, 123(1-2), October 2000, pp. 89-132, Elsevier, Amsterdam. A. Chella, M. Frixione, S. Gaglio (2000). Visual knowledge representation of moving scenes. Journal of Intelligent Systems, vol. 10 no. 4,pp.377-404, Freund Publishing House Ltd., Tel Aviv - London. M. Frixione (1999). Chomsky su naturalismo e riferimento, in D. Marconi (ed.), Naturalismo e Naturalizzazione, Editore Mercurio, Vercelli. A. Chella, M. Frixione, S. Gaglio (1998). Conceptual spaces for computer vision representations. In Spinning Ideas. Electronic Essays Dedicated to Peter Gärdenfors on His Fiftieth Birthday. M. Frixione, (1998). Modelli cognitivi, competenza, trattabilità. In F. Castellani, L. Montecucco (eds.), Normatività logica eragionamento di senso comune, Il Mulino, Bologna. M. Frixione, G. Vercelli, R. Zaccaria (1998). Diagrammatic reasoning about actions using artificial potential fields, Proc. Formalizing Reasoning with Visual and Diagrammatic Representations, AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Orlando, Florida, October 23-25, 1998. A. Chella, M. Frixione, S. Gaglio (1998). An architecture for autonomous agents exploiting conceptual representations, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, Elsevier Science. vol. 25, n. 3-4, december 1998,pp. 231-240. A. Chella, M. Frixione, S. Gaglio (1997). A cognitive architecture for artificial vision. Artificial Intelligence Journal, Elsevier, Amsterdam,89, pp. 73-111. M. Frixione (1996). Scienze cognitive e semantica naturalizzata. In C.Penco, G. Sarbia (eds.), Alle radici della filosofia analitica, Erga Edizioni,Genova. M. Frixione (1996). Computational logics and the philosophy of language: The problem of lexical meaning in formal semantics. Mathware & SoftComputing, Barcelona, Spain, vol. III, n. 1-2, pp. 249-260. M. Frixione, G. Tamburrini (1996). Conflitti di Competenza. Sistemi intelligenti, VIII(3), pp. 375-402. M. Frixione (1994). Intelligenza artificiale e semantica: il problema degli atteggiamenti proposizionali. Atti del Congresso Annuale dell'Associazione Italiana Calcolo Automatico, Palermo, Settembre 1994, vol. I, pp. 425-437. Some talks "On the possibility of a naturalistic account of reference". Workshop Trends in Italian Philosophy of Science, Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, Boston, September 10th and 11th, 2007. "Computationalism through Levels" (with R. Cordeschi), workshop Natural Processes and Models of Computation, Bologna, June 16-18, 2005. "Do concepts exist?", conference Mental processes: representing and inferring, Università di Genova, October 19-21, 2005. "'Linguistic' vs. 'non-linguistic' representations in the cognitive sciences", 3rd Italo-German Analytic Philosophy Colloquium , Florence:November 29th - December 1st, 2001. "Concepts and referential skills", 3rd Italian-French Colloquium on Analytic Philosophy, Vercelli, Italy,March 23rd-25th, 2000. "Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Vision" (with S. Gaglio and A.Chella), Subsymbolic Computation in Artificial Intelligence - 4th Course of the International School on Neural Nets "E.R. Caianiello", Erice, Sicily, October 24th-31st,1999. Discusssant of the paper "Reasoning without Meaning" by Marco Colombetti at the meeting Reasoning: The Logical and the Psychological Perspectives,Padua, Italy, May 22-23th, 1999. Talk on conceptual spaces in artificial vision (with A. Chella), Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS), Lund,Sweden, August 1994. "Naturalismo in semantica e tipi naturali psicologici", invited talk at the conference Naturalizzazione e naturalismo, Pisa, Italy, December15-17th,1997. "Conoscenza proposizionale e scienze cognitive", II Encuentro Hispano-Italiano de Filosofia del Lenguaje, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, June22-24, 1995. "Spazi concettuali e interpretazione di scene visive", IRST, Trento, Italy,July 20th, 1995 "Symbolic and Diagrammatic Knowledge for Representing Actions", Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS), Lund, Sweden, August 1994. Mathematics Schoolbooks: Dario Palladino, Stefano Scotto, Marcello Frixione (2007). Orizzonti della matematica. Casa Editrice Principato, Milano Dario Palladino, Stefano Scotto, Marcello Frixione (2003). Pigreco. Casa Editrice Principato, Milano Dario Palladino, Stefano Scotto, Marcello Frixione (2000). Matematica. Casa Editrice Principato, Milano (I am author of the sections on computer science) Co-authors of my papers are: AntonioChella, Roberto Cordeschi, SalvatoreGaglio, DarioPalladino, Pino Spinelli, GuglielmoTamburrini, Gianni Vercelli, RenatoZaccaria PDF files can be read with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can get free Acrobat Reader here. top of the page


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