PROFILE

Marco Giunti graduated in Philosophy at the University of Florence (Italy); he earned his Ph.D. at the Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

He is now Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Dipartimento di Filosofia e Teoria delle Scienze Umane and is a member of the Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Università di Cagliari, Italy.  He was assistant instructor at Indiana University from 1985 to 1990.  From 1992 to 2001 he was Professor of Philosophy and History in the state school system of the county of Florence, Italy.

His biographical profile was published in Who'sWho in the World 18th Edition 2001.

He is a member of Società Filosofica Italiana (Italian Philosophical Society), Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze (Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science), American Philosophical Association, Philosophy of Science Association, and Cognitive Science Society.

He published the following essays:

1. (1983) Giunti, Marco.  Popper e Lakatos: due diverse giustificazioni del falsificazionismo [Popper and Lakatos: two different justifications of falsificationism].  In Dimensioni, 28-29, pp. 128-156.
2. (1988) Giunti, Marco.  Hattiangadi's theory of scientific problems and the structure of standard epistemologies.  In The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 39, pp. 421-439.
3. (1995) Giunti, Marco.  Dynamical models of cognition.  In Port, Robert and Tim van Gelder (eds.), Mind as motion: Explorations in the dynamics of cognition, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, pp. 549-571.
4. (1996) Giunti, Marco.  Beyond computationalism.  In Cottrell, Garrison W. (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, Mahwah NJ, pp. 71-75.
5. (1998) Giunti, Marco.  Is computationalism the hard core of cognitive science?  In Abrusci, Michele et al. (eds.), Prospettive della logica e della filosofia della scienza . Atti del convegno triennale SILFS, Roma, 3-5 gennaio 1996, Pubblicazioni della SILFS, Edizioni ETS, Pisa, pp. 255-267.
6. (1998a) Giunti, Marco.  Dinamica e cognizione: aspetti di una ricerca [Dynamics and cognition: Aspects of a research].  In Bellone, Enrico and Giovanni Boniolo (eds.), Storia e Filosofia della scienza : Un possibile scenario italiano. Atti del convegno storia e filosofia delle scienze: lo stato delle ricerche italiane di punta, Padova, 28-30 maggio 1997, Milano, pp. 89-98.
7. (2004) Giunti, Marco.  Gli zombie non possono esserci.  In L&PS - Logic and Philosophy of Science: An Electronic Journal, vol. 2, n. 1, pp. 1-41.
8. (2004a) Giunti, Marco.  Zombies cannot be there (English version of "Gli zombie non possono esserci").  In L&PS - Logic and Philosophy of Science: An Electronic Journal, vol. 2, n. 1, pp. 1-41.
9. (2005) Giunti, Marco.  Dal simulazionismo al paradigma galileiano [From simulationism to the Galilean paradigm].  In Atti del XIX Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, sez. di Psicologia Sperimentale, Cagliari, 18-20 settembre 2005, Cagliari, CD-ROM.
10. (2005a) Giunti, Marco.  Emulation, Reduction and Emergence in Dynamical Systems.  In Proceedings of the 6th Systems Science European Congress, Paris, September 19-22, 2005, Paris, CD-ROM.
11. (2006) Giunti, Marco.  Is being computational an intrinsic property of a dynamical system?  In Minati Gianfranco, Pessa Eliano and Mario Abram (eds.), Systemics of emergence: Research and development, Springer, New York, pp. 683-694.
12. (2007) Giunti, Marco and Roberto Giuntini. Macchine, calcolo e pensiero [Machines, Calculation, and Thought].  In Mancini, Stefano (ed.), Sguardi sulla scienza dal giardino dei pensieri, Mimesis, Milano, pp. 39-67.
13. (2009) Giunti, Marco.  Bidimensional Turing machines as Galilean models of human computation.  In Minati Gianfranco, Abram Mario and Eliano Pessa (eds.), Processes of emergence of systems and systemic properties: Towards a general theory of emergence, World Scientific, Hackensack NJ – London – Singapore, pp. 383-406.
14. (2010) Giunti, Marco.  Reduction in dynamical systems.  In D'Agostino Marcello, Giorello Giulio, Laudisa Federico, Pievani Telmo and Corrado Sinigaglia (eds), SILFS New essays in logic and philosophy of science, College Publications, London, pp. 677-694.  ISBN 978-1-84890-003-5.
15. (2010a) Giunti, Marco.  Panorama e prospettive dell'approccio dinamico in scienza cognitiva [An overview of the dynamical approach to cognitive science and its prospects].  In L&PS - Logic and Philosophy of Science: An Electronic Journal, vol. 8, n. 1, pp. 101-118.
    

1. (1992) Giunti, Marco.  Computers, dynamical systems, phenomena, and the mind, PhD. dissertation, Indiana University.  328 pp. Advisor: Winnie, John A.  UMI order number: 9301444.
2. (1997) Giunti, Marco.  Computation, dynamics, and cognition, Oxford University Press, New York.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

1. (2008) Ledda, Antonio, Pietro Salaris and Marco Giunti.  Grafi pesati e regole di inferenza locali [Weighted Graphs and local inference rules].  Technical report of the project Conoscenze interattive distribuite: Media Asset Management e Semantic Web [Interactive Distributed Knowledge: Media Asset Management and Semantic Web], Marco Giunti scientific director, proponent Netsoul Srl, via Asti 9, 09126 Cagliari, co-proponent Dipartimento di Scienze Pedagogiche e Filosofiche dell'Università di Cagliari.  (Bando per "Progetti di Ricerca e Innovazione al di sotto della soglia de Minimis", POR Sardegna 2000/2006, Misura 3.13, pubblicato sul BURAS n. 7, del 28-02-2004.)

(YET) UNPUBLISHED PAPERS

• (2005b) Giunti, Marco.  Toward a theory of intrinsic computability, draft.
• (2007a) Giunti, Marco.  Reduction, emulation, and emergence in dynamical systems, revised and enlarged version of (2005a), draft.
• (2009a) Giunti, Marco.  Appendix - Dynamical systems, phenomena and Galilean models, technical appendix for the presentation Panorama e prospettive dell'approccio dinamico in scienza cognitiva [An overview of the dynamical approach to cognitive science and its prospect] (see below).
• (2010b) Giunti, Marco.  A representational approach to reduction in dynamical systems, draft.
• (2010d) Giunti, Marco.  Grafi pesati e relazioni n-arie: un approccio generale all’organizzazione automatica di dati secondo rapporti di rilevanza [Weighted graphs and n-ary relations: A general approach to automatized data organization according to relevance relations], forthcoming.
• (2010e) Giunti, Marco e Claudio Mazzola.  Dynamical systems on monoids: Toward a general theory of deterministic systems and motion, forthcoming in Proceedings of the Fifth AIRS National Conference, Marche Polytechnic University, Fermo, October 14-16, 2010.
• (2010f) Mazzola, Claudio e Marco Giunti.  Reversible dynamics and the directionality of time, forthcoming in Proceedings of the Fifth AIRS National Conference, Marche Polytechnic University, Fermo, October 14-16, 2010.
  

PRESENTATIONS

• The physical reductive explainability of phenomenal consciousness and the logical impossibility of zombies.  Slides (Power Point) presented at the sixth Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, April 7-11, 2004.
• Levels of reality, realization and reduction: A dynamical outlook.  Slides (Power Point) presented at the conference Approche Dynamique de la Cognition, Emergentisme & Representationalisme, Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, April 22-24, 2004.
• Discrete dynamical systems and intrinsic computability.  Slides (Power Point) for the conference La Conoscenza come Rete di Modelli, Convegno Progetto MIUR 2002-2004, Porto Conte, Alghero, September 20-23, 2004.
• Sistemi discreti con dinamica indecidibile [Discrete systems with undecidable dynamics].  Slides (Power Point) for the A.I.R.S. seminar, at the Dipartimento di Metodi e Modelli Matematici per le Scienze Applicate, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università La Sapienza, Rome, January 21, 2005.
• Dal simulazionismo al paradigma Galileiano [From simulationism to the Galilean paradigm].  Slides (Power Point) for the conference XIX Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, sez. di Psicologia Sperimentale, Cagliari, September 18-20, 2005.
• Emulation, Reduction, and Emergence in Dynamical Systems.  Slides (Power Point) for the 6th Systems Science European Congress, Paris, September 19-22, 2005.
• Reduction in dynamical systems:  A representational view.  Power Point slides (PDF version without animations) presented at the SILFS 2007 Conference, Milan, October 8-10, 2007.
• Bidimensional Turing machines as Galilean models of human computation.  Slides (PDF version) presented at A.I.R.S. 2007 Conference, Castel Ivano (Trento), October, 18-20 ottobre 2007.
• Oriented Graphs and Dynamical Systems. Slides (PDF version) presented at First Alophis Meeting, S. Agata (Scarperia – Florence, Italy), July 5-8, 2009.
• Grafi pesati e relazioni n-arie: un approccio generale all’organizzazione automatica di dati secondo rapporti di rilevanza [Weighted graphs and n-ary relations:  A general approach to automatic data organization according to relevance relationships].  Slides (PDF version) presented at XVI Congresso Nazionale della Società di Filosofia del Linguaggio, Forme e Formalizzazioni, Cagliari, September 10-12, 2009.
• Panorama e prospettive dell'approccio dinamico in scienza cognitiva [An overview of the dynamical approach to cognitive science and its prospects].  Slides (PDF version) for a lecture in the series C'era una volta la mente [Once upon a time the mind], at the Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione "R. Massa", Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, December 3, 2009.
• Dynamical systems on monoids: Toward a general theory of deterministic systems and motion.  Slides (PDF version) presented at A.I.R.S. 2010 Conference, Fermo, October 14-16, 2010.

FILOSOFIA TEORETICA - CORSO 2010/2011, I sem. [THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY - 2009/2010 COURSE, spring semester]

VECCHI CORSI (Filosofia Teoretica, Logica, Logica e Filos. della Scienza, Logica e Rappres. della Conoscenza)

[OLD COURSES (Theoretical Philosophy, Logic, Logic and Philos. of Science, Logic and Knowledge Representation)]

BIDIMENSIONAL TURING MACHINES

• Emulator and working examples of bidimensional Turing machines, emulator instructions, theory of bidimensional Turing machines.
  

TEACHING MATERIALS

1. Come provare la falsità della teoria pitagorica [How to prove the falsehood of the Pythagorean theory].
2. Gli argomenti di Zenone contro il movimento e la divisibilità  [Zeno's arguments against motion and divisibility]. 
3. La prova di Cantor dell'esistenza di numeri transfiniti più che numerabili  [Cantor's proof of the existence of nondenumerable transfinite numbers].
4. La tradizione filosofica e scientifica greca dalla morte di Aristotele al Neoplatonismo  [The philosophical and scientific greek tradition from Aristotle's death to Neoplatonism].  Outline.
5. La filosofia cristiana dal I al XIV secolo.  [Christian philosophy from I to XIV century].  Outline. 
6. Dispense di logica sillogistica: Dal Sillogismo alla Logica Formale  [Class notes: From Syllogism to Formal Logic].  NB: save and decompress the zip file; click on launch.html to open the hypertext.
7. Dispense di teoria della computazione + esercizi + programma di emulazione delle macchine di Turing da scaricare qui (file zippato, 23/10/2007, 6405KB)  [Class notes of computation theory + exercises + Turimg machines emulator (zip file, 23/10/2007)].  NB:  save and decompress the zip file; click on launch.html to open the hypertext. 
8. Come funzionano le macchine di Turing (file zippato - Presentazione in PowerPoint2007)  [How Turing Machines Work (zip file - PowerPoint2007 presentation)].  NB: save and decompress the zip file.  If you don't have PowerPoint2007, download PowerPoint2007 viewer.