Michele Farisco

Michele Farisco

Michele Farisco

Postdoc Researcher

Michele Farisco, PhD, is part of CRB's neuroethics research team as a postdoc researcher working on Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroethics within the Human Brain Project. He holds a MA in Philosophy from University of Naples "L'Orientale" in 2003, a PhD in "Ethics and Anthropology. History and Foundation" from University of Lecce in 2008, a Master degree in Biolaw from the University of Rome "Lumsa" in 2009, and a PhD in Neuroscience and Philosophy from Uppsala University in 2019. He spent time on an exchange grant from the European Neuroscience and Society Network within the European Science Foundation joining the Coma Science Group of the University of Liège (Belgium). He is the head of the "Science and society" research unit of Biogem Genetic Research Centre in Ariano Irpino (Italy). He is the author of four books and several articles about posthuman philosophy, philosophical, ethical and legal implications (ELSI) of genetics and neuroscience, consciousness (with a particular focus on disorders of consciousness), addiction, Artificial Intelligence, and neuroethics. He was awareded the title of Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy in Italy in 2015. 

His current research focuses on consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and reciprocal connection. Specifically, in collaboration with empirical scientists from inside and outside the HBP, his research aims at developing a philosophical and ethical framework for the experimental and computational explorations of cognition and consciousness. To illustrate, he is collaborating in the elaboration of concrete empirical, theoretical, and behavioural criteria for ascribing consciousness to people with disorders of consciousness, animals, and machines, and he is engaged in exploring the arising ethical issues.

E-mail: michele.farisco@crb.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 65 66

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  • Farisco, Michele; Salles, Arleen

    American and European Guidelines on Disorders of Consciousness: Ethical Challenges of Implementation

    Part of The journal of head trauma rehabilitation, 2022.

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  • Farisco, Michele; Pennartz, Cyriel; Annen, Jitka; Cecconi, Benedetta et al.

    Indicators and criteria of consciousness: ethical implications for the care of behaviourally unresponsive patients

    Part of BMC Medical Ethics, 2022.

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  • Farisco, Michele; Evers, Kathinka; Salles, Arleen

    On the Contribution of Neuroethics to the Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

    Part of Neuroethics, 2022.

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  • Stahl, Bernd Carsten; Akintoye, Simisola; Bitsch, Lise; Bringedal, Berit et al.

    From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design

    Part of Journal of Responsible Innovation, 2021.

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  • Salles, Arleen; Evers, Kathinka; Farisco, Michele

    Anthropomorphism in AI

    Part of AJOB Neuroscience, p. 88-95, 2020.

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  • Salles, Arleen; Farisco, Michele

    Of Ethical Frameworks and Neuroethics in Big Neuroscience Projects: A View from the HBP

    Part of AJOB Neuroscience, p. 167-175, 2020.

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  • Farisco, Michele; Evers, Kathinka; Salles, Arleen

    Towards Establishing Criteria for the Ethical Analysisof Artificial Intelligence

    Part of Science and Engineering Ethics, p. 2413-2425, 2020.

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  • Farisco, Michele; Evers, Kathinka; Salles, Arleen

    Towards Establishing Criteria for the Ethical Analysisof Artificial Intelligence

    Part of Science and Engineering Ethics, p. 2413-2425, 2020.

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  • Farisco, Michele

    Brain, consciousness and disorders of consciousness at the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy

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  • Pennartz, Cyriel M. A.; Farisco, Michele; Evers, Kathinka

    Indicators and Criteria of Consciousness in Animals and Intelligent Machines: An Inside-Out Approach

    Part of Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2019.

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Neuroethics & Philosophy of the Brain

The CRB neuroethics research team is an international, multi-disciplinary group. Our backgrounds allow us to approach these issues from theoretical, philosophical, social, bio-political and clinical perspectives. We collaborate closely with neuroscientists to understand the ethical and philosophical questions that neuroscience brings. In this report, we provide a summary of our research. The report was updated in November 2016. We are planning an update in the autumn 2020. 

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Finding hidden awareness

Patients with disorders that affect their consciousness are often unable to communicate. Sometimes there is a hidden awareness somewhere in the patient’s brain, but how do we find it? Michele Farisco is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, doing his second PhD in Neuroethics.

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