PUBLICATIONS
Publications
A curated selection of books, edited volumes, chapters, and articles by Mario De Caro and Benedetta Giovanola on the ethical, political, and philosophical dimensions of artificial intelligence. This selection focuses on the work most directly relevant to the Chair’s research programme.
01 · BOOKS
Recent books
FEATURED BOOK · 2025
Intelligenze. Etica e politica dell’IA
Mario De Caro & Benedetta Giovanola · Il Mulino, Bologna, 2025
The founding volume of the Chair, co-authored by the two Chair holders. A systematic exploration of the ethical and political questions raised by artificial intelligence, written for a broad readership of scholars, policymakers, and citizens.
MONOGRAPH · 2021 / 2025
Le sfide dell’etica
Mario De Caro, Sergio Filippo Magni & Maria Silvia Vaccarezza · Mondadori Università, Milan, 2021 / 2025
A textbook on the main questions of contemporary ethical theory, including moral realism, virtue ethics, applied ethics, and the ethics of emerging technologies.
BOOK · 2025
Etica e intelligenza artificiale per l’impresa. Valori, principi, purpose
Benedetta Giovanola · ROI Edizioni, Milan, 2025 · ISBN 9788836202492
02 · EDITED VOLUMES
Edited volumes
Special issues, handbooks, and collections curated by the Chair holders and their collaborators, gathering contributions from leading scholars in AI ethics, philosophy of mind, and moral philosophy.
SPECIAL ISSUE · 2023
Digital Technologies and Human Decision-Making
Sofia Bonicalzi, Mario De Caro & Benedetta Giovanola (eds.) · Special issue of Topoi 42, 2023
EDITED VOLUME · 2022
In Dialogue
Mario De Caro & David Macarthur (eds.) · Collection of essays by Hilary Putnam · Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA), 2022
HANDBOOK · 2022
Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism
Mario De Caro & David Macarthur (eds.) · Routledge, London, 2022
EDITED VOLUME · 2021
Practical Wisdom. Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Mario De Caro & Maria Silvia Vaccarezza (eds.) · Routledge, London, 2021
03 · CHAPTERS & ESSAYS
Recent chapters & essays
Selected contributions to international handbooks and edited volumes on generative AI, migration, education, and the ethical governance of emerging technologies.
2026
GenAI and Epistemic Manipulation: An Ethical Analysis of GenAI Deepfake
Benedetta Giovanola, E. Petrocchi & S. Tiribelli · in The Palgrave Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence · Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 · pp. 557–572
2026
AI and Migration Challenges in the EU
Letizia Conte & Benedetta Giovanola · in Europe’s Digital Challenges: Governance, Regulation, and Society · Routledge, London, 2026 · pp. 175–190
2024
Ethics for Human-Centered Education in the Age of AI
Benedetta Giovanola & P. Granata · in Entrepreneurship and Digital Humanities · Edward Elgar, 2024 · pp. 96–109
04 · ARTICLES
Recent articles
Peer-reviewed articles and essays published in leading international journals on AI ethics, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, practical wisdom, and philosophical naturalism.
FORTHCOMING
The Promises and Perils of AI: Virtue Ethics, Human Governance, and the Limits of Machine Agency
Mario De Caro & Andrea Lavazza (Pegaso University) · Forthcoming
COMING SOON
2025
Virtue Monism and Medical Practice: Practical Wisdom as Cross-Situational Ethical Expertise
Mario De Caro et al. · The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 50(2), 2025 · pp. 80–92
2025
A Stalemate in Naturalizing Ethics: Insights from Theories of Punishment
Sofia Bonicalzi, Mario De Caro & Andrea Lavazza · International Journal of Philosophical Studies
2025
Uncovering ethical biases in publicly available fetal ultrasound datasets
Maria Chiara Fiorentino, Sara Moccia, Mariachiara Di Cosmo, Emanuele Frontoni, Benedetta Giovanola & Simona Tiribelli · npj Digital Medicine 8, 2025 · Article 355
2024
The Ethical Model of Orchestra Conducting: A Psychological and Philosophical Perspective
Mario De Caro & Chiara Palazzolo · Philosophical Psychology
2024
An ethical framework for trustworthy Neural Rendering applied in cultural heritage and creative industries
Lorenzo Stacchio, Emanuele Balloni, Lucrezia Gorgoglione, Adriano Mancini, Benedetta Giovanola, Simona Tiribelli & Primo Zingaretti · Frontiers in Computer Science 6, 2024
2024
Embedding AI ethics into the design and use of computer vision technology for consumer’s behaviour understanding
Simona Tiribelli, Benedetta Giovanola, Rocco Pietrini, Emanuele Frontoni & Marina Paolanti · Computer Vision and Image Understanding 248, 2024
2024
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage: Opportunities and Challenges
Simona Tiribelli, Sofia Pansoni, Emanuele Frontoni & Benedetta Giovanola · IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society 5(3), 2024 · pp. 293–305
2023
Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy: On the Ethical Dimension of Recommender Systems
Sofia Bonicalzi, Mario De Caro & Benedetta Giovanola · Topoi 42, 2023 · pp. 819–832
2023
Between the Placement Problem and the Reconciliation Problem. Philosophical Naturalism Today
Mario De Caro · Topoi 42(3), 2023 · pp. 675–682
2023
Beyond bias and discrimination: redefining the AI ethics principle of fairness in healthcare machine-learning algorithms
Benedetta Giovanola & Simona Tiribelli · AI & Society 38, 2023 · pp. 549–563
2023
Justice, emotions, socially disruptive technologies
Benedetta Giovanola · Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26(1), 2023 · pp. 104–119
2023
Ethical implications of artificial intelligence in the fashion industry
Benedetta Giovanola, Simona Tiribelli, Emanuele Frontoni & Marina Paolanti · Fashion Highlight 2, 2023 · pp. 22–28
2023
Accountable Deep-Learning-Based Vision Systems for Preterm Infant Monitoring
Lucia Migliorelli, Simona Tiribelli, Alessandro Cacciatore, Benedetta Giovanola, Emanuele Frontoni & Sara Moccia · Computer 56, 2023 · pp. 84–93
2022
Weapons of moral construction? On the value of fairness in algorithmic decision-making
Benedetta Giovanola & Simona Tiribelli · Ethics and Information Technology 24, 2022 · pp. 1–13
FULL RECORD
The complete bibliography
For a full record of the Chair holders’ scholarly output, consult their personal academic pages, which list all books, edited volumes, articles, and chapters.
Roma Tre University · Institutional repository
University of Macerata · Personal page