16 Facts About Gualtiero Piccinini

Gualtiero Piccinini is Curators' Distinguished Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Gualtiero Piccinini then went to graduate school at University of Pittsburgh, specializing in the history and philosophy of science.

Gualtiero Piccinini started as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri, St Louis, in 2005 and received early tenure and promotion to associate professor in 2010 and early promotion to full professor in 2014.

Gualtiero Piccinini held the title of Curators' Distinguished Professor at the same university from 2019 to 2024.

Gualtiero Piccinini has served as a visiting professor several times in his career, including at Washington University in St Louis in spring 2015, a fellow at Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in May 2011, as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the engineering graduate school of the Polytechnic University of Turin both in May 2007 and 2009, and in 2023, Gualtiero Piccinini was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.

Gualtiero Piccinini specializes in theories of Neuroscience, Computation, Psychology and the human Mind.

Gualtiero Piccinini has argued that computation is a kind of mechanistic process that does not require representation.

Gualtiero Piccinini is widely known for his critique of pancomputationalism and for his view about first-person data such as data from first-person reports.

Gualtiero Piccinini has argued that first-person data are scientifically legitimate because they are public like other scientific data.

Gualtiero Piccinini has published influential articles on computational theories of cognition, concepts, and consciousness, with award-winning physicist Sonya Bahar and his post doc and research associate Corey Maley from Princeton University, among others.

Gualtiero Piccinini has received several grants, awards, fellowships and teaching releases, including two Scholars' Awards by the National Science Foundation.

Gualtiero Piccinini has been Philosophy Program Chair for the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Gualtiero Piccinini is the founder of Brains, an academic group blog in the philosophy of mind, psychology, and neuroscience and one of the founders of SLAPSA, a St Louis-based organization for the philosophy of science, run by Piccinini, Carl Craver and Kent Staley.

Gualtiero Piccinini is the founder of ISPSM, a hub for connecting researchers around the globe in all areas of the philosophy of mind and related sciences, including, but not limited to, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of neuroscience.

Gualtiero Piccinini has edited multiple academic journals, including: Cognitive Science, Humanities, Journal of Cognitive Science, and The Rutherford Journal.

Gualtiero Piccinini is Editor-in-chief of "Studies in Brain and Mind", a Springer book series.