Embodied, Extended, Ignorant Minds New Studies on the Nature of Not-Knowing

Selene Arfini
is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pavia, currently working on a project entitled “Ignorance in the perspective of the ecology of cognition: cognitive niches, the extended mind, and ignorance-based reasoning”. Her current work involves the foundation of a cognitively oriented epistemology of ignorance, with reference to the extended mind theory, cognitive niches construction studies, and a naturalized perspective on logic. She has established herself as an authority on the topic of ignorance in relation to cognition, recently publishing
Ignorant Cognition – A Philosophical Investigation of the Cognitive Features of Not-Knowing
, Springer (2019) and editing a Synthese Topical Collection on “
Knowing the Unknown: Philosophical Perspective on Ignorance
” (2020). 



Lorenzo Magnani
is a philosopher, epistemologist, and cognitive scientist, professor at the University of Pavia, Italy, and director of its Computational Philosophy Laboratory. His book
Abduction, Reason, and Science
(2001) has become a well-respected work in the field of research on human cognition. The book
Morality in a Technological World
has been published by Cambridge University Press (2007). A
bductive Cognition
has been published by Springer in 2009 together with the more recent
Understanding Violence
, 2011. A new monograph that completes his rich studies on abductive cognition has come out in 2017,
The Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity
, together with the Springer
Handbook of Model-Based Science
(edited with Tommaso Bertolotti). He is the co-editor of the Special Issue for Synthese entitled K
nowing the Unknown: Philosophical Perspectives on Ignorance
.