Guido Cassinadri, PhD

Guido Cassinadri obtained a PhD in Health Science, Technology and Management at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, with a dissertation in neuroethics on the rights of patients to receive post-trial access to beneficial BCI treatment. He is a guest scientist at the Chair of Ethics of AI and Neuroscience at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at TU Munich. His research lies at the intersection between the philosophy of cognitive science, neuroethics and philosophy of technology, exploring the ethical implications of mind–machine integration through Brain–Computer Interfaces.

• Philosophy of cognitive science
• Neuroethics
• Human-Machine interactions
• Philosophy of technology
• Neurorights

Cassinadri, G. (2025) The Right to Mental Integrity: Multidimensional, Multilayered and Extended. Neuroethics 18, 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-025-09585-6

Cassinadri G, Ienca M. (2024). Non-voluntary BCI explantation: assessing possible neurorights violations in light of contrasting mental ontologies. Journal of Medical Ethics https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109830

Cassinadri G. and Fasoli, M. (2024) The extended mind thesis and the cognitive artifacts approach: a comparison. In Ienca, M. and Starke, G. (eds.) Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics. Brains and Machines: Towards a unified Ethics of AI and Neuroscience. Elsevier. ISBN 2589-2959 https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.dnb.2024.02.004

Cassinadri, G. (2024). ChatGPT and the Technology-Education Tension: Applying Contextual Virtue Epistemology to a Cognitive Artifact. Philosophy and Technology. 37, 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00701-7

Cassinadri, G., Fasoli, M. (2023). Rejecting the extended cognition moral narrative: a critique of two normative arguments for extended cognition. Synthese 202, 155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04397-8

Cassinadri, G. (2022): Moral Reasons Not to posit Extended Cognitive Systems: A reply to Farina and Lavazza. Philosophy and Technology. 35, 64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00560-0

• Member of the GENAI Project: ​Ensuring Human Cognitive Flourishing against the background of GENerative AI: sustaining deep minds within our new cognitive ecology.
• Member and co-coordinator of the organizing committee of the Seasonal School Ethos+Tekhne on the social and ethical implications of AI development. This seasonal school is organized within the EELISA Universities Network.

Cassinadri, G. and Fasoli, M. 25/08/2023 Rejecting the Extended Narrative: A Critique of Two Normative Arguments for Extended Cognition. Conference 24/08/2023 – 26/08/2023 TXM@25 – “The Extended Mind” at 25, University of Colorado, Boulder (USA)