Publications

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Zanzarella, I. 

(2025). The Problem of Musical Creativity and its Relevance for Ethical and Legal Decisions towards Musical AI, Filosofia Morale/Moral Philosophy, 2, 101-113 (ISSN: 2785-5457).

(2024). Outlining a Protohistory of Artificial Intelligence and Music: From Antiquity to Nineteenth Century, Rivista di Studi Politici, 1:99-141 (ISSN: 1120-4036).

(2019). Where Opposites Meet: Mathematics Between Science and Humanities. Scienza&Filosofia, 22 (ISSN: 2036-2927).

Forthcoming/Submitted/In preparation

(2026). Review on Affective Attributions to Robots, BMC Psychology (with Edoardo Datteri, Pasquale Grieco, Cecilia Roselli).

(2025). From Automata to Cybernetics. The Uncanny as a Symptom of the Historical Making of Human-Machine Intelligence. In Lombardi, L. (ed.). Thresholds of Intelligence. The Freedom of Mind between the Living and the Artificial. Biblioteca filosofica di Quaestio (with Pasquale Grieco).

– An article on a propositionalist model of emotion for HRI.

– An article on the uncanny in the early history of automation

Unpublished

(2025) Affectivity in Computational and Robotic Systems: History, Epistemology and Application, PhD Dissertation, University of Bari.

(2023) Soggettività ed emozioni musicali. PhD report, University of Bari.

(2022) Acoustic Objectivity. A Historical and Philosophical Investigation of Its Meaning and Scope. PhD Project, Ruhr University Bochum.

(2021) Scientific and Aesthetic Understanding. The Case of musical Exemplification. Master’s thesis, Ruhr University Bochum. 

(2021) Kants Rassentheorie. Term paper, Ruhr University Bochum.

(2021) The Concept of Entropy in Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Music Theory: On the Possibility of a Formal and Philosophical Isomorphism, Term paper, Ruhr University Bochum.

(2020) The Value of Revolutionary Science. Term paper, Ruhr University Bochum.

(2020) The Growth of Modern Acoustics. Term paper, Ruhr University Bochum

(2020) Leibnizian and Nonstandard Analysis: Philosophical Problematization of an Alleged Continuity. Term paper, Ruhr University Bochum.

(2020) Der Wortschatz der wissenschaftlichen Forschung über die Musik zwischen 16. und 19. Jahrhundert. Eine computerlinguistische Untersuchung. Term paper, Ruhr University Bochum.

(2018) La matematica come criterio di unità del sapere Dall’«irragionevole efficacia della matematica nelle scienze fisiche» alle strutture topologiche nella “musica mathematica” di J.S. Bach. Bachelor’s thesis, University of Bari.