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He was born in 1954 in Rome and earned in 1984 the M.D. in Philosophy of Science by the State University of Rome, with a thesis on the relationship between the neural network approach and the physical foundation of the intentionality according to the Aristotelian theory. He is actually Full Professor of Philosophy of Nature and of Science at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, where he served as Dean of the Faculty, from 2008 to 2014. Since 1987 he started his research in the neural network field, in collaboration with several Italian scientific institutes. Apart from several collaborations with some Italian public and private institutions for practical applications of neural networks, from 1990 to 1991, he was associated researcher by the Institute for Electronic Circuits of the National Research Council of Genoa (Italy), to develop neural models for textual character recognition. From 1992 to 1997 he was associated researcher by the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Section "Roma 2, Tor Vergata", to develop neural models for particle recognition in high energy physics. From 1996 he is Director - and co-founder with Prof. Edward Nelson+, of the Dept. of Mathematics of University of Princeton, NJ, with Prof. Ennio De Giorgi+, of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) and with Dr. Antonio Luigi Perrone – of the International Research Area on Foundations of the Sciences, by the Pontifical Lateran University. Prof. Basti is member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), as well as of the International Neural Network Society (INNS), of the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) (Computer Society and Neural Network Society) and of the American Society for the Advancement of Science (AAS). In 1995 he earned a “Neural Network Leadership Award” from the INNS, for his research in neural network field. Actually, his research interests are mainly directed on the formal logic, theoretical computer science applied to quantum computing, and on the formal ontology of the cognitive sciences. He is Author of five books and of more than one hundred thirty scientific and philosophical papers on philosophy of logic, on formal philosophy, on cognitive sciences, and on philosophy of mind.
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