Marco Fasoli is a tenure-track assistant professor (RTT) in the Department of Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on the philosophy of technology and cognitive science, with a particular emphasis on cognitive artifacts and the impact of digital technologies and AI on human well-being.
He currently teaches two courses—Mind and Action and Philosophy of AI—within the BA program in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence at Sapienza. He has also taught in the PhD program in Sustainable Development and Climate Change at IUSS Pavia.
He earned his BA and MA degrees in Philosophy from the University of Padua in 2009 and completed his PhD in Philosophy of Cognitive Science at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in 2013. In the same year, he founded Digitale Responsabile, a public outreach initiative dedicated to promoting the conscious and responsible use of digital technologies and developing digital skills.
From January 2016 to December 2019, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he contributed to the Benessere Digitale Scuole project (co-funded by Fastweb and Bicocca) and to the establishment of the Benessere Digitale Research Center. From 2020 to 2022, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at IUSS Pavia, working on the PRIN project MOM (The Mark of the Mental).
His work has been published in numerous national and international peer-reviewed journals, including Philosophy & Technology, Minds and Machines, The Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Aphex, and Sistemi Intelligenti. In 2019, he published the monograph Il benessere digitale [Digital Well-being] with Il Mulino and received the Vittorio Girotto Award from the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC) for his article Contro lo instrumentalismo tecnologico. Per una teoria analitica della prescrittività degli artefatti [Against Technological Instrumentalism: Toward an Analytical Theory of Artifact Prescriptiveness].