Lorenzo Magnani, philosopher, epistemologist, and cognitive scientist, is a professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pavia, Italy, and the director of its Computational Philosophy Laboratory. His primary research interests are in the area of philosophy of science, logic, and artificial intelligence. A major objective of his research has been to create a working synthesis between epistemological/historical perspectives and investigations of representations and reasoning practices carried out in the sciences of cognition. He devoted various studies in the fields of philosophy of science, logic, and cognitive science, also making specific and deep research on abductive cognition (with four monographs), science, technology, and human values, philosophy of computing, critical thinking, non-standard logics, philosophy of medicine, history and philosophy of geometry, violence, morality, and religion. His historical research centered on 19th and 20th-century geometry and philosophy of geometry. His pre