Michele Di Francesco is professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Past Director (“Rettore”) of the School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia. Membre associés of the Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS, EHESS, ENS), he is President of the Italian Society for Neuroethics and Philosophy of Neuroscience (SINe). He is the author various books and about one hundred scientific papers. His main field of research is the philosophy of mind and of cognitive science, and in particular the philosophical problems of subjective experience (such as the nature of the Self and the place of consciousness in the natural order), the extended-mind model of cognition, and the philosophical basis of cognitive neuroscience.