publications | Stefano Franchi

Books

Franchi, Stefano. Philosophy’s Ends (The Passion of Life, Volume 1). Vol. 1. The Passion of Life. Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2026. https://www.amazon.com/Philosophys-ends-passion-life-vol/dp/1905510802.
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What if life itself is fundamentally passive, contingent, driven by passions rather than rational mastery? The Passion of Life radically reimagines human existence by challenging philosophy’s traditional hierarchies of action over passivity, necessity over contingency. This ambitious three-volume project begins with Philosophy’s Ends, which demonstrates how philosophy’s proclaimed "end" reveals its essential connection to play. Through close readings of Hegel and Lévi-Strauss, the volume exposes a critical paradox: play-based conceptions of life collapse unless we abandon the false dichotomy between activity and passivity. Tracing passivity from Aristotle through post-Classical and modern debates on the passions, the volume recovers "receptivity" as the ground for understanding human life as intrinsically passive and contingent. Life, described (Volume 2) examines how cybernetics, evolutionary biology, and psychoanalysis reveal life as a passive, contingent phenomenon, while Life, lived (Volume 3) explores what such existence looks like through Christian mysticism and socio-political critique. Engaging contemporary biology, evolutionary robotics, and European philosophy, this work offers a provocative alternative to humanist assumptions about agency, autonomy, and control—a vision of life embraced rather than transcended through its vulnerability and openness to chance.
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Franchi, Stefano. Life, Described. Vol. 2. The Passion of Life. Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2026.
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Franchi, Stefano. Life, Lived. Vol. 3. The Passion of Life. Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2026.
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Franchi, Stefano, and Manuela Marchesini, eds. Filosofia Dei Mondi Globali. Conversazioni Con Giacomo Marramao. Bollati Boringhieri, 2017. https://www.bollatiboringhieri.it/libri/stefano-franchi-filosofia-dei-mondi-globali-9788833928456/.
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Franchi, Stefano, and Francesco Bianchini, eds. The Search for a Theory of Cognition: Early Mechanisms and New Ideas. With a Foreword by Douglas Hofstadter. Rodopi, 2011. https://brill.com/display/title/31269.
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The book brings into relief the variety of approaches and disciplines that have informed the quest for a theory of cognition. The center of interest are the historical, geographical, and theoretical peripheries of classic AI’s mainstream research program. The twelve chapters bring back into focus the variety of strategies and theoretical questions that researchers explored while working toward a scientific theory of cognition and pre-cognition. The volume is organized in four parts, each one including three essays. The first one deals with cybernetics, the approach that may be considered as the most important periphery of classic AI research. The second part focuses on the geographical periphery of AI research. It examines how the theories and techniques developed on AI’s home ground were translated into countries with different cultures and traditions: Italy, France, and the Soviet Union. The third part focuses on AI’s periphery understood in the cultural and historical meaning of the term. It contains essays that locate some of the central concepts of AI, like representation and computability, within a broader philosophical (Descartes, Aristotle, Leibniz) and technical background (programming theory and practice). The fourth and final part of the volume is focused directly on the limitation of Turing’s classic computability theory and its possible alternatives, some of which were studied i n the early years of AI’s research (e.g. Ashby’s re-entrant information model), while others have been intensely studied in recent times (quantum automata).
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Franchi, Stefano, Francesco Bianchini, and Maurizio Matteuzzi, eds. Verso Un’Archeologia Dell’Intelligenza Artificiale. Quodlibet, 2007. https://www.quodlibet.it/rivista/9788874621682.
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Franchi, Stefano, and Güven Güzeldere, eds. Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds. MIT Press, 2005. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262072451/mechanical-bodies-computational-minds/.
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Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds brings together key writings from researchers in AI and scholars in the humanities to reexamine the fundamental assumptions of both areas. The AI community, for example, could benefit from explorations of human intelligence a nd creativity by philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, literary critics, and others, while analysis of AI’s theoretical struggles and technical advances could yield insights into such traditional humanist concerns as the nature of rationality and the mind-body dichotomy. The contributions include a continuation of the famous Hubert Dreyfus-Daniel Dennett debate over Kasparov’s defeat by IBM’s Deep Blue; Philip Agre’s tracing of difficulties in AI research to the inherited tensions of Cartesian dualism; Evelyn Fox Keller’s examination of the development of computer technology in relation to biology; Douglas Hofstadter’s argument that thinking is more than the theorem-solving activities of AI; and Alison Adam’s discussion of the implicitly male universal subject used in AI.
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Franchi, Stefano, and Güven Güzeldere, eds. Constructions of the Mind. Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities. 4, Special Issue. Stanford Humanities Review, 1995. http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html.
URL
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Franchi, Stefano, and Güven Güzeldere, eds. Bridging the Gap. Where Cognitive Science Meets Literary Criticism. 4, 1 Supplement. Stanford Humanities Review, 1994.
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Articles & Book Contributions

Franchi, Stefano. “On Two Forms of Political Nihilism: Apocalyptic Reduction vs. Hypocalyptic Suspension.” Politica Comùn 17 (2025). https://politicacomun.com/on-two-forms-of-political-nihilism-apocalyptic-reduction-vs-hypocalyptic-suspension/.
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This essay distinguishes two forms of political nihilism: the "apocalyptic" mode that dominates contemporary discourse, and an alternative "hypocalyptic" mode that offers a path toward post-nihilist politics. Beginning with Turgenev’s Bazarov—who proclaimed nihilism as necessary ground-clearing for social transformation—the essay traces how political nihilism shifted from revolutionary critique to its current association with gratuitous violence and value-destruction, a characterization shared by both conservative and progressive thinkers like Wendy Brown. The analysis compares Peter Trawny’s diagnosis of late capitalism as a "TCM" (Technology-Capital-Medium) totality that forecloses all possibility of internal critique, with the Situationists’ similar analysis of spectacle society and its capacity for "récupération." While Trawny concludes that only an external "apocalyptic reduction"—ecological catastrophe or resource collapse—can disrupt the system, the Situationists maintained revolutionary hope through the transformation of everyday life and passionate experience. The essay argues that this divergence stems from differing temporal frameworks. Traditional revolutionary thought remains bound to apocalypticism: the expectation of a catastrophic rupture revealing transcendent truth. Drawing on Karl Löwith’s critique of philosophies of history and the concept of "hypocalypse" developed by the Luther Blissett collective, the essay proposes an alternative: revolution understood not as catastrophic culmination but as existential suspension (epochè) of the existing order. Rather than awaiting apocalyptic deliverance, hypocalyptic politics proceeds from the recognition that "the revolution has already happened"—embracing what Hegel called comedy’s "infinite light-heartedness" over tragedy’s sacrificial logic.
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  year = {2025}
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Franchi, Stefano. “Interview with Gerardo Muñoz.” In Tras La Política. Coloquio Con El Pensamiento Italiano, edited by Gerardo Muñoz. Editorial diecisiete, 2024.
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Franchi, Stefano. Gramsci’s Praxis from the Borg to Gilead. Praxis in Marx and Marxism, International Conference, Prague, December 2022, 2022.

This essay examines Antonio Gramsci’s concept of "passive revolution" to argue that any teleologically structured political philosophy—whether explicitly totalitarian, classically prohairetic, or ostensibly liberal—inevitably produces totalitarian outcomes. The analysis begins with Gramsci’s expansion of Vincenzo Cuoco’s original concept, demonstrating how passive revolutions reveal the structural persistence of social passivity: dominant classes absorb revolutionary demands through "progressive restorations" that reinforce existing power relations. Gramsci’s proposed remedy—working-class hegemony within a comprehensive "philosophy of praxis" grounded in productive work as the defining human function—is shown to culminate in a "Borg-like" collectivist formation that assimilates all difference into productive conformity. The essay then examines whether Aristotelian prohairesis (deliberative practical activity) might avoid such outcomes. However, prohairetic citizenship necessarily produces "sleepers" who cannot conform to norms of rational deliberation, generating a fractured community analogous to Atwood’s dystopian Gilead. Liberal philosophy fares no better: drawing on Max Stirner’s critique, the essay demonstrates that Rawlsian "good-agnostic" minimalism operates through normalizing mechanisms that produce marginalized remainders as constitutive others—a delusion allegorized by Weir’s The Truman Show. The essay concludes that all three political frameworks fail because each posits a human ergon (function) whose maximization becomes the political telos. The only escape lies not in eliminating social passivity but in preserving it: abandoning the search for any human function in favor of embracing the functionless (argos), thereby breaking the cycle of passive revolutions and their subalternizing effects.
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```
Franchi, Stefano. “Introduzione.” In Filosofia Dei Mondi Globali. Conversazioni Con Giacomo Marramao, edited by Stefano Franchi and Manuela Marchesini. Bollati Boringhieri, 2017.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Dai Massimizzatori Di Utilità Neo-Classici Alle Coalizioni Sociali Fondate Sui Valori: Un’Interpretazione Di Passaggio Ad Occidente.” In Filosofia Dei Mondi Globali. Conversazioni Con Giacomo Marramao, edited by Stefano Franchi and Manuela Marchesini. Bollati Boringhieri, 2017.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Phenomenology of the Fool or, on the Character Type of the Gelassen Mann in Reiner Schürmann.” Política Común 10 (2017).
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Franchi, Stefano. “Cognition as Second Order Regulation.” In Computing and Philosophy. Selected Papers from IACAP 2014, edited by Vincent Müller, vol. 375. Sinthese Library. Springer, 2016.
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Franchi, Stefano. “General Homeostasis, Passive Life, and the Challenge to Autonomy.” In Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Vincent Müller. Synthèse Library. Springer, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26485-1_17.
DOI
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Akleman, Ergun, Stefano Franchi, Devkan Kaleci, Laura Mandell, Takashi Yamauchi, and Derya Akleman. “A Theoretical Framework to Represent Narrative Structures for Visual Storytelling.” In Proceedings of Bridges 2015: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture, edited by Kelly Delp, Craig S. Kaplan, Douglas McKenna, and Reza Sarhangi. 2015.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Ashbian Homeostasis as Non-Autonomous Adaptation.” Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 2015 IEEE Nineth International Conference on Adaptive Systems, 2015.
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Franchi, Stefano. “On the Backward Passage from Neo-Classic Utility Maximizers to Value-Based Social Coalitions.” Política Común (Special Issue on Giacomo Marramao’s The Passage West) 8 (2015).
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Franchi, Stefano, Güven Güzeldere, and Eric Minch. “Da Vienna Alla California. Un Viaggio Attraverso Le Discipline. Intervista Con Heinz Von Foerster.” Costruttivismi 2 (2015): 150–68.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Game Theory, Nash-Equilibria, and the Stable Set.” In Complexity and Decision-Making, edited by Sergio Barile, Valerio Eletti, and Maurizio Matteuzzi. Springer, 2014.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Teoria Dei Giochi e Complessità.” In Decisioni e Scelte in Contesti Complessi, edited by Sergio Barile, Valerio Eletti, and Maurizio Matteuzzi. Wolters Kluwers, 2013.
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Franchi, Stefano. “On Models, Simulations, and the Relevancy of Biochemistry to Cognitive Functions.” Constructivist Foundations 8, no. 3 (2013): 141–42.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Are Computers Digital? Should Constructivists Care?” Constructivist Foundations 8, no. 3 (2013): 17–19.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Homeostats for the 21st Century? Lessons Learned from Simulating Ashby Simulating the Brain.” Constructivist Foundations 8, no. 3 (2013): 501–32.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Digital Humanities: an Italian Invention.” Humanist Studies & the Digital Age, 2013.
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```
Franchi, Stefano. “How Computing Technology Met the Humanities.” In Theory and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Vincent Müller. SAPERE. Springer, 2012.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Living Thought and Living Things. On Roberto Esposito’s Il Pensiero Vivente.” Res Publica 29 (2012).
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Franchi, Stefano. “Life, Death, and Resurrection of the Homeostat.” In The Search for a Theory of Cognition: Early Mechanisms and New Ideas, edited by Stefano Franchi and Francesco Bianchini. Rodopi, 2011.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Les Jeux Anaclastiques De Lévi-Strauss.” In Les Années Soixante, edited by Patrice Maniglier. Presses Universitaires de France, 2011.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Jammed Machines and Contingently Fit Animals: Psychoanalysis’s Biological Paradox.” French Literature Series 38 (2011): 213–56.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Radical Constructivism’s Tathandlung, Structure, and Geist.” Constructivist Foundations 6, no. 4 (2011): 17–20.
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Franchi, Stefano, and Francesco Bianchini. “On the Historical Dynamics of Cognitive Science: a View from the Periphery.” In The Search for a Theory of Cognition. Early Mechanisms and New Ideas, edited by Stefano Franchi and Francesco Bianchini. Rodopi, 2011.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Can Machines Have an Unconscious? Would They Have To?” In Proceedings of the VIII European Conference on Philosophy and Computing (ECAP), edited by Rainhard Zvi Bengez. Verlag Dr. Hut, 2010.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Life, Death, and Resurrection of the Homeostat.” In Proceedings of the VII European Conference on Philosophy and Computing (ECAP), edited by Jordi Vallverdù. 2009.
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Franchi, Stefano. “Intelligenza Artificiale Come Scienza, Metafisica, o Epistemologia. Note in Margine Ad Uno Scambio Con Herbert Simon.” In Verso Un’Archeologia Dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, edited by Stefano Franchi, Francesco Bianchini, and Maurizio Matteuzzi. Quodlibet, 2007.
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  title = {Intelligenza artificiale come scienza, metafisica, o epistemologia. Note in margine ad uno scambio con Herbert Simon},
  booktitle = {Verso un’archeologia dell’intelligenza artificiale},
  editor = {Franchi, Stefano and Bianchini, Francesco and Matteuzzi, Maurizio},
  pages = {19–39},
  publisher = {Quodlibet},
  year = {2007}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano, and Francesco Bianchini. “Per Un’Archeologia Dell’Intelligenza Artificiale.” In Verso Un’Archeologia Dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, edited by Stefano Franchi, Francesco Bianchini, and Maurizio Matteuzzi. Quodlibet, 2007.
```
@inbook{FranchiBianchiniIntroduzione2007,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano and Bianchini, Francesco},
  title = {Per un’archeologia dell’intelligenza artificiale},
  booktitle = {Verso un’archeologia dell’intelligenza artificiale},
  editor = {Franchi, Stefano and Bianchini, Francesco and Matteuzzi, Maurizio},
  pages = {3–20},
  publisher = {Quodlibet},
  year = {2007}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Blunting the Edge of Second-Order Cybernetics: the Heritage of Heinz Von Foerster (Book Review).” Constructivist Foundations 3, no. 1 (2007): 131–32.
```
@article{FranchiReviewMuller2007,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Blunting the Edge of Second-Order Cybernetics: the Heritage of Heinz von Foerster (book review)},
  journal = {Constructivist Foundations},
  volume = {3},
  number = {1},
  pages = {131–132},
  year = {2007}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Herbert Simon, Anti-Philosopher.” In Computing and Philosophy, edited by Lorenzo Magnani. Associated International Academic Publishers, 2006.
```
@inbook{FranchiSimon2006,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Herbert Simon, anti-Philosopher},
  booktitle = {Computing and Philosophy},
  editor = {Magnani, Lorenzo},
  pages = {27–40},
  publisher = {Associated International Academic Publishers},
  year = {2006}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Of Chess, Games, and Flies.” Essays in Philosophy 6, no. 1 (2005). http://www.humboldt.edu/ essays/franchi.html.
URL
```
@article{FranchiChessGamesFlies2005,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Of Chess, Games, and Flies},
  journal = {Essays in Philosophy},
  volume = {6},
  number = {1},
  url = {http://www.humboldt.edu/ essays/franchi.html},
  year = {2005}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Hunters, Cooks, and Nooks.” Diacritics 33, no. 2 (2005): 98–109.
```
@article{FranchiCooks2005,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Hunters, Cooks, and Nooks},
  journal = {Diacritics},
  volume = {33},
  number = {2},
  pages = {98–109},
  year = {2005}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Michel Rapaport, Later Derrida (Book Review).” Essays in Philosophy 6 (2005).
```
@article{FranchiReviewRapaport2005,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Michel Rapaport, Later Derrida (book review)},
  journal = {Essays in Philosophy},
  volume = {6},
  year = {2005}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano, and Güven Güzeldere. “Dialogues with Colorful Personalities of Early AI.” In Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds, edited by Stefano Franchi and Güven Güzeldere. MIT Press, 2005.
```
@inbook{FranchiGuzeldereColorful2005,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven},
  title = {Dialogues with Colorful Personalities of Early AI},
  booktitle = {Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds},
  editor = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven},
  pages = {295–303},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  year = {2005}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano, and Güven Güzeldere. “Machinations of the Mind.” In Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds. MIT Press, 2005.
```
@inbook{FranchiGuzeldereMachinations2005,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven},
  title = {Machinations of the Mind},
  booktitle = {Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds},
  pages = {1–135},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  year = {2005}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano, Güven Güzeldere, and Eric Minch. “From Vienna to California: a Journey across Disciplines. An Interview with Heinz Von Foerster.” Kybernetes 34, nos. 1-2 (2005): 15–32.
```
@article{FranchiGuzeldereMinchForsterInterview2005,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven and Minch, Eric},
  title = {From Vienna to California: a Journey across Disciplines. An Interview with Heinz von Foerster},
  journal = {Kybernetes},
  volume = {34},
  number = {1-2},
  pages = {15–32},
  year = {2005}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “L’Intelligenza Artificiale e La Teoria Dei Giochi. Un’Indagine Storico-Critica.” In Percezione, Linguaggio, Coscienza. Percorsi Tra Cognizione e Intelligenza Artificiale, edited by Maurizio Matteuzzi and Francesco Bianchini. Quodlibet, 2004.
```
@inbook{FranchiSimonGameTheoory2004,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {L’intelligenza artificiale e la teoria dei giochi. Un’indagine storico-critica},
  booktitle = {Percezione, linguaggio, coscienza. Percorsi tra cognizione e intelligenza artificiale},
  editor = {Matteuzzi, Maurizio and Bianchini, Francesco},
  pages = {63–88},
  publisher = {Quodlibet},
  year = {2004}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Passive Politics.” Contretemps, no. 5 (November 2004). http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps/.
URL
```
@article{Franchi2004,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Passive Politics},
  journal = {Contretemps},
  number = {5},
  url = {http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps/},
  year = {2004}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech (Book Review).” Essays in Philosophy 5, no. 2 (2004).
```
@article{FranchiReviewFoucault2005,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech (book review)},
  journal = {Essays in Philosophy},
  volume = {5},
  number = {2},
  year = {2004}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Telos and Terminus: Hegel and the End of Philosophy.” Idealistic Studies 28, no. 1–2 (1998): 35–46.
```
@article{FranchiTelosTerminus1998,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Telos and Terminus: Hegel and the End of Philosophy},
  journal = {Idealistic Studies},
  volume = {28},
  number = {1–2},
  pages = {35–46},
  year = {1998}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Palomar, The Triviality of Modernity, and the Doctrine of the Void.” New Literary History 28, no. 4 (1997): 757–78.
```
@article{FranchiPalomar1997,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Palomar, The Triviality of Modernity, and the Doctrine of the Void},
  journal = {New Literary History},
  volume = {28},
  number = {4},
  pages = {757–778},
  year = {1997}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Endgames. Game and Play at the End of Philosophy.” Phdthesis, Stanford University, 1997.
```
@phdthesis{FranchiPhD1997,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Endgames. Game and Play at the End of Philosophy},
  year = {1997}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano, and Güven Güzeldere. “Dialogues with Colorful Personalities of Early AI.” In Constructions of the Mind. Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities, edited by Stefano Franchi and Güven Güzeldere, 4, Special Issue. Stanford Humanities Review, 1995. http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html.
URL
```
@inbook{FranchiGuzeldereColorful1995,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven},
  title = {Dialogues with Colorful Personalities of Early AI},
  booktitle = {Constructions of the Mind. Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities},
  editor = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven},
  volume = {4, Special Issue},
  pages = {161–170},
  publisher = {Stanford Humanities Review},
  url = {http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html},
  year = {1995}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano, and Güven Güzeldere. “Mindless Mechanisms, Mindful Constructions.” In Constructions of the Mind—Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities, edited by Stefano Franchi and Güven Güzeldere, 4, Special Issue. Stanford Humanities Review, 1995. http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html.
URL
```
@inbook{FranchiGuzeldereMindless1995,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven},
  title = {Mindless Mechanisms, Mindful Constructions},
  booktitle = {Constructions of the Mind—Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities},
  editor = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven},
  volume = {4, Special Issue},
  pages = {ix–xxxi},
  publisher = {Stanford Humanities Review},
  url = {http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html},
  year = {1995}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano, Güven Güzeldere, and Eric Minch. “Interview with Heinz Von Foerster.” In Constructions of the Mind—Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities, edited by Stefano Franchi and Güven Güzeldere, 4, Special Issue. Stanford Humanities Review, 1995. http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html.
URL
```
@inbook{FranchiGuzeldereMinch1995,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven and Minch, Eric},
  title = {Interview with Heinz von Foerster},
  booktitle = {Constructions of the Mind—Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities},
  editor = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven},
  volume = {4, Special Issue},
  pages = {288–307},
  publisher = {Stanford Humanities Review},
  url = {http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html},
  year = {1995}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano, and Güven Güzeldere. “Of Gaps, Bridges, and Close Encounters of One of a Kind.” In Bridging the Gap—Where Cognitive Science Meets Literary Criticism, edited by Stefano Franchi and Güven Güzeldere, 4, 1 Supplement. Stanford Humanities Review, 1994. http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-1/text/toc.html.
URL
```
@inbook{FranchiGuzeldereGaps1994,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven},
  title = {Of Gaps, Bridges, and Close Encounters of one of a Kind},
  booktitle = {Bridging the Gap—Where Cognitive Science meets Literary Criticism},
  editor = {Franchi, Stefano and Güzeldere, Güven},
  volume = {4, 1 Supplement},
  pages = {vii–xii},
  publisher = {Stanford Humanities Review},
  url = {http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-1/text/toc.html},
  year = {1994}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Putnam and Heidegger on Truth.” Annali Di Discipline Filosofiche Dell’Università Di Bologna 10 (1990).
```
@article{FranchiPutnamHeidegger1990,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Putnam and Heidegger on Truth},
  journal = {Annali di Discipline Filosofiche dell’Università di Bologna},
  volume = {10},
  year = {1990}
}
```
Franchi, Stefano. “Modelli Descrittivi Ed Analisi Formale: Un’Ipotesi Intorno All’AI.” Annali Di Discipline Filosofiche Dell’Università Di Bologna 7 (1987).
```
@article{FranchiModelli1994,
  author = {Franchi, Stefano},
  title = {Modelli descrittivi ed analisi formale: un’ipotesi intorno all’AI},
  journal = {Annali di Discipline Filosofiche dell’Università di Bologna},
  volume = {7},
  year = {1987}
}
```