Laura Corti

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Laura Corti’s research sits at the vital intersection of phenomenology, bioethics, and embodied cognition, where she interrogates the human cost of technological progress. Her most-cited work, “Artificial Emotions: Toward a Human-Centric Ethics” (2022, 5 citations), challenges the field to move beyond functionalist models of AI, arguing instead for a framework that respects the lived, emotional reality of human-machine interaction. In her influential chapter “Towards a Quanto-Qualitative Biological Engineering: The Case of the Neuroprosthetic Hand” (2021, 3 citations), Corti exposes a critical gap in neuroprosthetics: the reduction of touch to mere data. She proposes a stereoscopic analysis that recovers the qualitative, sensory experience of the body—a move that redefines what it means to engineer a “natural” limb. Her more recent “Robot as Embodied Agent? A Phenomenological Critique” (2023, 2 citations) deepens this inquiry, using Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to argue that robots lack the primordial, lived body necessary for genuine agency. Though her citation counts are modest, Corti’s work is pioneering in its insistence that ethical design must account for the full texture of human embodiment, making her a crucial voice for students and researchers navigating the future of human-centered technology.