Current Positions and Associations

Research Chair in Philosophy of Information, Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire

UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics, School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire

Coordinator of the GPI, the research Group on Philosophy of Information, University of Hertfordshire

Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford

Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy, OUCL (Dept. of Computer Science), University of Oxford

Coordinator of the IEG, the Information, Ethics interdepartmental research Group, University of Oxford

Recent Publications

Information - A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

	Infosfera - Etica e filosofia nell'età dell'informazione, traduzione a cura di Massimo Durante,  Introduzione di Terrel Ward Bynum (Torino: Giappichelli, 2009). This is a collection of ten articles on information and computer ethics I published between 1999 and 2009.
	(with Gian Paolo Terravecchia) Le Parole della Filosofia Contemporanea (Roma: Carocci, 2009).
	Guest editor of a special issue of The Information Society, dedicated to "The Philosophy of Information, its Nature and Future Developments". Volume 25, Number 3, May-June 2009. The Information Society and Its Philosophy: Introduction to the Special Issue on “The Philosophy of Information, its Nature and Future Developments”.
	Guest editor (with Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson) of a special issue of Synthese, dedicated to "The Philosophy of Information and Logic". Volume 167, Number 2, March, 2009. Introduction, Luciano Floridi and Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson.
The Rediscovery and Posthumous Influence of Scepticism" in Richard Bett (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 267-287. "Information Technology", in The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Technology, edited by J.-K. Berg Olsen, S. A. Pedersen and V. F. Hendricks (Oxford - New York: Blackwell, 2009). (with Turilli, M.), The Ethics of Information Transparency, Ethics and Information Technology, 2009, 11.2, 105-112. The information Society and Its Philosophy, The Information Society, 2009, 25.3, 153-158. (with Taddeo M. and Turilli, M.), Turing's Imitation Game: Still a Challenge for All Machines and Some Judges, Minds and Machines, 2009, 19.1, 145-150. Philosophical Conceptions of Information, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009, 5363, 13-53. Artificial Companions and their Philosophical Challenges, Dialogue and Universalism, special issue on Web-based Technology and the New University, guest editor Piotr Boltuc, 19.1-2, 31-36. Against Digital Ontology, Synthese, 2009, 168.1, (2009), 151-178. Logical Fallacies as Informational Shortcuts, Synthese, 2009, 167.2, 317-325. The Semantic Web vs. Web 2.0: a Philosophical Assessment, Episteme, 2009, 6, 25-37. (with D’Agostino, M.), The Enduring Scandal of Deduction. Is Propositional Logic really Uninformative?, Synthese, 2009, 167.2, 271-315.

Current Speaking Engagements

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	Information - A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). It has been printed and it is available.
	I have been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy & Technology, the new journal dedicated to the philosophy of technology that Springer will launch in 2011.

(editor) The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). You can order it now.

Forthcoming Publications

Submitted Publications

Work in Progress

"Philosophy of Computer Science", invited chapter for The Handbook of Formal Philosophy, edited by Sven Ove Hansson and  Vincent F. Hendricks (Springer). "Distributed morality". "What is bioinformation?" "Avatars: Their Philosophical Meaning".
	Guest editor (with Dave Ward) of a special issue of Minds and Machines, dedicated to The Construction of Personal Identities Online.
	Guest editor (with Mariarosaria Taddeo) of a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology, dedicated to e-Trust. Here is the cfp.