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29 June, 2009
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Here is the podcast of an interview with Nigel Warburton. You can listen to it by clicking on the link or visiting www.philosophybites.com and going to "Luciano Floridi on The Fourth Revolution". It is also available on iTunes.
Applicants to the philosophy postodc on "The Construction of Personal Identities Online" have been interviewed (more information on the project here).
The beginning of a new life: I have submitted The Philosophy of Information (OUP), a book that I had been writing since 1999.
I have submitted Information - A Very Short Introduction (OUP).
I have submitted Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (CUP).
I have been awarded a SSAHRI Vice Chancellor’s Grant to work on the project "The Ethics of Warfare in the Information Age".
During the academic year 2008-09, I shall be visiting the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, where I have been elected Gauss Professor. Read more...
I have been awarded an AHRC grant to work on the project "The Construction of Personal Identities Online". Read more...
I have been awarded the Barwise Prize by the American Philosophical Association. Read more... |
Current Positions and Associations |
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Research Chair in Philosophy of Information, Department of Philosophy, 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
Coordinator of the IEG, the Information, Ethics interdepartmental research Group, University of Oxford
Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy, OUCL (Dept. of Computer Science), University of Oxford
Senior Member, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)
Member, Executive Board of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT)
Area editor (computing and information), Synthese
Associate editor (philosophy of information), The Information Society
Member, Editorial Boards of Ethics and Information Technology | Minds and Machines | International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction | Telematics & Informatics | Identity in the Information Society |
Recent Publications |

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(with Gian Paolo Terravecchia) Le Parole della Filosofia Contemporanea (Roma: Carocci, 2009).
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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. |
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Editor, Philosophy of Computing and Information: 5 Questions
Automatic Press / VIP, 2008
Preface.
Interview. |
"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.
Artificial Intelligence’s New Frontier: Artificial Companions and the Fourth Revolution, Metaphilosophy, 2008, 39.4/5, 651-655.
The Method of Levels of Abstraction, Minds and Machines, 2008, 18.3, 303-329.
Understanding Epistemic Relevance, Erkenntnis, 2008, 69.1, 69-92.
A Defence of Informational Structural Realism, Synthese, 2008, 161.2, 219-253.
Trends in the Philosophy of Information, invited chapter for Handbook of Philosophy of Information, a book ed. by Pieter Adriaans and Johan van Benthem in the series Handbooks of the Philosophy of Science (Amsterdam - Oxford: Elsevier) 113-132.
A Subjectivist Interpretation of Relevant Information, in A. Pichler & H. Hrachovec (eds.) Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information,
Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in
Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 2007. Publications of the Austrian Ludwig
Wittgenstein Society *New Series*, vol 7. (D) Frankfurt a.M.: Ontos,
2008.
"Foundations of Information Ethics", invited chapter for Information and Computer Ethics, edited by H. Tavani and K. Himma (John Wiley and Sons, 2008), pp. 3-23.
Information Ethics, its Nature and Scope, invited chapter for Moral Philosophy and Information Technology, edited by Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 40-65.
"L'Informazione Biologica" invited chapter for Filosofia e Scienze della Vita, a cura di Giovanni Boniolo e Stefano Giaimo (Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2008), pp 198-219.
Data, article for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, editor in chief William A. Darity (Detroit: Macmillan, 2008). |
Forthcoming Publications |
The Philosophy of Information (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Information (Oxford: Oxford University Press), a volume for the Very Short Introductions series.
Editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
L'Etica dell'Informazione,
Italian translation by Massimo Durante of a collection of ten articles
on information and computer ethics I published since 1999 (Torino:
Giappichelli).
The Rediscovery and Posthumous Influence of Scepticism" in Richard Bett (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Informational Privacy, Computers & Society.
La Filosofia dell’Informazione, invited article for Introduzione alla Filosofia, a book edited by Franca D’Agostini (Zanichelli).
Chinese translation of The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information (Oxford - New York: Blackwell, 2004).
Chinese
translation in World Philosophy of section three of "Open Problems in
the Philosophy of Information", Metaphilosophy. This is the revised
version of The Herbert A. Simon Lecture on Computing and Philosophy
given at Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. [pdf]
(with
Gian Maria Greco, Gianluca Paronitti and Maria Rosaria Taddeo), several
entries for the new edition of the Enciclopedia della Filosofia di
Gallarate: analogico-digitale | cibernetica | etica informatica - etica dell'informazione | informatica | internet | macchina | macchine calcolatrici | |
Submitted Publications |
"Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth".
"Semantic Information and the Network Theory of Account".
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Work in Progress |
"Distributed morality".
"What is bioinformation?"
"Avatars: Their Philosophical Meaning".
(with Hughes, J. F.), "Malfunctioning Software".

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Guest editor (with Elizabeth Black and Allan Third) of a special issue of Synthese, dedicated to "The Nature and Scope of Information". |
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Current Speaking Engagements |
Invited speaker, Conference on Privacy and Confidentiality, University of Leeds (Leeds, 17-19 June, 2010).
Keynote speaker, first international E-Mental Health Summit. organised and hosted by the Trimbos-institute (the Dutch Netherlands Institute for Mental Health & Addiction), the Free University and the University of Amsterdam and endorsed by the International Society for Internet Intervention Research (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 15 October, 2010).
Invited speaker, workshop on "The Philosophy of the Information and Computing Sciences", Lorentz Conference Center, Leiden University (Leiden, 8-12 February, 2010).
Barwise Lecture, 2009 Pacific Division Annual Meeting (New York Marriott Marquis, New York, 27-30 December, 2009).
Invited speaker, Festival della Scienza di Genova (Genova, 23 October - 1 November 2009).
AP-CAP 2009 Conference, University of Tokyo (Tokyo, 1-2 October, 2009).
Gauss Lecture, Göttingen Academy of Sciences (Göttingen, Germany, 10 July, 2009).
E-CAP 2009 Conference, Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain, 2-4 July, 2009).
Gauss Professor, Göttingen Academy of Sciences (Göttingen, Germany, 5-24 April, 28 June-18 July).
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