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

	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.
"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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Grant for the Ethical WP for the the project "Recreational Drugs’ European Network: an ICT prevention service addressing the use of novel compounds in vulnerable individuals", funded by the Second Programme of Community Action in the Field of Health 2008-2013

Newsweek (Japan) has published my article on   cloud computing (in Japanese). This is the original text, in English.

The Italian newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore" has published my interview on "the fourth revolution" in Nova. Available here (in Italian). An interview for RAI 3  during the Science Festival in Genoa. Available here (in Italian).

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Forthcoming Publications

Submitted Publications

Work in Progress

"A Metric for Possible Worlds Distances". "The Cooptation of Scepticism". "Distributed morality". "What is bioinformation?" "Avatars: Their Philosophical Meaning". (with Hughes, J. F.), "Malfunctioning Software".
	Guest editor (with Mariarosaria Taddeo) of a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology, dedicated to e-Trust.
	Guest editor (with Elizabeth Black and Allan Third) of a special issue of Synthese, dedicated to "The Nature and Scope of Information".