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Personal Assistant:
Mrs Penny Driscoll,
email: milly34@mac.com

Email addresses:
l.floridi@herts.ac.uk
luciano.floridi@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Academic address at UH:
Department of Philosophy
School of Humanities
University of Hertfordshire
de Havilland Campus
Hatfield
Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK

Academic address in Oxford:
St Cross College
St. Giles
Oxford OX1 3LZ, UK


UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics


Current Positions and Associations

Research Chair in Philosophy of InformationDepartment 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
Senior Member, Faculty of Philosophy, 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
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

Member, Executive Board of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT)

President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) 

Recent Publications

InfosferaInfosfera - 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.

Le Parole della Filosofia

(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


2009

Invited speaker, Balliol College PPE Society (Oxford, 4 November, 2009).

Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Filosofi og Idehistorie (Aarhus, 8-10 November, 20109).

Invited speaker, Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Paris Descartes University (Paris, 19 November, 2009).

UNESCO meeting (Paris, 19-20 November, 2009).

UNESCO meeting (London, 23 November, 2009).

Invited spekaer, ICT that makes the difference (Brussels, 23-25 November, 2009).

Invited speaker, UNESCO International Forum on Civilization and Peace (Seoul, South Korea, 2-3 December 2009).

Barwise Lecture, 2009 Pacific Division Annual Meeting (New York Marriott Marquis, New York, 27-30 December, 2009).





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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).




Information - A Very Short Introduction, checking the proofs...

Infosfera. the Italian translation by Massimo Durante of some of my essays on information and computer ethics has now been published.

Invited contribution to the BBC online program Digital Revolution.

I will deliver the "distinguished lecture" at  the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), as part of the workshop organised by the Lorentz Conference Center, Leiden University (Leiden, 8-12 February, 2010).

I will deliver the Barwise Lecture at the APA Meeting on the 27th of December 2009. Read more...

La révolution numérique considérée comme une quatrième révolution,
par Luciano Floridi, French translation by Patrick Peccatte

How information becomes knowledge
The article addresses the problem of how semantic information can be upgraded to knowledge.

Read more...


Forthcoming Publications

Semantic Information and the Network Theory of Account, Synthese.

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).

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

Network Ethics: Information and Business Ethics in a Networked Society.

Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth.

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".

2010

Third International Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, Brussels University (Brussels, Belgium, November 2010).

E-CAP 2010 Conference, Technical University Munich (Munich, Germany, June/July 2010).

NA-CAP 2010 Conference, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 24-26 July, 2010).

Invited speaker, Conference on Privacy and Confidentiality, University of Leeds (Leeds, 17-19 June, 2010).

Keynote speaker, Third Multidisciplinary Workshop on Identity in the Information Society (IDIS 10) (Rome, Italy, 26-28 May, 2010).

Invited speaker, Metaphilosophy Conference, Yale University (Yale, April, 2010).

Second International Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey, May 2010).

Invited speaker, Balliol College (Oxford, 11 March 2010).

Invited speaker, Cognitive Science Research Seminar Series, University of Sussex (University of Sussex, 9 March 2010).

Invited speaker, 5th Annual Digital Assembly Conference, Futures of Digital Studies 2010 (University of Florida, February 25-27).

Invited speaker, workshop on "The Philosophy of the Information and Computing Sciences", Lorentz Conference Center, Leiden University (Leiden, 8-12 February, 2010).

2011

E-CAP 2011 Conference, Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark, June/July 2011).

2012

IACAP-AISB 2012 World Congress, University of Reading (Reading, UK, date tba).

2013

IACAP 2013 First International Meeting, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey, date tba).