ARTICLES

Submitted

• The Synthetic Uninformative
• (with David Watson) Crowdsourced Science: Sociotechnical Epistemology in the e-Research Paradigm
• (with Corinne Cath) The Design of Internet Architecture and Human Rights

Accepted for publication (forthcoming)

• Tolerant Paternalism, Pro-ethical Design, and the Resolution of the Dilemma of Toleration, Science and Engineering Ethics
• (with Boudewijn de Bruin) The Ethics of Cloud Computing, Science and Engineering Ethics
• (with Brent Mittelstadt) The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts, Science and Engineering Ethics

2015

• The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: The Ethical Analysis of a Failure, and its Lessons, Ethics and Information Technology, 2015, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp 165-173.
• The Right to Be Forgotten – A Philosophical View
• (with Nir Fresco and Giuseppe Primiero) On Malfunctioning Software, Synthese,  2015, Volume 192, Issue 4, pp 1199-1220.
• Toleration and the Design of Norms, Science and Engineering Ethics,  2015, Volume 21, Issue 5, pp 1095-1123.

2014

• Perception and Testimony as Data Providers, Logique et Analyse, 2014, 57.226, 151-179.
• Information Closure and the Sceptical Objection, Synthese, 2014, 191.6, 1037-1050.

2013

• (with M. Chen) An Analysis of Information in Visualisation, Synthese, 2013, 190.16, 3421-3438.
• Distributed Morality in an Information Society, Science and Engineering Ethics, 2013, 19.3, 727-743.
• What is a Philosophical Question?, Metaphilosophy, 2013, 44.3, 195–221.

2012

• Turing’s Three Philosophical Lessons and the Philosophy of Information, Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions A, 2012, 370, 3536-3542.
• Semantic Information and the Network Theory of Account, Synthese, 2012, 184.3, 431-454.
• (with R. Borgo, A. Abdul-Rahman, F. Mohamed, P. W. Grant, I. Reppa, and M. Chen) An Empirical Study on Using Visual Embellishments in Visualization, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2012, 18.12, 2759-2768.

2011

• The Informational Nature of Personal Identity, Minds & Machines, 2011, 21.4, 549-566.
• A Defence of Constructionism: Philosophy as Conceptual Engineering, Metaphilosophy, 2011, 42.3, 282-304.

2010

• Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth, Erkenntnis, 2010, 74.2,147-175.
• The Philosophy of Information as a Conceptual Framework, replies to a collection of articles on my methodological work, special issue of Knowledge, Technology and Policy, 2010, 23.1-2.
• Information, Possible Worlds, and the Cooptation of Scepticism, Synthese, 2010, 175.1, 63-88.
• Network Ethics: Information and Business Ethics in a Networked Society, Journal of Business Ethics, 2010, 90.4, 649-659.
• The Philosophy of Information: Ten Years Later, replies to a collection of articles on my work on the philosophy of information, special issue of Metaphilosophy, 2010, 41.3, 402–419.

2009

• (with M. Turilli) 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 M. Taddeo and M. Turilli) 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.
• Against Digital Ontology, Synthese, 2009, 168.1, 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 M. D’Agostino) The Enduring Scandal of Deduction. Is Propositional Logic really Uninformative?, Synthese, 2009, 167.2, 271-315.

2008

• Artificial Intelligence’s New Frontier: Artificial Companions and the Fourth Revolution, Metaphilosophy, 2008, 39.4/5, 651-655.
• Information Ethics: A Reappraisal, Ethics and Information Technology, 2008, 10.2-3, 189-204.
• 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.

2007

• In defence of the veridical nature of semantic information, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007, 3.1, 31-41.
• Global Information Ethics: The Importance of Being Environmentally Earnest, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 2007, 3.3, 1-11.
• A Look into the Future Impact of ICT on Our Lives, The Information Society, 2007, 23.1, 59-64. An abridged and modified version was published in TidBITS.
• (with M. Taddeo) A Praxical Solution of the Symbol Grounding Problem, Minds and Machines, 2007, 17.4, 369-389.

2006

• The Logic of Being Informed, Logique et Analyse, 2006, 49.196, 433-460.
• Information Technologies and the Tragedy of the Good Will, Ethics and Information Technology, 2006, 8.4, 253-262.
• Four Challenges for a Theory of Informational Privacy, Ethics and Information Technology, 2006, 8.3, 109-119.

2005

• The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy, Ethics and Information Technology, 2005, 7.4, 185–200.
• Per una filosofia dell’informazione, Epistemologia 2005, 28, 283-292. Por una filosofía de la información, Spanish translation by Jordi Vallverdú, special issue of the Spanish journal Anthropos dedicated to ‘Philosophy and Computing’, edited by Jordi Vallverdú.
• Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game, republished in O. Pombo, A. Guerreiro, A. F. Alexandre (eds.) Enclicopédia e Hipertexto (Lisboa: Edições Duarte Reis, 2005), 30-48.
• Presence: From Epistemic Failure to Successful Observation, republished in L. Magnani and R. Dossena (ed.) Computing, Philosophy and Cognition (London: College Publications, 2005), 37-56.
• Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game, Minds and Machines 2005, 15. 3-4, 415-444.
• Is Information Meaningful Data?, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2005, 70.2, 351-370.
• Presence: From Epistemic Failure to Successful Observation, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 2005, 14.6, 656-667.
• (with M. Taddeo) The Symbol Grounding Problem: a Critical Review of Fifteen Years of Research, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 2005, 17.4, 419–445.
• La filosofia dell’informazione e i suoi problemi, Iride, 2005, 18.45, 291-312.
• (with G. M. Greco, G. Paronitti and M. Turilli) How to Do Philosophy Informationally, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence 3782, 623–634, 2005.

2004

• On the Logical Unsolvability of the Gettier Problem, Synthese, 2004, 142.1, 61-79.
• Outline of a Theory of Strongly Semantic Information, Minds and Machines, 2004, 14.2, 197-222.
• Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information, Metaphilosophy, 2004, 35.4, 554-582.  Revised version of The Herbert A. Simon Lecture on Computing and Philosophy given at Carnegie Mellon University in 2001.
• Afterword – LIS as Applied Philosophy of Information: a Reappraisal, Library Trends, 2004, 52.3, 658-665.
• (with G. M. Greco) The Tragedy of the Digital Commons, Ethics and Information Technology, 2004, 6.2, 73-82.
• (with J. W. Sanders), On the Morality of Artificial Agents, Minds and Machines, 2004, 14.3, 349-379.
• (with J. W. Sanders) Mapping the Foundationalist Debate in Computer Ethics, a revised version of  “Computer Ethics: Mapping the Foundationalist Debate”, Ethics and Information Technology 2002 (4.1), 1-9, published in the second edition of Spinello R. and Tavani H. (eds.), Readings in Cyberethics (Boston: Jones and Bartlett), 81-95.

2003

• Two Approaches to the Philosophy of Information, Minds and Machines, 2003, 13.4, 459-69.
• On the Intrinsic Value of Information Objects and the Infosphere, Ethics and Information Technology 2003, 4.4, 287-304.

2002

• On Defining Library and Information Science as Applied Philosophy of Information, Social Epistemology 2002, 16.11, 37-49.
• (with J. W. Sanders) Computer Ethics: Mapping the Foundationalist Debate, Ethics and Information Technology 2002, 4.1, 1-9.
• What is the Philosophy of Information?, Metaphilosophy, 2002 33.1/2. Reprinted in T. W. Bynum and J. H. Moor (eds.), CyberPhilosophy: The Intersection of Philosophy and Computing (Oxford – New York: Blackwell, 2003). Chinese translation, World Philosophy (2002), 4.

2001

• (with J. W. Sanders) Artificial Evil and the Foundation of Computer Ethics, Ethics and Information Technology 2001, 3.1, 55-66.Electronic version in Etica & Politica, 2000, 2.2.

1999

• Information Ethics: On the Theoretical Foundations of Computer Ethics, Ethics and Information Technology 1999, 1.1, 37-56. Abridged French translation in L’Agora, 1998, 5.4, 19-20.
• Logica e Pensiero Visivo, Iride 1998, 241998, 343-358.
• (with J. W. Sanders) Entropy as Evil in Information Ethics, Etica & Politica, special issue on Computer Ethics, I.2. Oxford University, Computing Laboratory, Programming Research Group Technical Report TR-5-00.

1997

• “Scepticism and Animal Rationality”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 1997, 79, 27-57.

1996

• “Followers of French Fashions: Neo-Cartesianism and Analytic Epistemology, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1996, 61, 1996, 633-639.

1995

• Cupiditas Veri Videndi: Pierre De Villemandy’s Dogmatic vs. Cicero’s Sceptical Interpretation of ‘Man’s Desire to Know’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 1995, 3.1, 1995, 29-56.
• The Diffusion of Sextus Empiricus’ Works in the Renaissance, Journal of the History of Ideas 1995, 56.11995, 63-85.
• L’Epistemologia Analitica e la Natura della Giustificazione Epistemica, Epistemologia 1995, 18, 233-268.
• The Internet: Which Future for Organised Knowledge—Frankenstein or Pygmalion?, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 1995, 43, 261-274. Also published in The Journal of the Association for Systematic Philosophy 1995, 1, 33-41; in The Information Society 1996, 9, 5-16; in The Electronic Library 1996, 14.1, 43-52; in What We Do Not Know, “a selection of choice excerpts from the debates, exchanges and controversies raised by the UNESCO Philosophy Forum”, edited by Ayyam Sureau (Paris: Gallimard, 1996). Italian translation in Bollettino della Società Filosofica Italiana 1995, 155, 21-35. French translation in Horizons Philosophiques 1996, 6.2, 1-18. Portuguese translation in Revista de História das Ideias 1996, 18, 419-437.

1994

• Scepticism and the Search for Knowledge: a Peirceish Answer to a Kantian Doubt, Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society 1994, 30, 543- 573
• Objective Knowledge’: the Disappearance and Revaluation of ‘Knowledges’ from John Sergeant to Karl Popper, Nouvelles de la République des Lettres 1994, 1, 97-122.
• The Problem of the Justification of a Theory of Knowledge: (2) Morphology and Diagnosis, Journal for General Philosophy of Science/Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 1994, 25, 17-49.

1993

• The Problem of the Justification of a Theory of Knowledge: (1) Some Historical Metamorphoses, Journal for General Philosophy of Science/Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 1993, 24, 205-233.

1992

• The Grafted Branches of the Sceptical Tree: Noli altum sapere and Henri Estienne’s Latin Edition of Sexti Empirici Pyrrhoniarum Hypotyposeon libri III, Nouvelles de la République des Lettres 1992, 11, 127-166.

1991

• The Problem of the Justification of a Theory of Knowledge, Rivista di Filosofia 1991, 81, 319-335. In Italian.