Last updated 2 March, 2010
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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
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)
Member of the Ethics Strategic Panel of the British Computer Society (BCS). |
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). | 
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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. |
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Current Speaking Engagements2010
Universita' Statale di Milano (Milan, 25-26 February, 2010).
Invited
speaker, 5th Annual Digital Assembly Conference, Futures of Digital
Studies 2010 (University of Florida, 27 February, 2010).
Invited speaker, Cognitive Science Research Seminar Series, University of Sussex (University of Sussex, 9 March 2010).
Invited speaker, Balliol College (Oxford, 11 March 2010).
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival (Oxford, 20-28 March 2010) .
Invited speaker, Department of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University (New Haven, 21 April, 2010).
Invited speaker, Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics and Technology, Yale University (Yale, 22 April, 2010).
Invited speaker, Metaphilosophy Conference, Yale University (Yale, 23 April, 2010).
Second International Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, Bilkent University (Ankara, 21-22 May 2010).
Keynote
speaker, Third Multidisciplinary Workshop on Identity in the
Information Society (IDIS 10) (Rome, 26-28 May, 2010).
Invited speaker, Conference on Privacy and Confidentiality, University of Leeds (Leeds, 17-19 June, 2010).
NA-CAP 2010 Conference, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 24-26 July, 2010).
E-CAP 2010 Conference, Technical University Munich (Munich, Germany,4-6 October 2010).
Invited
speaker, Workshop on Bayesian Argumentation Theory, Department of
Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Lund University (Lund, Sweden 22-23 October 2010).
Third International Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, Brussels University (Brussels, Belgium, 18-19 November 2010).
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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). |
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| (editor) The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
You can order it now. |
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Forthcoming Publications
| Guest editor (with Elizabeth Black and Allan Third) of a special issue of Synthese, dedicated to "The Nature and Scope of Information". |
Information, Possible Worlds, and the Cooptation of Scepticism, Synthese.
Network Ethics: Information and Business Ethics in a Networked Society, Journal of Business Ethics.
Semantic Information and the Network Theory of Account, Synthese.
Levels of Abstraction and the Turing Test, Kybernetes.
Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges, in Yorick Wilks, (ed.), Close Engagements with Artificial Companions. Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues (John Benjamins Publishing Company).
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).
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 PublicationsSemantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth.
Information, Possible Worlds, and the Cooptation of Scepticism.
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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. |
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