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| Birthname | Luciano Floridi |
| Date of Birth | November 16, 1964 |
| Birth Place | Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | |
| Occupation | Western Philosopher |
| Biography | Best known for ideas in Philosophy of Information, Information Ethics, Infosphere |
Luciano Floridi is a mathematician and philosopher who was born on November 16, 1964 in Rome, Italy. He graduated from Rome University La Sapienza in 1988 with a degree in philosophy. Floridi then obtained his masters in philosophy in 1989 and PhD degree in 1990 from from the University of Warwick. His career accomplishments include development and refinement of the realm of information ethics and philosophy[1].
Contents
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.
- Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy & Technology (Springer).
- 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 of the Ethics Strategic Panel of the British Computer Society (BCS).
Philosophy
Floridi focuses his work primarily on Computer Ethics and Information Technology, which is relatively an uncommonly studied field.[2] Floridi coined the phrase "Philosophy of Information" (P.I) in the 1990s, a term that refers to an integration of ethical and philosophical ideals of computer science, information technology, and philosophy. Additionally, Floridi defines information by noting 4 phenomena that work in harmony: information about something (e.g. a train timetable), information as something (e.g. DNA, or fingerprints), information for something (e.g. algorithms or instructions), and information in something (e.g. a pattern or a constraint).[3]
Books
Forthcoming
- The Fourth Revolution - The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Our Lives (Oxford University Press, under contract).
Most Recent
- The Philosophy of Information (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- Information – A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010)
- The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (edited for Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Previous
- Sextus Empiricus, The Recovery and Transmission of Pyrrhonism (Oxford University Press, 2002)
- Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction (Routledge, 1999)
- Internet – An Epistemological Essay (Il Saggiatore, 1997)
- Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology - A Study in the Metalogical Fallacies (Brill, 1996)
- Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information (edited for Blackwell, 2004).[4]
External Links
See Also
References
- ↑ http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/About.html
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Floridi
- ↑ http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pci/downloads/introduction.pdf
- ↑ http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/Introduction.html
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