Monday, December 15, 2014

Luciano Floridi



Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is the Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute, Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, and Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy of the Department of Computer Science. Floridi is currently a member of Google Advisory Council on “the right to be forgotten” and of the Advisory Board of the Internet and Society Institute recently launched by Tencent. His research concerns primarily the Philosophy of Information, Information and Computer Ethics, and the Philosophy of Technology. Other research interests are Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic, and the History and Philosophy of Scepticism.  He has published over 150 papers in many anthologies and peer-reviewed journals and eight books. His most recent book is the book I read, The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality. Floridi's lifetime project that he has been working on since the late nineties is a four volume project called The Foundations of the Philosophy of Information. It investigates the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its ethical consequences. This is a map of how Floridi's books are related to one another in his efforts to complete his tetralogy and developing the philosophy of information as a new and independent area of research.


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