Luciano Floridi

Luciano Floridi

Luciano Floridi (born November 16, 1964 in Rome ) is an Italian philosopher .

His main areas of work are information ethics and the philosophy of information . Practical focus lies in the ethical design of global networked communication systems such as the World Wide Web and in the theory of autonomous agents in the research field of artificial intelligence .

Floridi deals extensively with the work and effects of Alan Turing . He systematically assumes a profound cultural and practical change that is closely interwoven with the progress of our information and communication technology.

He designs a philosophical method and a philosophical system that allow appropriate work with the phenomena of this change and within the changed working conditions of a changed world.

Life

Floridi was born the son of a general practitioner. He studied philosophy - first until 1988 at La Sapienza University in Rome and then at the University of Warwick (Great Britain). He went to the University of Warwick to study with Susan Haack . He received his doctorate in Warwick in 1990. After teaching and research assignments at various universities, Floridi was appointed to the research chair for information philosophy at the University of Herfordshire in 2008 and the UNESCO chair for information ethics and computer ethics, which he held until 2014. He was until 2017 also a Fellow at St Cross College of the University of Oxford . Since 2013 he has been Professor of Philosophy and Information Ethics at the University of Oxford. Since 2017 he has been Director of the Digital Ethics Lab at the University of Oxford.

Since 2014, Floridi has been a member of a free advisory board with a total of eight external experts from European countries that Google Inc. founded to implement the ECJ ruling of May 13, 2014 on the right to be forgotten . The advisory board is to advise the search engine operator on the development of a deletion guide.

Floridi is married to the Oxford neuroscientist Anna Christina Nobre (called Kia Nobre), whom he met in 2000.

Works

Monographs

• Skepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology - A Study in the Metalogical Fallacies. Brill, Leiden 1996, ISBN 978-90-04-10533-1 .
• Internet - An Epistemological Essay. Il Saggiatore, Milano 1997.
• Philosophy and Computing. An Introduction. Routledge, London / New York 1999, ISBN 978-0-415-18024-5 .
• Sextus Empiricus, The Recovery and Transmission of Pyrrhonism. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 978-0-195-14671-4 .
• Information (Very Short Introductions). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-199-55137-8 .
• The Philosophy of Information. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-199-23239-0 .
• The Ethics of Information. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-964132-1 .
• The Fourth Revolution. How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-960672-6 .
  • The 4th revolution. How the infosphere changes our lives , translated from the English by Axel Walter, Suhrkamp Verlag , Berlin 2015. 314 pp. ISBN 978-3-518-58679-2 .

Editing

• The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information. Blackwell, Oxford 2003, ISBN 978-0-631-22919-3 .
• The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-71772-4 .
• together with Mariarosaria Taddeo: The Ethics of Informational Warfare. Springer, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-04134-6 .
• together with Phyllis Illari: The Philosophy of Information Quality. Springer, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-07120-6 .
• Protection of Information and the Right to Privacy. A New Equilibrium? Springer, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-05720-0 .
• The Onlife Manifesto. Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era. Springer, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-04092-9 .

literature

• Hilmi Demir (Ed.): Luciano Floridi's Philosophy of Technology. Critical Reflections. Springer, Dordrecht 2012, ISBN 978-94-007-4292-5 .
• Tim Grafe: Luciano Floridi. In: Information Philosophy, April 2015, pp. 36–41

Web links

• Luciano Floridi's website
• Interview for the American Philosophical Association - Philosophy and Computing Newsletter (PDF; 1.4 MB)
• Biography, in English
• Biography, in Italian, Cervelli in Fuga (Rome: Accenti, 2001) (PDF; 18 kB)
• Where are we in the philosophy of information? The Bergen Podcast
• Interview for SuchThatCast - Philosophers' Podcast
• Floridi's Information Ethics, video of a workshop at NA-CAP
• Should mass media always be «neutral»? , Conversation with Benno Lichtsteiner, in: NZZ , August 8, 2015, p. 24
• We need a new Definition of Reality , Interview with Luciano Floridi, in FAZ , October 11, 2015 (online)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luciano Floridi, Turing's three philosophical lessons and the philosophy of information , in: Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 2012 (370), pp. 3536-3542; doi : 10.1098 / rsta.2011.0325 ( online )
2. ↑ Introductory: Luciano Floridi, The Information Society and Its Philosophy: Introduction to the Special Issue on “The Philosophy of Information, Its Nature, and Future Developments” , in: The Information Society, 2009 25 (3), pp. 153–158; doi : 10.1080 / 01972240902848583 ( online ( memento of the original from March 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ). 
3. ↑ Alexandra Borchardt, in: Misses Brain & Mister Mind, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung Plan W Issue 7, December 2016, p. 9.
4. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung Plan W Edition 7, December 2016, p. 10.
5. ↑ Tim Grafe: Luciano Floridi. In: Information Philosophy, April 2015, p. 36.
6. ↑ Google is looking for balance for deletion requests. , In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 10, 2014.
7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung Plan W Issue 7, December 2016, p. 8.
8. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung Plan W Edition 7, December 2016, p. 12.