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Luciano Floridi (Laurea, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, M.Phil. and Ph.D. University of Warwick, M.A. University of Oxford) is one of Italy's most influential thinkers in the fields of philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, and ethics. Carl Mitcham (ed), Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (Macmillan, 2005), entry on Italian Perspectives.He currently holds the research chair in philosophy of information at the University of Hertfordshire, Department of Philosophy. He is also Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford University, and Associate Professor of Logic at the Università degli Studi di Bari. He is best known for his pioneering work on two new areas of philosophical research, which he has contributed to establish: the philosophy of information and information ethics.He is the founder and coordinator of the IEG, an interdepartmental research group on the philosophy of information at the University of Oxford, and the founder and director of SWIF, the Italian e-journal of philosophy (http://www.swif.it). His works have been translated into Chinese, French, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Polish and Portuguese and Spanish.

Early career Floridi was born in Rome in 1964 and studied at Rome University La Sapienza (Laurea, first class with distinction, 1988), where he was originally educated as a classicist and a historian of philosophy. He soon became interested in analytic philosophy and wrote his tesi di laurea (MA thesis) for Rome University La Sapienza in philosophy of logic, on Michael Dummett's anti-realism. He obtained his MPhil (1989) and his PhD (1990) from the University of Warwick, working in epistemology and philosophy of logic with Susan Haack (who was his PhD supervisor) and Michael Dummett. During his graduate and postdoctoral years, he moved across the standard topics in analytic philosophy in search of a new methodology, in order to approach contemporary problems from a perspective that would be heuristically powerful and intellectually enriching when dealing with lively philosophical issues. During his graduate studies, he began to distance himself from classic analytic philosophy. In his view, the analytic movement had lost its propelling force and was a retreating paradigm. For this reason, he worked on pragmatism (especially Charles Peirce) and foundationalist issues in epistemology. He was appointed Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick in 1990-1. He joined the Faculty of Philosophy of the of Oxford] in 1990 and the OUCL (Oxford's Department of Computer Science) in 1999. He was Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Wolfson College Oxford University (1990-4), Francis Yates Fellow in the History of Ideas at the Warburg Institute, University of London (1994-95) and Research Fellow in Philosophy at Wolfson College Oxford University (1994-01). During these years in Oxford, he held several lecturerships in different Colleges. Between 1994 and 1996 he also held a post-doctoral research scholarship at the Department of Philosophy, University of Turin. Between 2001 and 2006 he was Markle Foundation Senior Research Fellow in Information Policy at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University. In 2002, he was appointed Associate Professor of Logic at the Università degli Studi di Bari and in 2006 he became Fellow by Special Election of St Cross College, Oxford University.

In his first book, Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology, he was already looking for a concept of subject-independent knowledge close to what he now identifies as semantic information. During his postdoctoral studies, as a Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, he began to embrace a more Neo-Kantian philosophy, which led him to spend one academic year in Marburg, where he focussed on Ernest Cassirer's version of Neo-Kantianism. He begun working exclusively on what is now known as the philosophy of information during his years as Research Fellow, still at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Philosophy According to Floridi, it is necessary to develop a constructionist philosophy, where design, modelling and implementation replace analysis and dissection. Shifting from one set of tasks to the other, philosophy could then stop retreating into the increasingly small corner of its self-sustaining investigations, and hence re-acquire a wider view about what really matters. Slowly, Floridi has come to characterise his constructionist philosophy as an innovative field, now known as the philosophy of information, the new area of research that has emerged from the computational/informational turn.

Floridi approaches the philosophy of information from two perspectives:

the purely theoretical perspective provided by logic and epistemology, and
the technical perspective provided by computer science, information technology and Humanities Computing.

For example, in the Preface of Philosophy and Computing, published in 1999, he wrote that the book was meant for two kinds of philosophy students: those who need to acquire some IT literacy in order to use computers efficiently, and those who may be interested in acquiring the background knowledge indispensable for developing a critical understanding of our digital age and hence beginning to work on that would-be branch of philosophy, the philosophy of information, which he hoped may one day become part of Philosophia Prima. Since then, PI, or PCI (Philosophy of Computing and Information), has become his major research interest.

Floridi's perspective is that there is a need for a broader concept of information processing and flowing, which includes computation, but not only computation. This new framework provides a very robust theoretical frame within which to place and make sense of the different lines of research that have taken shape since the fifties. The second advantage is PI’s diachronic perspective, a perspective on the development of philosophy through time. In his view, PI gives us a much wider and more profound perspective on what philosophy might have actually been doing.

Currently, Floridi is working on two areas of research: computer ethics (see the entry information ethics) and the concept of information. Key to this area of work is the claim that ICT (Information and Communications Technology) is radically re-engineering or re-ontologizing the infosphere.

Books

Augmented Intelligence — A Guide to IT for Philosophers. (in Italian) Rome: Armando, 1996.
Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology - A Study in the Metalogical Fallacies. Leiden: Brill, 1996.
Internet - An Epistemological Essay. (in Italian and in French) Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1997.
Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction. London/New York: Routledge, 1999.
Sextus Empiricus, The Recovery and Transmission of Pyrrhonism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information. (editor) Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
The Philosophy of Information (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Information (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming), a volume for the Very Short Introduction series.

(Editor) A Philosophical Introduction to Computer Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

(Editor) Philosophy of Computing and Information: 5 Questions (Automatic Press / VIP, forthcoming).

iPod and Videos

Relevant Information, the SIRLS/Thomson Scientific ISI Samuel Lazarow Memorial lecture, University of Arizona, USA, February 8 2007. View the Presentation while you listen to the podcast. Download Lecture (MP3, 52MB). Download Question and Answer Session following the Lecture (MP3, 39MB). Quicktime Streaming Video (requires the Quicktime Plug-in, broadband recommended). Windows Video (.wmv format, requires IE and Media Player version 9 or higher for streaming). iPod Compatible (.m4v, 375MB, download only).

A Look into the Future of ICT North American Computing and Philosophy Conference, August 10-12 2006, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.

Where are we in the philosophy of information?, June 21 2006, University of Bergen, Norway.

The Logic of Information, presentation, discussion, Télé-université (Université du Québec), 11 May 2005, Montréal, Canada.

From Augmented Intelligence to Augmented Responsibility, North American Computing and Philosophy Conference, January 24 2002, Oregon State University, USA.

Artificial Evil and the Foundation of Computer Ethics, presentation, discussion, CEPE2000 Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, July 14-16, 2000, Dartmouth College, USA.