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Introduction: a new perspective on privacyIn Bart van der Sloot, Luciano Floridi & Linnet Taylor (eds.), Group Privacy, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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The post-Westphalian Nation State developed by becoming more and more an Information Society. However, in so doing, it progressively made itself less and less the main information agent, because what made the Nation State possible and then predominant, as a historical driving force in human politics, namely ICTs, is also what is now making it less central, in the social, political and economic life of humanity across the world. ICTs fluidify the topology of politics. They do not merely enable bu…Read more
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Replies to Broy, Gabriel, Grunwald, Hagengruber, Kriebitz, Lütge, Max, Misselhorn, and RehbeinIn Thomas Buchheim, Volker Gerhardt, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Isabelle Mandrella, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer & Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (eds.), Philosophisches Jahrbuch 2/2021, Verlag Karl Alber. pp. 378-393. 2021.
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Il diavolo e la pietra: l'analisi del realismo in Michael DummettIn Piergiorgio Donatelli, Luciano Floridi & Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica (eds.), Filosofia Analitica 1993 Bilanci E Prospettive, Lithos. 1993.
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How to account for informationIn Jordi Vallverdú (ed.), Thinking machines and the philosophy of computer science: concepts and principles. 2010.In Floridi (2005), I argued that a definition of semantic information in terms of alethically-neutral content–that is, strings of well-formed and meaningful data that can be additionally qualified as true or untrue (false, for the classicists among us), depending on supervening evaluations–provides only necessary but insufficient conditions: if some content is to qualify as semantic information, it must also be true. One speaks of false information in the same way as one qualifies someone as a f…Read more
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The fourth revolution in our self-understandingIn Ruth Hagenbruger & Uwe V. Riss (eds.), Philosophy, computing and information science, Pickering & Chattoo. 2014.Science has two fundamental ways of changing our understanding. One may be called extrovert, or about the world, and the other introvert, or about ourselves. Three scientific revolutions in the past had great impact both extrovertly and introvertly. In changing our understanding of the external world, they also modified our conception of who we are, that is, our self-understanding. The following chapter discusses the fourth revolution.
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Perception and testimony as data providersIn Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan & Thomas Mark Dousa (eds.), Theories of information, communication and knowledge: a multidisciplinary approach, Springer. 2014.
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Blackwell guide to the philosophy of information and computing (edited book)Blackwell. 2002.This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing.
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Infosfera. Etica e filosofia nell'età dell'informazione InfosphereGiappichelli. 2009.Infosfera di Luciano Floridi investe un ampio spettro di questioni, relative alla natura dell'informazione, degli agenti artificiali, della responsabilità nei sistemi multiagenti, dell'etica informatica, del ruolo dell'informazione nel ragionamento e nella logica, etc., nella consapevolezza che ci troviamo ad interagire in un ambiente intelligente ed ubiquo costituito di informazioni, che è già diventato più ampio delle rappresentazioni del mondo concepite in termini di cyberspazio o di spazio r…Read more
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The undergrowth of science: delusion, self-deception and human frailty (review)Times Literary Supplement. 2001.
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Il diavolo e la pietra: l'analisi del realismo in Michael DummettIn Piergiorgio Donatelli, Luciano Floridi & Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica (eds.), Filosofia Analitica 1993 Bilanci E Prospettive, Lithos. 1993.
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