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8Ethical Guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 Digital Tracking and Tracing SystemsIn Josh Cowls & Jessica Morley (eds.), The 2020 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab, Springer Verlag. pp. 89-95. 2021.The World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11th March 2020, recognising that the underlying SARS-CoV-2 has caused the greatest global crisis since World War II. In this chapter, we present a framework to evaluate whether and to what extent the use of digital systems that track and/or trace potentially infected individuals is not only legal but also ethical.
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8Saving Human Lives and Rights: Recommendations for Protecting Human Rights When Adopting COVID-19 Vaccine PassportsIn Francesca Mazzi (ed.), The 2022 Yearbook of the Digital Governance Research Group, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 117-130. 2023.The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused social and economic devastation. As the milestone of two years of ‘living with the virus’ approaches, governments and businesses are attempting to develop means of reopening society whilst still protecting public health. However, developing interventions – particularly technological interventions – that find a safe, socially acceptable, and ethically justifiable balance between these two seemingly opposing demands is extremely challenging. There is n…Read more
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7Book reviews (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1): 155-183. 1999.The Cambridge Companion to Humanism. Jill Kraye. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xvii + 320. £35.00 hbk, £12.95 pbk. ISBN 0–521–43038–0, 0–521–43624–9. Scepticism in the History of Philosophy ‐ A Pan‐American Dialogue. Edited by Richard H. Popkin. Dordrecht‐Boston‐London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. pp. xxii + 285, hbk, £99.00, ISBN 0–7923–3769–7 Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe. David B. Ruderman. Yale Univ…Read more
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6Computers: information ethics and the foundation of computer ethicsIn Jesper Ryberg, Thomas S. Petersen & Clark Wolf (eds.), New Waves in Applied Ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. 2007.
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6Čtvrtá revoluceKarolinum Press. 2019.Vývoj informačních a komunikačních technologií (ICT) radikálně proměňuje nejen to, jak rozumíme světu a jak vzájemně komunikujeme, ale také způsob, jakým se díváme sami na sebe a jak chápeme svou vlastní povahu, existenci a odpovědnost. Rozšíření ICT tak představuje čtvrtou revoluci v dlouhém procesu přehodnocování základní podstaty a role lidstva ve vesmíru: jakožto lidstvo netvoříme nehybný střed vesmíru (kopernikovská revoluce), nelišíme se nijak mimořádně od zbytku zvířecího světa (darwinovs…Read more
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5Information technologyIn Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: The Evolution of IT Understanding IT IT in the Information Society Conclusion References and Further Reading.
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5Replies to Broy, Gabriel, Grunwald, Hagengruber, Kriebitz, Lütge, Max, Misselhorn, and RehbeinPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 128 (2): 378-393. 2021.
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5Le parole della filosofia contemporanea (edited book)Carocci. 2009.Quali sono le parole usate più frequentemente nella riflessione filosofica contemporanea? Il testo, nel rispondere a questa domanda, si propone come uno strumento agile, ricco e aggiornato, rivolgendosi sia a coloro che si avvicinano per la prima volta alla filosofia, sia a coloro che hanno già alcune competenze o sono esperti in una determinata area del sapere filosofico.
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4InformationIn The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information, Blackwell. 2004.The prelims comprise: Introduction Semantic Information The Mathematical Theory of Communication Some Philosophical Approaches to Semantic Information Conclusion Acknowledgments Some Web Resources.
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3The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2016.This book presents cutting edge research on the new ethical challenges posed by biomedical Big Data technologies and practices. 'Biomedical Big Data' refers to the analysis of aggregated, very large datasets to improve medical knowledge and clinical care. The book describes the ethical problems posed by aggregation of biomedical datasets and re-use/re-purposing of data, in areas such as privacy, consent, professionalism, power relationships, and ethical governance of Big Data platforms. Approach…Read more
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2Il problema della giustificazione di una teoria della conoscenzaRivista di Filosofia 82 (2): 319-335. 1991.
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2The ethics of biomedical big data (edited book)Springer. 2016.This book presents cutting edge research on the new ethical challenges posed by biomedical Big Data technologies and practices. ‘Biomedical Big Data’ refers to the analysis of aggregated, very large datasets to improve medical knowledge and clinical care. The book describes the ethical problems posed by aggregation of biomedical datasets and re-use/re-purposing of data, in areas such as privacy, consent, professionalism, power relationships, and ethical governance of Big Data platforms. Approach…Read more
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2How information technology is changing our ontologyOntology Studies: Cuadernos de Ontología. 2008.
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1La sociedad del conocimiento= The society of the knowledgeContrastes: Revista Cultural 44 109-112. 2006.
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1This paper is divided into two parts. In the first, I shall briefly analyse the phenomenon of “big data”, and argue that the real epistemological challenge posed by the zettabyte era is small patterns. The valuable undercurrents in the ocean of data that we are accumulating are invisible to the computationally-naked eye, so more and better technology will help. However, because the problem with big data is small patterns, ultimately, the game will be won by those who “know how to ask and answer …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 (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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