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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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248Mature information societies—a matter of expectationsPhilosophy and Technology 29 (1): 1-4. 2016.Scholars and policy makers often refer to the “information society”. And yet, it is more accurate to speak of societies, each different, some of which may qualify as information ones at different levels of maturity. Through exploration of the concepts of expectations, education and innovation, this paper explores what it means for an information society to be more or less mature than others, and the impact of this on the ongoing digital revolution.
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387Mapping the foundationalist debate in computer ethicsEthics and Information Technology 4 (1): 1-9. 2002.The paper provides a critical review of the debate on the foundations of Computer Ethics (CE). Starting from a discussion of Moor’s classic interpretation of the need for CE caused by a policy and conceptual vacuum, five positions in the literature are identified and discussed: the “no resolution approach”, according to which CE can have no foundation; the professional approach, according to which CE is solely a professional ethics; the radical approach, according to which CE deals with absolute…Read more
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302Network ethics: information and business ethics in a networked societyJournal of Business Ethics 90 (S4). 2009.This article brings together two research fields in applied ethics - namely, information ethics and business ethics- which deal with the ethical impact of information and communication technologies but that, so far, have remained largely independent. Its goal is to articulate and defend an informational approach to the conceptual foundation of business ethics, by using ideas and methods developed in information ethics, in view of the convergence of the two fields in an increasingly networked soc…Read more
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15The responsibilities of online service providers (edited book)Springer. 2016.This volume focuses on the responsibilities of online service providers (OSPs) in contemporary societies. It examines the complexity and global dimensions of the rapidly evolving and serious challenges posed by the exponential development of Internet services and resources. It looks at the major actors – such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo! – and their significant influence on the informational environment and users’ interactions within it, as well as the responsibilities and liabilitie…Read more
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484Logical fallacies as informational shortcutsSynthese 167 (2). 2009.The paper argues that the two best known formal logical fallacies, namely denying the antecedent (DA) and affirming the consequent (AC) are not just basic and simple errors, which prove human irrationality, but rather informational shortcuts, which may provide a quick and dirty way of extracting useful information from the environment. DA and AC are shown to be degraded versions of Bayes’ theorem, once this is stripped of some of its probabilities. The less the probabilities count, the closer th…Read more
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277La Filosofia dell'informazione e i suoi problemiIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (2). 2005.
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190Library information science (LIS) should develop its foundation in terms of a philosophy of information (PI). This seems a rather harmless suggestion. Where else could information science look for its conceptual foundations if not in PI? However, accepting this proposal means moving away from one of the few solid alternatives currently available in the field, namely, providing LIS with a foundation in terms of social epistemology (SE). This is no trivial move, so some reasonable reluctance is to…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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247Infraethics—on the conditions of possibility of moralityPhilosophy and Technology 30 (4): 391-394. 2017.Information and communication technologies (ICTs) place a crucial emphasis on accountability, intellectual property rights, neutrality, openness, privacy, transparency, and trust; they provide a platform or infrastructure of social norms and expectations. Developing the concept of infraethics, this paper argues that all societies need rules for effective co-ordination and collaboration of their infrastructures, and that their design and maintenance is one of the crucial challenges for our own wo…Read more
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231Information qualityPhilosophy and Technology 26 (1): 1-6. 2013.Information, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) are critical for most developed post-industrial societies. It follows, therefore, that the better the quality of the information exchanged, the more likely such societies and their members may prosper. But what is information quality (IQ) exactly? This paper discusses current definitions, problems and approaches to IQ and the question of how we should, and could, evaluate IQ in the future.
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267Informational privacy and its ontological interpretationAcm Sigcas Computers and Society 36 (3): 1. 2006.The article provides an outline of the ontological interpretation of informational privacy based on information ethics. It is part of a larger project of research, in which I have developed the foundations of ideas presented here and their consequences. As an outline, it is meant to be self-sufficient and to provide enough information to enable the reader to assess how the approach fares with respect to other alternatives. However, those interested in a more detailed analysis, and especially in …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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53Information ethics: agents, artefacts and new cultural perspectives (review)Ethics and Information Technology 8 (4): 155-156. 2006.
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101The trade in pounds for pixels could be heading undergroundThe Philosophers' Magazine 38 (38): 17-17. 2007.
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493Information ethics: an environmental approach to the digital dividePhilosophy in the Contemporary World 9 (1). 2002.As a full expression of techne, the information society has already posed fundamental ethical problems, whose complexity and global dimensions are rapidlyevolving. What is the best strategy to construct an information society that is ethically sound? This is the question I discuss in this paper. The task is to formulate aninformation ethics that can treat the world of data, information, knowledge and communication as a new environment, the infosphere. This information ethics must be able to addr…Read more
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2182Information ethics, its nature and scopeAcm Sigcas Computers and Society 36 (2): 21-36. 2006.In recent years, “Information Ethics” (IE) has come to mean different things to different researchers working in a variety of disciplines, including computer ethics, business ethics, medical ethics, computer science, the philosophy of information, social epistemology and library and information science. Using an ontocentric approach, this paper seeks to define the parameters of IE and thereby increase our understanding of the moral challenges associated with Information Communication Technologie…Read more
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226Information: a very short introductionOxford University Press. 2010.This book helps us understand the true meaning of the concept and how it can be used to understand our world.
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537Information ethics: on the philosophical foundation of computer ethicsEthics and Information Technology 1 (1). 1999.The essential difficulty about Computer Ethics' (CE) philosophical status is a methodological problem: standard ethical theories cannot easily be adapted to deal with CE-problems, which appear to strain their conceptual resources, and CE requires a conceptual foundation as an ethical theory. Information Ethics (IE), the philosophical foundational counterpart of CE, can be seen as a particular case of environmental ethics or ethics of the infosphere. What is good for an information entity and the…Read more
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