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Artificial agents and their moral natureIn Peter Kroes (ed.), The moral status of technical artefacts. 2014.Artificial agents, particularly but not only those in the infosphere Floridi (Information – A very short introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010a), extend the class of entities that can be involved in moral situations, for they can be correctly interpreted as entities that can perform actions with good or evil impact (moral agents). In this chapter, I clarify the concepts of agent and of artificial agent and then distinguish between issues concerning their moral behaviour vs. issues …Read more
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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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Internet: un exposé pour comprendre-un essai pour réfléchirFlammarion. 1998.Le première partie porte sur la structure physique d'Internet et sa nature numérique, et une brève histoire du réseau. La seconde partie est centrée sur Internet en tant que véhicule de l'information considérée comme un bien marchand.
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Epilogue: the ethics of the information society in a globalized worldIn The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2010.The previous chapters have provided a detailed overview of the variety of ethical challenges posed by the development of ICTs. By way of conclusion, in this epilogue I would like to invite the reader to look into the possible future of Information and Computer Ethics. More specifically, I shall try to forecast how the convergence of two fundamental trends of our times, globalization and the development of the information society, may interact with the ethical problems analysed in this book. The …Read more
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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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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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L’evoluzione dei mass media: come coesisteranno internet e la TV?In Dopo la “Cattiva Maestra” TV il miglior amico è il PC. 1996.
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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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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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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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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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