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    How the role of computing is driving new genetics public policy
    Ethics and Information Technology 6 (1): 43-53. 2004.
    In this paper we will examine some ethical aspects of the role that computers and computing increasingly play in new genetics. Our claim is that there is no new genetics without computer science. Computer science is important for the new genetics on two levels: from a theoretical perspective, and from the point of view of geneticists practice. With respect to , the new genetics is fully impregnate with concepts that are basic for computer science. Regarding , recent developments in the Human Gen…Read more
  •  2
    Editorial
    Ethics and Information Technology 4 (2): 97-99. 2002.
  •  3
    A Short Journey Through the Unknown Life of Leadership Studies
    Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 5 (3): 326-331. 2014.
  •  7
    Introduction
    with Jana Vizmuller-Zocco
    Ethics and Social Welfare 13 (1): 1-17. 2019.
    Technological unemployment is a subset of historically recurring problems related to jobs in general and unemployment in particular, which are now of global importance. The typical difficulties of...
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    The future of computer ethics 12 years after: in memory of Alessandro D'Atri
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 10 (3): 124-130. 2012.
  • Editorial: On IRIE Vol. 16
    International Review of Information Ethics 16 1-2. 2011.
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    A Debordian analysis of Facebook
    with Sergio Bellucci
    Acm Sigcas Computers and Society 39 (3): 59-68. 2009.
    Facebook, the second largest social network on the Web with around 60 million members, is one of the fastest-growing and best-known sites on the Internet today. With the U.S. now accounting for only about a third of all Facebook users, we are starting to see a gradual shift away from its original demographic of college-age users. Very surprisingly, indeed, in the past months Facebook has been literally invaded by Italians, Which is the reason for this huge success of Facebook? One of the reasons…Read more
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    Non-cognitivism in ethics
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2005.
  • Etica dei Media (Media Ethics)
    Epistemologia 1 (1). 2000.
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    The role of metaethics and the future of computer ethics
    Ethics and Information Technology 4 (1): 71-78. 2002.
    In the following essay, I will discuss D.Johnson's argument in her ETHICOMP99 KeynoteSpeech (Johnson 1999) regarding the possiblefuture disappearance of computer ethics as anautonomous discipline, and I will analyze somelikely objections to Johnson's view.In the future, there are two ways in whichcomputer ethics might disappear: (1) therejection of computer ethics as an aspect ofapplied ethics, or (2) the rejection ofcomputer ethics as an autonomous discipline.The first path, it seems to me, wou…Read more
  • Introduction: Ethics of Online Social Networks
    International Review of Information Ethics 16 3-5. 2011.
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    Bioinformatics and ethics
    Bioethics 23 (7): 385-393. 2009.
    ABSTRACT In this paper I analyse the ethical implications of the two main competing methodologies in genomic research. I do not aim to provide another contribution from the mainstream legal and public policy perspective; rather I offer a novel approach in which I analyse and describe the patent‐and‐publish regime (the proprietary regime) led by biologist J. Craig Venter and the ‘open‐source’ methodologies led by biotechnology Nobel laureate John Sulston. The ‘open‐source methodologies’ arose in …Read more
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  • Una nuova branca dellŋetica applicata
    Filosofia Oggi 3 (2). 1997.
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    Leadership and Language Games
    with Martin Wood and Jonathan Gosling
    Philosophy of Management 9 (1): 59-83. 2010.
    Process theories of leadership emphasize its relational nature but lack a substantial method of analysis. We offer an account of leadership as a language-game, employing the concepts of opaque context and propositional attitudes. Using established methods of linguistic analysis, we reformulate Weber’s understanding of charismatic leadership. A by-product of this approach is to limit the epistemological role of individual psychology in leadership studies, and to increase the relevance of linguist…Read more
  • Editorial
    with Jonathan Gosling
    Business Ethics: A European Review 14 (4): 319-322. 2005.
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    The Ethics of Online Social Networks–An Introduction
    International Review of Information Ethics 16 3-5. 2011.
  •  14
    Ethics, organizations and information systems
    with Alessandro D’Atri
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 8 (2). 2010.
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    Editorial
    Ethics and Information Technology 4 (2): 155-156. 2002.
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    When speed truly matters, openness is the answer
    Bioethics 23 (7): 385-393. 2009.
    In this paper I analyse the ethical implications of the two main competing methodologies in genomic research. I do not aim to provide another contribution from the mainstream legal and public policy perspective; rather I offer a novel approach in which I analyse and describe the patent-and-publish regime (the proprietary regime) led by biologist J. Craig Venter and the 'open-source' methodologies led by biotechnology Nobel laureate John Sulston. The 'open-source methodologies' arose in biotechno…Read more
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    Molecular biologists as hackers of human data: Rethinking IPR for bioinformatics research
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 1 (4): 207-215. 2003.
    This paper is the result of the research I undertook at Lancaster University with a Marie Curie Fellowship during the academic years 2000‐2002. The objective of this research was to study the limits and the challenges of the analogy between molecular geneticists’ work and hackers’ activities. By focusing on this analogy I aim to explore the different ethical and philosophical issues surrounding new genetics and its IPR regulations. The paper firstly will show the philosophical background lying b…Read more
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    Editorial
    with Jonathan Gosling
    Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 14 (4). 2005.