---------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the IEG newsletter. ---------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: - Congratulations - Publications - Forthcoming - Lectures - Conferences - Research Reports - Website Upgrade ---------------------------------------------------------- Congratulations: ---------------------------------------------------------- - Gian Maria Greco, Junior Research Associate at the IEG, has successfully defended his doctoral thesis in philosophy entitled "Alan Turing's Contributions to the Philosophy of Information" (supervisors: Luciano Floridi and Jeff Sanders). The Ph.D. has been awarded by the Department of Philosophy, University of Lecce (Italy), with the final evaluation of "excellent" (the highest mark in the Italian Ph.D. programme). - Gianluca Paronitti, Junior Research Associate at the IEG, has successfully defended his doctoral thesis in philosophy entitled "The Generality of the Concept of Simulation" (supervisors: Luciano Floridi and Roberto Cordeschi). The Ph.D. has been awarded by the Department of Logic and Epistemology, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy), with the final evaluation of "excellent" (the highest mark in the Italian Ph.D. programme). The digital and "the print on demand" Italian version of the Thesis can be accessed from here: http://padis.uniroma1.it/getfile.py?recid=274 ---------------------------------------------------------- Publications: ---------------------------------------------------------- - Luciano Floridi, "Is Information Meaningful Data?", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2005, 70.2. http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/iimd.pdf - Luciano Floridi, Jeff Sanders, "Internet Ethics: the Constructionist Values of Homo Poieticus", invited chapter for The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives, edited by Robert Cavalier (SUNY: 2005). http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/iecvhp.pdf - Farsi (Persian) Translation by Hamid R. Jamali of L. Floridi, "LIS as Applied Philosophy of Information: a Reappraisal", Library Trends, 2004, 52.3, 658-665. http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/lapi-farsi.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------- Forthcoming: ---------------------------------------------------------- - Luciano Floridi, "La filosofia dell'informazione e i suoi problemi", Iride. http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/lfdieisp.pdf - Luciano Floridi, "Information Ethics", Computers & Society, ACM. - Luciano Floridi, "Information Ethics: its Nature and Scope", invited chapter for Moral Philosophy and Information Technology, edited by Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005/6). http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/iens.pdf - Luciano Floridi, "Presence: From Epistemic Failure to Successful Observability", Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/ppefso.pdf - Luciano Floridi, "Per una filosofia dell'informazione", Epistemologia. http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/pufdi.pdf - Luciano Floridi, “La Filosofia dell’Informazione”, invited article for Introduzione alla Filosofia, a book edited by Franca D’Agostini (Zanichelli). http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/zanichelli.pdf - Luciano Floridi, "Information", invited contribution to the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, (ESTE) edited by Carl Mitcham (Macmillan). http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/este.pdf - Polish translation of L. Floridi "Information Ethics: On the Philosophical Foundation of Computer Ethics", Ethos, the journal of the John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin (August-September 2005). - Greek translation of L. Floridi, Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction (London - New York: Routledge, 1999). - Chinese translation of L. Floridi (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information (Oxford - New York: Blackwell, 2004). - Gian Maria Greco, Gianluca Paronitti, Matteo Turilli and Luciano Floridi, "How To Do Philosophy Informationally", in «Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence», special volume edited by K.-D. Althoff, A. Dengel, R. Bergmann, M. Nick and Th. Roth-Berghofer. - Luciano Floridi, Gian Maria Greco, Gianluca Paronitti, Mariarosaria Taddeo and Matteo Turilli have been invited to write the following entries for the Gallarate Encyclopedia of Philosophy:Analogical-Digital, Computer, Computer Science, Cybernetics, History of logical and digital machines, Information Ethics, Internet, Machine-Mechanism (all in Italian). - Luciano Floridi, Gian Maria Greco and Gianluca Paronitti have been invited to write the following entries for F. D’Agostini (ed.), Introduction to Philosophy, Zanichelli, Bologna 2005: Environmental Ethics, Hume's Law, Identity of Indiscernibles, Infosphere, Information Ethics, Levels of Abstraction, Medical Ethics, Ockham's Razor (all in Italian). ---------------------------------------------------------- Lectures: ---------------------------------------------------------- - Luciano Floridi, Invited speaker, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Oporto, Portugal, 16-19 June, 2005). - Luciano Floridi, Invited lecturer, Workshop on Computer Ethics, Programme for Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy, NTNU (Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet) (Trondheim, Norway, 6-8 June, 2005). - Luciano Floridi, Invited lecturer, Université du Québec (Montréal, Canada, 10-12 May, 2005) - Luciano Floridi, Invited lecturer, Graduate Seminar, Universita' degli Studi di Salerno (Salerno, 5 April, 2005) - Luciano Floridi, Invited speaker, Workshop on the philosophy of information, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 8-10 March 2005). - Luciano Floridi, Invited lecturer, Filosofisk institutt, NTNU (Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet) (Trondheim, Norway, 1-5 February 2005). - Luciano Floridi, Invited speaker, Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminar and Philosophy Society, University of Hertfordshire (de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, 27 January 2005). - Luciano Floridi, Invited speaker, University College London (London, 20 January 2005). ---------------------------------------------------------- Conferences: ---------------------------------------------------------- - Luciano Floridi, "An Interpretation of Informational Privacy and of its Moral Value", paper accepted for the 7th Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries conference (CEPE 2005) (University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, July 17-19, 2005), forthcoming in the Proceedings of the conference. - Luciano Floridi, Invited speaker, third European Computing and Philosophy Conference, E-CAP 2005, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mälardalen University (Mälardalens Högskola, Västerås, Sweden, 2-4 June, 2005). - Luciano Floridi, Invited speaker, national conference in IT applications in philosophy (Fiuggi, 21 February, 2005). ---------------------------------------------------------- Research Reports ---------------------------------------------------------- - M. Taddeo and L. Floridi "Solving the Symbol Grounding Problem: a Critical Review of Fifteen Years of Research" http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/research_reports/ieg_rr210605.pdf - G. M. Greco, G. Paronitti, M. Turilli and L. Floridi "How To Do Philosophy Informationally" http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/research_reports/ieg_rr040904.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------- Website ---------------------------------------------------------- The IEG website has been updated and a new section "Talks and Presentations" has been added. http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/presentations/presentations.html IEG