Coordinator
Luciano Floridi
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Luciano Floridi (Laurea Rome "La Sapienza", MPhil and PhD Warwick, MA Oxon) is Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, where he holds the Research Chair in Philosophy
of Information in the School of Humanities and the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer
Ethics. In Oxford, he is Fellow by Special Election of St Cross College, Research Associate
and Fellow in Information Policy, OUCL, and Senior Member of the Faculty of Philosophy. His
primary research interest is the philosophy of information and information ethics. For more
information see the Wikipedia entry.
Junior Research Associates
Christoph Salge
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PhD student in computer science and philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, where he is also a member of the Adaptive Systems Research Group. He holds a German Diplom in Computer Science from the Braunschweig University of Technology. His research interests include the information theoretic aspects of social interaction, information theory based behaviour generation and computational intelligence in games.
Christoph Schulz
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PhD student in philosophy at University of Hertfordshire. He holds a German Diplom in physics
with University of Muenster (Germany) and is software engineer with the German Research Centre
for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). His research interests include causality and its relevance
to the philosophy of information.
Senior Research Associates
Patrick Allo
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Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation (Flanders, Belgium) and member of the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Brussels Free University (VUB). Current research project: "Reasoning between theories. A general framework for doing epistemology with logic.". Doctoral thesis "On Logics and Being Informative. Pluralism, Locality, and Feasibility" defended at Brussels University (2007) while working as a Research Assistant of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO - Vlaanderen) on the project "The Cognitive Dynamics of Information Handling -- Design of a Multi-Modal and Adaptive Formalism".
Liz Black
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Liz is a postdoctoral research assistant in the Robotics Research Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. Her primary research interests are in multi-agent systems and the use of argumentation theory as a mechanism for dealing with inconsistencies that might occur either internally within an agent's knowledge or between multiple agents. Liz is currently investigating persuasive strategies that an agent can use to select arguments to present in order to convince another agent to commit to a particular course of action.
Hilmi Demir
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Assistant Professor Philosophy in Bilkent University, Turkey. He received his BA and MA in philosophy from Bogazici University, Turkey,
and his Ph.D. from Indiana University. His project aims to solve the problem of misrepresentation by drawing ideas from Shannon's
mathematical theory of communication and Dretske's 1981 informational theoretic approach.
Mark Jago
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ARC postdoctoral research fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, where he is chief investigator on the project, 'Rationality and Resource
Bounds in Logics for Intentional Attitudes'. Before that, he wrote his thesis, "Logics for Resource-Bounded Agents" (2006), with Natasha
Alechina at Nottingham. His interests include metaphysics, logic, formal epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics and
cognitive science.
Giuseppe Primiero
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MA in Philosophy at the Universities of Palermo (Italy) and Leiden (the Netherlands); PhD in Philosophy at Palermo University (Italy). Post-Doctoral Researcher of the FWO (Flemish Research Foundation) at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at Ghent University (Belgium). Current Research project: "A judgemental theory of collective modal knowledge with applications". His research interests include logical modelling of dynamic reasoning within alternative logics (constructive, adaptive, non-monotonic and interactive), especially with respect to the epistemic description of knowledge, belief contents and the flow of information.
Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Formal Epistemology Project at the Centre for Logic at the University of Leuven, Research Member of the GPI at the University of Hertfordshire, and a Visiting Research Fellow at TiLPS, Tilburg University. BA (HONS) and MPhil (thesis: 'Two-Dimensional Semantics and Doxastic Reports) at The University of Sydney, where he was supervised by David Braddon-Mitchell and Michael McDermott. BPhil and DPhil at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (thesis: 'Information and Logical Equivalence'), where he was supervised by Timothy Williamson and Luciano Floridi. His present research project focus on Procedural Reasoning and Dynamic Information Structures.
Miguel Sicart
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He received PhD in Computer Game Studies from the IT University of Copenhagen in December 2006. He is currently assistant professor in game design at the IT University. He is interested in computer game ethics, political games, and game design and development theory.
Sonja Smets
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She holds a 'Rosalind Franklin Research Fellowship' at both the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Mathematics & Natural Sciences at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Smets obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2001, where she worked on the logical foundations of quantum physics. Her current research programme ranges over Logic (in particular non-classical logics, including non-monotonic logics, belief revision, modal logic, dynamic epistemic logic, quantum logic); Multi-agent Systems; Formal Epistemology; Philosophy of Quantum Physics, Quantum Information and Computation.
Mariarosaria Taddeo
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Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire, department of Philosophy where she works on Informational Conflicts and their ethical implications. Her primary research interests are Philosophy of Information, Information and Computer Ethics, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agents Systems.
Matteo Turilli
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Research associate at the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC). He helds a DPhil in Computer Science from the University of Oxford. He graduated in philosophy at University
of Padua with an MA thesis on the philosophy of information. His resaerch focuses on the ethical implications of software design, specifically for what concerns the translation of ethical requirements into software specifications. Matteo's main interests are in parallel and distributed computing, software design, formal methods and applied ethics.
David Ward
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He is a AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. His current research focuses on the implications of online environments for philosophical theories of personal identity. Prior to this, he wrote a doctoral thesis on the relationship between perceptual consciousness and agency at the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Andy Clark.
Correspondents
Ken Herold
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Director of Library Information Systems, Burke Library, Hamilton
College. He holds a Master's degree in library and information studies from
Berkeley. Areas of research: philosophy of librarianship; librarianship, library
science and information science as applied philosophy of information; a Buddhist
theory of information; information ethics.
Gang Liu
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Deputy Director of Philosophy of Science and Technology
Division, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is
Chinese and was educated in Beijing (PhD in philosophy). His primary interests
are in philosophy of information and societal dimensions of information
technology (including information ethics, media policy, etc.).
Johnny H. Søraker
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PhD research fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, working in an
international research project on "Evaluation of the Cultural Quality of New Media". His research
within this group focuses on implications of Virtual Reality regarding ontology (VR influencing our
conception of reality), epistemology (the relation between actions, beliefs and desires in VR) and
ethics (influence of VR on moral norms and sentiments). Søraker has also been working on Philosophy
of mind and A.I. (Master in Philosophy) and published and given numerous lectures related to
computer ethics, including Internet governance, Information ethics and virtual reality.
Past Members
Mario De Cristofaro
Weiwen Duan
Charles Ess
Gian Maria Greco
Hykel Hosni
Jesse F. Hughes
Duncan Langford
Gianluca Paronitti
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Jeff Sanders
Christian Sandvig
Antonino Vaccaro
