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, Fellow by Special Election of St Cross College, and
Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy, OUCL, University of Oxford.
His primary research interest is the philosophy of information, including information ethics.
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Junior Research Associates
Mariarosaria Taddeo
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PhD student in Philosophy at University of Padua (Italy). She graduated in philosophy at the
University of Bari (Italy) with a MA thesis on the Symbol Grounding Problem. Research project for
the PhD: "Trust between epistemology and artificial distributed system". Mariarosaria is recipient
of the INSEIT Fellowship award for the academic year 2008-2009 under the supervision of
Prof. Luciano Floridi
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Matteo Turilli
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DPhil student in Computer Science at University of Oxford. He graduated in philosophy at University
of Padua with an MA thesis on the philosophy of information. His research concernes distributed
systems design and computer ethics. The title of his DPhil thesis is: "Integration of Ethical
Principles in the Practice of Software Engeneering".
Senior Research Associates
Patrick Allo
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Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Brussels Free University (VUB).
Current research project: "Models for Being Informative". 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".
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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He is currently an 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 at the Centre for
Logic and Philosophy of Science at Ghent University (Belgium). His research focuses on 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.
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
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Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2006 from the University of Quebec at Montreal and
the ComLab, Oxford University. She is currently EPSRC Research Fellow, School
of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, and Academic visitor,
ComLab, Oxford University. Her research interests include reasoning about information
flow in multi-agent systems, algebraic semantics for dynamic epistemic logic,
classical and quantum security protocols and computational linguistics.
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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Lecturer in Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Post-doctoral Researcher
at Flanders' Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium. Research
Topics: philosophy of quantum information, quantum logic and
quantum information theory, non-classical logics, applied logics,
belief revision and update.
Antonino Vaccaro
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Antonino Vaccaro is the Executive Director of the
Center for Ethics, Business and Economics
(CEBE) of the Catholic University of Lisbon, a Research Fellow in
the
Department of Engineering and Public Policy
at Carnegie Mellon University. Antonino's research
is focused on two main areas. The first is the ethical issues raised by the use
of virtual technologies in organizations and in the society. The second
concerns the impact of virtual tools on knowledge-based processes in
organizations. Antonino is recipient of the INSEIT Fellowship award for the
academic year 2008-2009 under the supervision of
Prof. Luciano Floridi
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Correspondents
Ken Herold email
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 email
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
Gianluca Paronitti
Gian Maria Greco
Mario De Cristofaro
Weiwen Duan
Charles Ess
Hykel Hosni
Jesse F. Hughes
Duncan Langford
Jeff Sanders
Christian Sandvig
