Publications

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Articles

| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002 | 2001 | 1999 |

2007

L. Floridi, "A look into the future impact of ICT on our lives", The Information Society. 2007, 23(1): 59-64. [pdf]
An abridged and modified version was published in TidBITS.

M. Turilli, "Ethical Protocols Design", Ethics and Information Technology. 2007, 9(1): 49-62. [pdf]

2006

P. Allo, "Local Information and Adaptive Consequence", Logique & Analyse, 2006, 49(196): 461-488. [pdf]

P. Allo and L. Floridi, "Logic and the Philosophy of Information", Logique & Analyse, 2006, 49(196). [pdf]

S. Sequoiah-Grayson, "Information Flow and Impossible Situations", Logique & Analyse. 2006, 49(196): 371-398. [pdf]

L. Floridi, "Information Technologies and the Tragedy of the Good Will", Ethics and Information Technology. 2006, 8(4): 253-262. [pdf]

L. Floridi, "Four Challenges for a Theory of Informational Privacy", Ethics and Information Technology. 2006, 8(3): 109-119. [pdf]

2005

L. Floridi, "The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy", Ethics and Information Technology. 2005, 7(4): 185-200. [pdf]

M. Taddeo - L. Floridi, "Solving the symbol grounding problem: a critical review of fifteen years of research", Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. 2005, 17(4): 419-445. [pdf]

L. Floridi, "Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game", Minds and Machines. 2005, 15(3-4): 415-444. [pdf]

L. Floridi, "The Philosophy of Presence: From Epistemic Failure to Successful Observation", Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments. 2005, 14(6): 656-667. [pdf]

G. M. Greco - G. Paronitti - M. Turilli - L. Floridi, "How to Do Philosophy Informationally", Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence. 2005, 3782: 623-634. [pdf]

2004

G. M. Greco - L. Floridi, "The Tragedy of the Digital Commons", Ethics and Information Technology. 2004, 6(2): 73-81. [pdf]

L. Floridi - J W Sanders, "On the morality of artificial agents", Minds and Machines. 2004, 14(3): 349-379. [pdf]

2002

L. Floridi - J W Sanders, "Computer Ethics: Mapping the Foundationalist Debate", Ethics and Information Technology. 2002, 4(1). [pdf].

L. Floridi, "Information Ethics: An Environmental Approach to the Digital Divide", Philosophy in the Contemporary World. 2002 9(1): 39-46. [pdf].

2001

L. Floridi, "Ethics in the Infosphere", The Philosophers' Magazine. 2001, 6: 18-19. [pdf]

L. Floridi - J W Sanders, "Artificial Evil and the Foundation of Computer Ethics", Ethics and Information Technology. 2001, 3(1): 55-66. [pdf]
[CEPE 2000 Conference video]

1999

L. Floridi - J W Sanders, "Entropy as Evil in Information Ethics", Etica Politica, special issue on Computer Ethics. 1999, I(2).

L. Floridi, "Information Ethics: On the Theoretical Foundations of Computer Ethics", Ethics and Information Technology. 1999, 1(1): 37-56. [pdf]

Special Issues

L. Floridi (Guest editor with Julian Savulescu), Ethics and Information Technology (Springer), special issue on Information Ethics: Agents, Artifacts and New Cultural Perspectives. 2006

L. Floridi (guest editor), Minds & Machines (Kluwer), special issue on The Philosophy of Information. 2003.

L. Floridi (guest editor), Etica & Politica (Department of Philosophy, University of Trieste), special issue on Computer Ethics. November, 1999.

Chapters

L. Floridi - J W Sanders, "Internet Ethics: the Constructionist Values of Homo Poieticus", invited chapter in The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives, edited by Robert Cavalier. SUNY, 2003.

L. Floridi - J W Sanders, "On the Morality of Artificial Agents", in Marturano A. and Introna L. (eds.), Ethics of Virtualities - Essays on the limits of the bio-power technologies. Culture Machine, Athlone Press, London. [pdf]

Books

L. Floridi (editor), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information (Oxford - New York: Blackwell, 2003). [html].

L. Floridi, Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction (London - New York: Routledge, 1999).
[webliography] | [chapter five] | [section "Turing vs. Super-Turing: a Defence of the Church-Turing Thesis"] | [electronic book ]

L. Floridi (consultant editor), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy on CD-ROM (London - New York: Routledge, 1999) [html].

Theses

Miguel Sicart, "Computer Games, Players, Ethics", PhD Dissertation, IT University of Copenhagen, a.y. 2006. Supervisors: Espen Aarseth Charles Ess [pdf]

Will Harwood, "Ethics and Artificial Life", MSc Project, The University of Oxford, a.y. 2000-1. Supervisors: L. Floridi and J. Sanders [pdf]