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Against digital ontology
Floridi, L. (2009)The paper argues that digital ontology (the ultimate nature of reality is digital, and the universe is a computational system equivalent to a Turing Machine) should be carefully distinguished from informational ontology ... -
An analysis of information visualisation
Chen, M.; Floridi, L. (2013-11)Philosophers have relied on visual metaphors to analyse ideas and explain their theories at least since Plato. Descartes is famous for his system of axes, and Wittgenstein for his first design of truth table diagrams. ... -
Artificial evil and the foundation of computer ethics
Floridi, L.; Sanders, J.W. (2001)Moral reasoning traditionally distinguishes two types of evil: moral (ME) and natural (NE). The standard v iew is that ME is the product of human agency and so includes phenomena such as war, torture and psychological ... -
Artificial intelligence's new frontier: artificial companions and the fourth revolution
Floridi, L. (2008)In this paper I argue that recent technological transformations in the life-cycle of information have brought about a fourth revolution, in the long process of reassessing humanity’s fundamental nature and role in the ... -
Big data and their epistemological challenge [editor letter]
Floridi, L. (2012-12)It is estimated that humanity accumulated 180 EB of data between the invention of writing and 2006. Between 2006 and 2011, the total grew ten times and reached 1,600 EB. This figure is now expected to grow fourfold ... -
The case for e-trust
Taddeo, M.; Floridi, L. (2010)Trust is generally understood as a relationship in which an agent (the trustor) decides to depend on another agent’s (the trustee) foreseeable behaviour in order to fulfil his expectations. It is a fundamental aspect of ... -
Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game
Floridi, L. (2005)This paper has three goals. The first is to introduce the “knowledge game”, a new, simple and yet powerful tool for analysing some intriguing philosophical questions. The second is to apply the knowledge game as an informative ... -
A defence of constructionism : philosophy as conceptual engineering
Floridi, L. (2011)This article offers an account and defence of constructionism, both as a metaphilosophical approach and as a philosophical methodology, with references to the so-called maker's knowledge tradition. Its main thesis is that ... -
A defence of informational structural realism
Floridi, L. (2008)This is the revised version of an invited keynote lecture delivered at the 1st Australian Computing and Philosophy Conference (CAP@AU; the Australian National University in Canberra, 31 October – 2 November, 2003). The ... -
Degenerate epistemology
Floridi, L. (2012-03) -
The enduring scandal of deduction: Is propositional logic really uninformative?
Floridi, L.; D'Agostino, M. (2009)Deductive inference is usually regarded as being “tautological” or “analytical”: the information conveyed by the conclusion is contained in the information conveyed by the premises. This idea, however, clashes with the ... -
Ethics in the Infosphere
Floridi, L. (2001)We call our society “the information society” because of the pivotal role played by information-intensives services. As a social structure, it has been made possible only by ICT (information and communication technologies). ... -
For a philosophy of information. (Per una filosofia dell'informazione)
Floridi, L. (2005) -
Four challenges for a theory of informational privacy
Floridi, L. (2006) -
From the Philosophy of AI to the Philosophy of Information
Floridi, L. (2004) -
How to Do Philosophy Informationally
Greco, G.M.; Paronitti, G.; Turilli, M.; Floridi, L. (2005) -
Hyperhistory and the philosophy of information policies
Floridi, L. (2012-06-01) -
Information closure and the sceptical objection
Floridi, L. (2014-04)In this article, I define and then defend the principle of information closure (pic) against a sceptical objection similar to the one discussed by Dretske in relation to the principle of epistemic closure. If I am successful, ... -
Information Ethics, its Nature and Scope
Floridi, L. (Cambridge University Press, 2008) -
Information ethics: an environmental approach to the digital divide
Floridi, L. (2002)