About the Author

Academic Background
Luciano Floridi (Laurea 1988, Rome University “La Sapienza”, M.Phil. and Ph.D. Warwick, M.A. Oxford, was Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick (1990-1) and joined the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy in 1990 and the Faculty of Computation in 1999. He was Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Wolfson College, Oxford University (1990-4), Francis Yates Fellow in the History of Ideas at the Warburg Institute, London University (1994-95) and Research Fellow in Philosophy at Wolfson College (1994-01). In Oxford he held several full-time lecturerships in different Colleges.

He is currently Professor of Logic and Epistemology, a research position funded by the Università degli Studi di Bari, and in Oxford Senior Markle Fellow in Information Policy at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, and Coordinator of the Information Ethics research Group, Department of Computer Science.

He has held visiting appointments and professorships at the University of Bari, the University of Marburg, the University of Milan IULM, the University of Rome III, the University of Rotterdam, the Australian Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and the University of Lisbon.

Research Interests
Luciano Floridi’s major areas of research include philosophy of computing and information, computer ethics, epistemology, and the history and philosophy of scepticism. He has published over forty papers in these areas, in such journals as:

• Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
• British Journal for the History of Philosophy
• Ethics and Information Technology
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
• Journal of the History of Ideas
• Metaphilosophy
• Minds and Machines
• Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
• Social Epistemology
• Synthese
• Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie.

Previous Publications

• Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology - A Study in the Metalogical Fallacies (Leiden: Brill, 1996)
• Internet - An Epistemological Essay (Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1997, French translation: Internet: un exposé pour comprendre—un essai pour réfléchir, Paris: Flammarion, 1998)
• Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction (London – New York: Routledge, 1999; e-book 2001 (Hungarian Greek and Chinese translations forthcoming)
• Sextus Empiricus, The Recovery and Transmission of Pyrrhonism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
• Consultant editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

His works have been translated in Chinese, French, Greek, Hungarian and Portuguese.

Other Positions and Honours
In Oxford, Luciano Floridi has served as Chairman of the Board for the Preliminary Examination in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology Examiner for Preliminary Examination in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology and Assessor for Honour Moderations in Classics. He serves as international expert for information and computer ethics for UNESCO. He is elected member of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy and Computers, founding member of INSEIT (International Society for Ethics and Information Technology) and of IACAP (International Association for Computing and Philosophy) and member of the editorial board of Ethics and Information Technology. He is the founder and director of SWIF, the Italian e-journal of philosophy.

In 2001 he delivered the Herbert A. Simon Lecture on Computing and Philosophy, Computing and Philosophy Conference (CAP America), Carnegie Mellon University, August 11, 2001. In 2003, he will deliver the Alan Turing Lecture on Computing and Philosophy, University of Glasgow (CAP Europe), and the key-note lecture at CAP Australia.

Further information
Luciano Floridi’s homepage at http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/