Prof Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford

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Prof Luciano Floridi, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is the Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute, Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, and Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy of the Department of Computer Science. Outside Oxford, he is Adjunct Professor of the Department of Economics, American University, Washington D.C. He is an international expert on the philosophy and ethics of information, two research areas he has contributed to establish.

His most recent books are: The Fourth Revolution – How the infosphere is reshaping human reality (Oxford University Press, 2014), The Ethics of Information (Oxford University Press, 2013), The Philosophy of Information (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (editor, Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Information: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is Editor in Chief of Philosophy & Technology and of the Philosophical Studies book series (Springer).

He is currently member of Google Advisory Board on “the right to be forgotten”. In 2012-13, he was Chairman of EU Commission’s “Onlife Initiative” project.

Among his recognitions, he has been elected Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow by the European University Institute; awarded the Cátedras de Excelencia Prize by the University Carlos III of Madrid, was the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics and Gauss Professor of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. He is a recipient of the APA’s Barwise Prize, the IACAP’s Covey Award, and the INSEIT’s Weizenbaum Award. He is an AISB and BCS Fellow, and a Fellow of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences.

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