------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the IEG newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this issue: - IEG Members - Publications - Forthcoming - Conferences & Talks - Others ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IEG Members ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - The IEG memberships have been renewed for the academic year 2006/2007. The IEG Coordinators are: Luciano Floridi and Jeff Sanders. The IEG Junior Research Associates are: Patrick Allo, Hilmi Demir, Gian Maria Greco, Mark Jago, Gianluca Paronitti, Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson, Miguel Sicart, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Matteo Turilli. The IEG Correspondents are: Ken Herold, Gang Liu, Karen Mather, Johnny Soraker. For details on the IEG associates interests and mails see: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/people/people.html Welcome to our two new members: - Hilmi Demir and Mark Jago have joined the IEG research group as Junior Research Fellows for the a.y. 2006-7. Hilmi Demir is currently finishing his PhD at 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 is teaching fellow and PhD candidate at University of Nottingham. At the moment, he is working on how a defensible notion of epistemic possibility can help out formal models of belief, knowledge and information. Mail contacts and personal websites are available at: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/people/people.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Publications ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - L. Floridi: . "The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy", Ethics and Information Technology. 2005, 7.4, 185 - 200. . "Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game" republished in O. Pombo, A. Guerreiro, A. F. Alexandre (eds.), Enclicopedia e Hipertexto (Lisboa: Edicoes Duarte Reis), pp. 30-48. . "Telepresence", republished in L. Magnani and R. Dossena (ed.) Computing, Philosophy and Cognition (London: College Pubblications, 2005), pp. 37-56. . "Per una filosofia dell'informazione", Epistemologia 28, 2005, pp. 283-292. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Forthcoming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - L. Floridi: . "Global Information Ethics: The Importance of Being Environmentally Earnest", International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction. . "Informational Privacy", Computers & Society. . "Four Challenges for a Theory of Informational Privacy", Ethics and Information Technology. . "The Rediscovery and Posthumous Influence of Scepticism" in Richard Bett (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (Cambridge University Press) - Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson, "Information Flow and Impossible Situations", Logique et Analyse. - J. Soraker: . "The Moral Status of Information and Information Technologies - a relational theory of moral status", in S. Hongladarom and C. Ess (Eds.), Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing. . "The Role of Pragmatic Arguments in Computer Ethics", Ethics and Information Technology, special issue ed. by Ess, Greco and Thorseth. - M. Turilli, "Ethical Protocols Design", Ethics and Information Technology ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences & Talks ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - L. Floridi: . invited speaker, Departmental Seminar, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen (Bergen, Norway, 21 June 2006). "where are we in the philosopphy of information?" http://academicfeeds.friwebteknologi.org/index.php?id=28 . "The Scandal of Deduction", invited speaker, Workshop, Universita' degli Studi di Ferrara (Ferrara, 16-18 June, 2006). . "Relevant Information", invited speaker, Departmental Seminar, Universita' degli Studi di Siena (Siena, 14 June, 2006) . "Inforgs and the future of artificial agents", invited speaker, Workshop on "Ethical Agents", ALifeX conference (Bloomington, Indiana June 3, 2006). http://www.alifex.org/workshops/ . "Semantic Information", invited speaker, Workshop on "Information Theories", Fribourg University (Manchenwiler, Switzerland, 17-18 May, 2006) . invited speaker, Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg, Austria, August 5-11, 2007) http://www.alws.at . invited speaker, VII International Ontology Congress "From Plato?s Cave to the Internet: The Real and the Virtual" (San Sebastian, Spain, 2-6 October 2006) . invited seminar, Philosophy Department, Malardalen University (Vasteras, Sweden, September 2006) . "How ICT will shape our future", North-American Conference on Computing and Philosophy (NA-CAP 2006) (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 10-12 August, 2006) - K. Mather: . "Information Ethics as Limits on Behaviour in the Information Environment", ECAP, Trondheim, Norway, 22-24 June 2006. Abstract at: http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/ecap06/program/Mather.doc . Invited seminar,"Information Ethics: Extending Computer Ethics", Philosophy Department, University of Melbourne, August 23rd 2006. - J. Soraker "A Centralized Model for the Regulation of Anonymity Online", ECAP, Trondheim, Norway, 22-24 June 2006. Abstract at: http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/ecap06/program/Soraker.doc ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Others ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - L. Floridi: . Conference co-director, CEPE2007, San Diego, July 12-14, 2007, http://CEPE2007.sandiego.edu . Member of the programme committee of the Computer Ethics and Human Values (CEHV) track SAC 2007. - Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson: . has had his application for Confirmation of DPhil status formally approved by the Philosophy Graduate Studies Committee . has been elected as Chairperson of the Graduate Joint Consultative Committee by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. . has been appointed to the Organising Committee of the Jowett Philosophical Society, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sann1762/Jowett.html - J. Soraker: . has been named to the Editorial Board of "Etikk i Praksis" ["Ethics in Practice"] - a new, nordic journal of applied ethics, (Norwegian language). http://www.etikkipraksis.org/ . has been awarded of a three-month research grant from Programme for Applied Ethics, NTNU, Feb-Apr 2006 - Mariarosaria Taddeo has been accepted at three weeks Summer School in Logic and Formal Epistemology. The program of the courses can be found at: http://www.phil.cmu.edu/summerschool - Matteo Turilli has been appointed "Grid System Support Officer" at Oxford e-Research Centre (oerc), University of Oxford. http://www.oesc.ox.ac.uk/ - Welcome to the all the new members of the Mailing List. -- IEG - Information Ethics Group http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/