------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the IEG newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this issue: - IEG Members - Publications - Forthcoming - Conferences - Talks - Others ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEG Members ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Patrick Allo, Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson and Miguel Sicart have joined the IEG research group as Junior Research Fellows. Mail contacts and brief profiles are available at: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/people/people.html - Karen Mather and Johnny Søraker are the new IEG correspondents. Their mail contacts and brief profiles are available at: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/people/people.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publications ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - L. Floridi "Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game", Minds and Machines, Volume 15, Numbers 3-4, 2005, pp. 415-444. Abstract: 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 test to discriminate between conscious (human) and conscious-less agents (zombies and robots), depending on which version of the game they can win. And the third is to use a version of the knowledge game to provide an answer to Dretske’s question “how do you know you are not a zombie?”. http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/caatkg.pdf - L. Floridi "The Philosophy of Presence: From Epistemic Failure to Successful Observation", Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, Volume 14, Number 6, 2005, pp. 656-667. Abstract: The paper introduces a new model of telepresence. First, it criticizes the standard model of presence as epistemic failure, showing it to be inadequate. It then replaces it with a new model of presence as successful observation. It further provides reasons to distinguish between two types of presence, backward and forward. The new model is then tested against two ethical issues whose nature has been modified by the development of digital information and communication technologies, namely pornography and privacy, and shown to be effective. http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/ppefso.pdf - L. Floridi "Privacy in the Google Era", The Philosopher's Magazine 33, 2006. http://www.philosophersnet.com/magazine/article.php?id=979 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forthcoming ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - A. Natale, G. Paronitti, D. Donato, "Models of Knowledge for Virtual Scientific Experiments", to be published in Je-lks. http://www.je-lks.it/homepage.html - L. Floridi, "Information Technology", invited article for A Companion to Philosophy of Technology, edited by J.-K. Berg Olsen, S. A. Pedersen and V. F. Hendricks (Oxford - New York: Blackwell, forthcoming). - L. Floridi, "Computers", invited contribution to New Waves in Applied Ethics, edited by C. Wolf, J. Ryberg and T. Petersen (Ashgate: forthcoming) http://www.ashgate.com/subject_area/philosophy/new_waves_series.htm) - L. Floridi, "The Concept of Information", invited article for Information and Computer Ethics, edited by H. Tavani and K. Himma (John Wiley and Sons, forthcoming). - L. Floridi, Japanese translation of "Information Ethics, its Nature and Scope" to be published by NTT in a book on information/computer ethics. - L. Floridi, Spanish translation of "Information Ethics, its Nature and Scope" to be published in Isegoría. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conferences ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - The following papers have been accepted for the Fourth European Conference on Computing and Philosophy (E-CAP'06): . P. Allo, "Semantic Information and Logical Orthodoxy: The Case of Contradictions". . L. Floridi, "The Informational Nature of Reality" . G. Paronitti, "An Informational Approach to Causality". . S. Sequoiah-Grayson, "From Semantic Information to Psychological Information". . M. Sicart, "Beckham's (Virtual) Blade: On the Relevance of Information Ethics for (Computer) Games" . M. Sicart, "The Good Game: Defining the Ethics of Computer Games" . M. Taddeo, "Has the Symbol Grounding Problem been solved?". . M. Turilli, "Ethical Protocols". The conference will be held in Trondheim, Norway, on June 22-24 2006 http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/ecap06/ - P. Allo, "On When a Disjunction is Informative: Ambiguous Connectives and Pluralism". Paper accepted for the International Colloquium on (Anti-)Realisms, Logic and Metaphysics (Nancy, France, June 28 - July 1 2006) http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/poincare/colloques/AR06/eindex.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Talks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - L. Floridi Invited speaker . Seminar, Microsoft Research Laboratory (Cambridge, UK, 6 July 2006) . Workshop on "Information Theories", Fribourg University (Fribourg, Switzerland, 17-18 May, 2006) . Departmental Seminar, Computer Science Department, University of Essex (Colchester, UK, 21 April 2006) . Philosophy Department, Ferrara University (Ferrara, Italy, 23 March 2006) . SFI Meeting "Filosofia e Scienza" (Bari, Italy, 7 March 2006) . Departmental Seminar, OUCL (Oxford, UK, 2 March 2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Others ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Ken Herold has been recently named to the Editorial Board of Library Philosophy and Practice, an online, peer-review journal. http://libr.unl.edu:2000/LPP/editorialboard.htm - L. Floridi has been elected Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford, w.e.f. 1/10/06. - L. Floridi Member of the Programme Committee, of . 2nd International Workshop on Philosophical Foundations of Information Systems Engineering (PHISE'06) to be held in conjunction with the 18th Conference on Advanced Information System Engineering (CAiSE'06) (5 June 2006, Luxembourg) . Computer Ethics and Human Values (CEHV) track, SAC 2006, The 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Dijon, France, April 23-27, 2006 - Welcome to the all the new members of the Mailing List.