------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the IEG newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this issue: - Publications - Forthcoming - Conferences & Talks - Others ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Publications ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - P. Allo: . "Local Information and Adaptive Consequence", Logique & Analyse, 49(196): 461-488. - P. Allo & L. Floridi, . "Logic and the Philosophy of Information", Special issue of Logique & Analyse, 49(196). - L. Floridi . "A look into the future impact of ICT on our lives", The Information Society. 2007, 23.1, 59-64. An abridged and modified version was published in TidBITS. . "Ética de la Información, su Naturaleza y Alcance" Spanish translation by Roberto Feltrero and Paula Olmos of "Information Ethics, its Nature and Scope", Isegoría. 2006, 34, 19-46. . Guest editor (with Julian Savulescu) of a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology dedicated to "Information Ethics: Agents, Artifacts and New Cultural Perspectives". . "Information Technologies and the Tragedy of the Good Will", Ethics and Information Technology. 2006, 8.4, 253-262. . "Four Challenges for a Theory of Informational Privacy", Ethics and Information Technology. 2006, 8.3, 109-119. . "Por una filosofìa de la Información", Big Bang, 2006. - K. Mather: . "Object oriented goodness: A response to Mathiesen's 'What Is Information Ethics?"', in "The Best of ACM SIG Computers and Society - 2004 to 2006", Vol. 3, No. 3. - S. Sequoiah-Grayson . "Information Flow and Impossible Situations", Logique & Analyse, 49(196): 371-398. - M. Turilli: . "Ethical Protocols Design". Ethics and Information Technology, 9(1): 49-62. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Forthcoming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - P. Allo: . "Logical Pluralism and Semantic Information", Journal of Philosophical Logic. - L. Floridi: . "A Defence of Informational Structural Realism", Synthese. . "Semantic Information: Philosophical Issues and Theories", Lecture Notes in Computer Science . "Computers", invited contribution to New Waves in Applied Ethics, edited by C. Wolf, J. Ryberg and T. Petersen (Ashgate: forthcoming). . "Trends in the Philosophy of Information", invited chapter for Handbook of Philosophy of Information, a book edited by Pieter Adriaans and Johan van Benthem in the series Handbooks of the Philosophy of Science (Elsevier, forthcoming). . "Data", article for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, editor in chief W. A. Darity (Macmillan). . Japanese translation of "Information Ethics, its Nature and Scope" to be published by NTT (Tokyo) in an anthology on information ethics, edited by Prof. Nishigaki. . "A Philosophical Introduction to Computer Ethics", editor, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). - K. Mather: . "E-waste and the ethical rationale behind environmentally-sound ICT", ACS Information Age, April/May 2007. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences & Talks ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - L. Floridi: . Invited speaker, Philosophy of Science and Technology Division, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, (Beijing, Fall, 2008). . Invited speaker, workshop on Computation in Cognitive Science, University of Cambridge (King's College, Cambridge, July 7-8, 2008). . Invited speaker, Information Ethics Roundtable, CUNY (Hunter College, New York, April/May, 2008). . Invited speaker, "What is life?", University of Kyoto (Kyoto, 14-21 October, 2007). . Synthese Annual Conference "Between Logic and Intuition: David Lewis and the Future of Formal Methods in Philosophy", Carlsberg Academy (Copenhagen, October 3- 5 , 2007). . Invited speaker, Colloquium on Philosophy of Science in Italy, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University (Boston, September 10-11, 2007). . Invited speaker, Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg, Austria, August 5-11, 2007). . Presidential address, North-American Computing and Philosophy Conference, Loyola University (Chicago, July 26-28, 2007). . "Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web: A Philosophical View", North-American Computing and Philosophy Conference, Loyola University (Chicago, July 26-28, 2007). . Invited speaker, James Martin Seminar Series, Oxford University (Oxford, May 29, 2007). . Invited speaker, Filosofiska Institutionen, University of Uppsala (Uppsala, May 25, 2007). . Invited speaker, Workshop on Moral agency and technical artefacts, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Haagse Campus, The Hague, May 10-12, 2007). . Invited speaker, Birkbeck College Philosophy Society, University of London (London, 16 May, 2007). . Invited talk, "Bioinformatica e Diritto", IFOM (Milan, April 5, 2007). . Invited talk, Department of Philosophy, Universita' degli Studi di Genova (Genoa, April 3, 2007). . Invited talk, "The Digital Image" A Symposium of the Oxford e-Research Centre, Wolfson College (Oxford, March 16 , 2007). . "Distributed morality in multiagent systems", paper accepted for the Seventh International Computer Ethics Conference (CEPE 2007), July 12-14 2007 University of San Diego, USA http://cepe2007.sandiego.edu/index.asp - K. Mather: . "Information ethics: ICT professional responsibility in the information environment". to be delivered at ETHICOMP 2007, Meiji University, Tokyo, March 27-29, 2007. - M. Turilli: . "Ethical flexibility for artificial agents", paper accepted for the Seventh International Computer Ethics Conference (CEPE 2007), July 12-14 2007 University of San Diego, USA http://cepe2007.sandiego.edu/index.asp ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Others ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - P. Allo: . Member of the programme committee of ECAP2007, and track-chair for the philosophy of information and information technology. - L. Floridi: . The Philosophy of Information, book under contract (Oxford: Oxford University Press). . Philosophy of Computing and Information: 5 Questions, edited book under contract (Automatic Press / VIP). . "The Philosophy of Information, its Nature and Future Developments", guest editor of the special issue of The Information Society. . elected fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. . area editor (computing and information), editorial board of Synthese. . associate editor (philosophy of information), editorial board of The Information Society. - K. Mather: . Appointed Editor of the journal of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (SIGCAS) following in the footsteps of Alison Adam. . 'Visiting Academic' at St. Cross College, Oxford, January to July 2007. - S. Sequoiah-Grayson: . Secured funding from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, for the First Workshop on the Philosophy of Information and Logic, November 2007, University of Oxford. - M. Sicart, . Dissertation among the top 10 research findings (actually, #2) in game research this year, as presented at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, March 5-9 http://www.avantgame.com/top10.htm -- IEG - Information Ethics Group http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/