------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the IEG newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this issue: - Congratulations - Publications - Translations - Forthcoming - Talks - Others ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Congratulations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Mariarosaria Taddeo, Junior Research Associate at the IEG, successfully defended her MA (Laurea) thesis in philosophy entitled "Soluzione Semi-Rappresentazionalista per il Symbol Grounding Problem. Analisi e risoluzione del problema della generazione di una semantica autonoma per gli agenti artificiali" (supervisors: Luciano Floridi and Mauro Di Giandomenico). The Degree has been awarded by the Philosophy Department, University of Bari (Italy), with the final evaluation of 110/1110 e Lode (the highest mark in the Italian First Degree program). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publications ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - L. Floridi, "Information Ethics, its Nature and Scope" in Computers and Society, 34.5 2005 - L. Floridi, "A Model of Data and Semantic Information" in Knowledge in the New Technologies, edited by Gerassimos Kouzelis, Maria Pournari, Michael Stoeppler, and Vasilis Tselfes (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2005), 21-42. - L. Floridi, "Semantic Conceptions of Information", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2005 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information-semantic/ - L. Floridi, "Information Ethics, its Nature and Scope", invited chapter for Moral Philosophy and Information Technology, edited by Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/ieinas.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - L. Floridi "Zagadnienie moralności informacji. O filozoficznym ugruntowaniu etyki komputerowej", Polish translation of "Information Ethics: On the Philosophical Foundation of Computer Ethics", Ethos, 1-2 (69-70) 2005, the journal of the John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin. - L. Floridi, "Para una filosofía de la información", Spanish translation by Jordi Vallverdú, forthcoming in the the special issue of the Spanish journal Anthropos dedicated to 'Philosophy and Computing', edited by Jordi Vallverdú. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forthcoming ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - M. Taddeo, L. Floridi, "The symbol Grounding Problem: a Critical Review of Fifteen Years of Research", accepted for publication in Journal of Empirica and Theoretical AI. http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/sgpcrfyr.pdf - L. Floridi, "The Ontological Interpretation of Informational privacy", accepted for publication in Ethics and Information Technology. http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/toioip.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Talks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - M. Turilli will deliver two seminars at the Universita' degli studi di Bari (1-2 Dec 2005). The tiles of the two seminars are: 'La logica dei computer' and 'Controllo dinamico in sistemi multi-agenti'. - L. Floridi, invited talks: . Conference on Information Ethics, Oxford University (Oxford, England, 8-9 December, 2005). . University of Regensburg (Regensburg, Germany 9 November, 2005). . Philosophy Seminars, Dundee University (Dundee, Scotland, 15 March, 2006). http://www.dundee.ac.uk/philosophy/events/resseminar.htm . Workshop on "Information Theories", Fribourg University (Fribourg, Switzerland, May/June, 2006). . SFI Meeting (Pescara, Spring 2006). . VII International Ontology Congress "From Plato's Cave to the Internet: The Real and the Virtual" (San Sebastian, Spain, 2-6 October 2006). http://www.ontologia.net/index1.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Others ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Patrick Allo and L. Floridi will edit a special issue of Logique et Analyse dedicated to "Logic and the Philosophy of Information". - Philip Brey, Frances Grodzinsky and Luciano Floridi will edit a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology dedicated to "Privacy and Surveillance". - G. M. Greco and C. Ess will edit a special issue of the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction dedicated to "Information Ethics: Global Issues and Cross-cultural Perspectives". - C. Ess, M. Thorseth and G. M. Greco will edit a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology dedicated to "Global Information Ethics: Cross-cultural Approaches to Emancipation, Privacy and Regulation". - L. Floridi is member of the Programme Committee, Computer Ethics and Human Values (CEHV) track, SAC 2006, The 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Dijon, France, April 23-27, 2006 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2006/ - L. Floridi has been elected member of the editorial board of Minds and Machines (Springer). - L. Floridi is member of the programme committee of the Third International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics WSPI 2006, organized by the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science IFOMIS (http://ifomis.org) and the Special Interest Group on Philosophy and Informatics (http://philosophyandinformatics.org) of the German Informatics Society (Saarbrücken, Germany). - L. Floridi is member of the programme committee of the Fourth International European Conference on Computing and Philosophy (ECAP, http://www.eu-cap.org/) 2006 (Dragvoll Campus, NTNU Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, June 22-24, 2006). - L. Floridi is the new columnist of the The Philosopher's Magazine. He will write the regular "Word of Mouse" column. http://www.philosophersnet.com/ -- IEG - Information Ethics Group http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/