Floridi Luciano
MembersProfessor and Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center
Luciano Floridi is a Professor in the Practice in the Cognitive Science Program of Yale University. He founded Yale’s Digital Ethics Center, which seeks to research the societal impact of modern digital innovations. Floridi is the Director of the Center. Floridi moved at Yale from Oxford where he was the Oxford Internet Institute’s Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information. His lifetime project is a tetralogy (not his term) on the foundation of the philosophy of information, called Principia Philosophiae Informationis. His latest book is The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities, Oxford University Press, in 2023.
Floridi’s research concerns primarily Digital Ethics (aka Information and Computer Ethics), the Ethics of AI, the Philosophy of Information, and the Philosophy of Technology. His other research interests include Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic, and the History and Philosophy of Scepticism. Floridi has published over 300 papers in these areas, in many peer-reviewed journals, anthologies, and edited volumes. His works have been translated into many languages, including Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Floridi was born in Rome in 1964. He was educated at Rome University La Sapienza, where he graduated in philosophy (laurea) in 1988, first class with distinction, after serving in the army (compulsory). His MPhil (1989; originally a one-year MA, the two-year MPhil was awarded in recognition of the quality of the thesis) and PhD (1990) are both in philosophy, from the University of Warwick.
Outside Yale, Floridi is a part-time Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna.
Other Websites:
https://www.philosophyofinformation.net/
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/luciano-floridi/
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