Floridi

Luciano Floridi
Born	(1964-11-16) 16 November 1964 (age 52) Rome, Italy
Alma mater	Sapienza University of Rome University of Warwick
Awards	Weizenbaum Award (2013)
Website	http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Main interests	Philosophy of Information, information ethics, philosophy of technology, philosophy of logic, epistemology
Notable ideas	Philosophy of information, information ethics, infosphere, levels of abstraction, the fourth technological revolution
Influences Sextus Empiricus, Kant, Neo-Kantianism, Charles Sanders Peirce, Michael Dummett, Susan Haack

Luciano Floridi (/flɔːˈriːdi/; born 16 November 1964) is currently Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, Senior Member of the Faculty of Philosophy, Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Floridi is best known for his work on two areas of philosophical research: the philosophy of information and information ethics.

Between 2008 and 2013, he held the Research Chair in philosophy of information and the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics at the University of Hertfordshire. He was the founder and director of the IEG, an interdepartmental research group on the philosophy of information at the University of Oxford, and of the GPI the research Group in Philosophy of Information at the University of Hertfordshire. He was the founder and director of the , the Italian e-journal of philosophy (1995–2008).

His works have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.

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