Books by Luciano Floridi
Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. In 2014, he was on Google’s advisory council to discuss the outcome of the recent “right to be forgotten ruling” made by the European Court of Justice.
“I love Luciano Floridi—who is a philosopher of technology—because I think he has a breadth of vision, a genuinely systematic approach to the ethics of technology, but also he is deeply literate in history, and deeply interested in human nature. He’s not a consequentialist, in the sense of being interested in maximising some kind of uber-beneficial long-term outcome for humanity. A lot of tech philosophy naturally leans towards consequentialism in terms of mega payoffs and outputs. This can be a great tool for engaging with the outputs of particular systems, but it’s not a systematic philosophy of human nature or thriving. In this particular book, Floridi starts by referencing and updating Freud’s account of three historical revolutions in human consciousness.” Read more...
The best books on The Ethics of Technology
Tom Chatfield, Journalist
Interviews with Luciano Floridi
The best books on The Philosophy of Information, recommended by Luciano Floridi
The Oxford professor of philosophy and ‘the ethics of information’ says methods for discussing the ethics of information technology have been latent in philosophy from its origins. He picks the best books on the philosophy of information.
Interviews where books by Luciano Floridi were recommended
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The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
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The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
by Stuart Russell -
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Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
by Gaia Vince
The best books on The Ethics of Technology, recommended by Tom Chatfield
The best books on The Ethics of Technology, recommended by Tom Chatfield
We are building ever more powerful machines that will compute answers to any questions we care to ask them, says Tom Chatfield, the author and tech philosopher. But are we asking the right questions? Here, he selects five of the best books on the ethics of technology—thoughtful explorations of how our newly-made tools might remake us.
