Luciano Floridi

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Full Name	Luciano Floridi
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Nov 16, 1964(1964-11-16)
Age	60
Birthplace	Rome
Country	Italy
Birth City	Lazio
Horoscope	Scorpio

Luciano Floridi Biography

Luciano Floridi is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on November 16, 1964 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. AISB/IACAP World Congress in Honor of Alan Turing (1912-1954) dedicates its “Author Meets Critics Session to Luciano Floridi “The Philosophy of Information”

In 1999’s Preface to Philosophy and Computing, he stated that the book was intended for philosophy students who require IT literacy in order to use computers efficiently and for essential background knowledge in order to understand the digital age. This book provides the foundation for the new branch of philosophy, the philosophy information. His main research interest was PI or PCI (Philosophy of Computing and Information).

University of Hertfordshire, Vice Chancellor Award 2010: “Highly commended for research supporting engagement with business, the profession and partner organisations”.

Minds and Machines, Springer, is preparing a special issue dedicated to his work, entitled Philosophy in the Age of Information: A Symposium on Luciano Floridi’s The Philosophy of Information (Oxford, 2011)

In 1990-1, he was a University of Warwick lecturer in Philosophy. In 1990, he joined the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford and the OUCL (Oxford’s Department of Computer Science) 1999. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College in Philosophy (1990-4), Frances Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute (1994-95), and Research Fellow at Wolfson College in Philosophy (1994-2001). He held various lectureships at different colleges during his time in Oxford. He also held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of Philosophy, University of Turin, between 1994 and 1996. He was a Markle Foundation Senior Research Fellow in Information Policy in 2001-2006 at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy of Oxford University. He was Associate Professor in Logic at the Universita di Studi di Bari from 2002 to 2008. He was elected Fellow by special election of St Cross College, Oxford University in 2006. In 2006, he played squash for the university’s squash team. He was made full professor of philosophy in 2008 at the University of Hertfordshire. This gave him the opportunity to hold the newly created research chair in philosophy of Information and, since 2009 the UNESCO Chair on Information and Computer Ethics.

Luciano Floridi Net Worth

Luciano Floridi is one of the richest Philosopher from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Luciano Floridi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Floridi was born 1964 in Rome. He studied philosophy at Rome University La Sapienza, where he was initially educated as an historian of philosophy. Floridi soon became interested and completed his MA dissertation in philosophy of logic on Michael Dummett’s Anti-Realism. He received his Master of Philosophy (1989), and his PhD (1990) degrees from the University of Warwick. He worked in epistemology, philosophy of logic, and with Susan Haack, who was his PhD supervisor. Part of Floridi’s student years can be found in The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece. He was called “Luciano”. He covered standard topics in analytic philosophical research in search of a better method. When tackling contemporary philosophical problems, he sought to use a heuristically strong and intellectually enriching approach. He began to disengage himself from the classical analytic philosophy during his graduate studies. He felt that the analytic movement was losing its way. He focused his efforts on pragmatism, especially Peirce, and foundationalist issues within epistemology.

Luciano Floridi is currently Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and the Director of the Digital Ethics Lab at the University of Oxford. He was born 16 November 1964 in Italy. He is also an Adjunct Professor (“Distinguished scholar in residence”) at American University. He is Turing Fellow, Chair of the Data Ethics Group of the Alan Turing Institute (DEG), and

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 SWIF, the Italian e-journal of philosophy (1995–2008). He is a former Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.

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