#329 Luciano Floridi: Information, Knowledge, Science, and AI
RECORDED ON March 9th, 2020.
Dr. Luciano Floridi is the OII‘s Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is also the Director of the Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute, and Professorial Fellow of Exeter College. He is a Turing Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (the UK national institute for data science and artificial intelligence) and Chair of its Data Ethics Group. Still in Oxford, he is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Senior Member of the Faculty of Philosophy, and Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy of the Department of Computer Science. He’s also Adjunct Professor (“Distinguished Scholar in Residence”) of the Department of Economics, at the American University, Washington D.C. His research concerns primarily Digital Ethics (aka Information and Computer Ethics), 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.
In this episode, we talk about the philosophy of information. We go through some of the main questions it deals with, and we have a wide-ranging conversation, dealing with topics from metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and ethics.
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What is the Philosophy of Information?
What is information?
How do we get from information to knowledge?
About scientific realism
Mind-brain dualism
The brain as a computer
The potential impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on our lives
Artificial agents, and our relationship with them
The infosphere; new “selves”; - new identity – “onlife”, ICTs as technologies of the self
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Follow Dr. Floridi’s work:
Faculty page: http://bit.ly/2Rl1y8C
Website: http://bit.ly/2TASrms
ResearchGate profile: http://bit.ly/2Tt1AOh
Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Rp8EbV
YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/2VVWPxT
Twitter handle: @Floridi