Luciano Floridi

Quotes

• “Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of human development”
• “One of the most obvious features that characterizes any technology is its in-betweenness. Suppose Alice lives in Rio de Janeiro, not in Oxford. A hat is a technology between her and the sunshine. A pair of sandals is a technology between her and the hot sand of the beach on which she is walking”
• “The illusion that there might be a single, correct, absolute answer independently of context, purpose and perspective, that is independently of the relevant interface, leads to paradoxical nonsense”
• “According to recent estimates, life on Earth will last for another billion years, until it will be destroyed by the increase in solar temperature”
• “The technophile and the technophobe ask the same question. What's next?”
• “ICTs are modifying the very nature of, and hence what we mean by, reality, by transforming it into an infosphere. Infosphere is a neologism coined in the seventies. It is based on ‘biosphere’, a term referring to that limited region on our planet that supports life. It is also a concept that is quickly evolving.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1964-11-16 ) 16 November 1964 (age 61) , Rome, Italy

Awards

List Gauss Professor (2009) Barwise Prize (2009) Covey Award (2012) Weizenbaum Award (2013) Malpensa Prize (2015) Copernicus Award (2016) J. Ong Award (2016)

Alma mater

Sapienza University of Rome University of Warwick

Doctoral advisor

Susan Haack , Michael Dummett

Era

Contemporary philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Analytic (unconventional)

Main interests

Philosophy of Information , information ethics , philosophy of technology , philosophy of logic , epistemology , digital ethics , computer ethics

Notable ideas

Philosophy of information , information ethics , infosphere , levels of abstraction , the fourth revolution , onlife .

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Official website

www.philosophyofinformation.net

Image

Luciano Floridi a Milano.jpg

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