Italian Philosophy of Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. The Italian Philosophy of Technology

   • Simona Chiodo, Viola Schiaffonati

   Pages 1-9

3. Culture, Society and Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Oedipus’ Stick

      • Maurizio Ferraris

      Pages 13-29

   3. Ethics and ICTs Beyond Analytic and Continental Philosophy

      • Adriano Fabris

      Pages 31-43

   4. The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy

      • Luciano Floridi

      Pages 45-68

   5. On the Meaning of Technology’s Domination

      • Emanuele Severino

      Pages 69-82

   6. Machine, Culture, and Robot

      • Carlo Sini

      Pages 83-88

4. Philosophy of Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Computation, Cybernetics and the Law at the Origins of Legal Informatics

      • Giuseppe Contissa, Francesco Godano, Giovanni Sartor

      Pages 91-110

   3. On the Principle of Privacy by Design and Its Limits: Technology, Ethics and the Rule of Law

      • Ugo Pagallo

      Pages 111-127

   4. Law as an Artifact: An Assessment

      • Corrado Roversi

      Pages 129-147

   5. Technical Normativity

      • Alberto Artosi

      Pages 149-160

5. Philosophy of Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Research Programs Based on Machine Intelligence Games

      • Guglielmo Tamburrini, Francesco Altiero

      Pages 163-179

   3. Robots and Bionic Systems as Experimental Platforms for the Study of Animal and Human Behaviour

      • Edoardo Datteri

      Pages 181-197

   4. Knowledge as Duty

      • Lorenzo Magnani

      Pages 199-215

6. Aesthetics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Art Inside Technology

      • Mario Costa

      Pages 219-232

   3. Ontology of the Virtual

      • Roberto Diodato

      Pages 233-245

This is the first volume about the Italian philosophy of technology written in English and including novel and translated contributions. The volume presents original research on emerging topics in the field, as well as an overview of the most distinguished Italian approaches to the philosophy of technology. While offering both historical and political perspectives and the contributions of the philosophy of law, philosophy of science, and aesthetics, Italian Philosophy of Technology promotes a novel view on the intersection between continental and analytic traditions in the philosophy of technology.

• Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
• Philosophy Information
• Fadini Ethics
• Morality Technological World
• Philosophy AI
• Italy Technology Culture
• Ethics Privacy
• Italy Society Technology
• Italy Culture Technology
• Italy Law Technology
• Italy Privacy
• Robots Resposible
• Techno Aesthetics
• Virtual Reality Philospohy
• Floridi Information Privacy
• engineering ethics

• Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  Simona Chiodo

• Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  Viola Schiaffonati

Simona Chiodo teaches Aesthetics and Epistemology and coordinates the interdoctoral course of Epistemology of Scientific and Technical Research at Politecnico di Milano. She was Visiting Professor in Edinburgh, Visiting Scholar in Pittsburgh and spent research stays at Harvard. She is a member of the Research Ethical Committee of Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on Epistemology (relationship between aisthesis and episteme, epistemological dualism and relationship between reality and ideality) and Aesthetics (beauty and aesthetics of architecture).


Viola Schiaffonati teaches Computer Ethics and Philosophical Issues of Computer Science. She is a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab of Politecnico di Milano. She obtained a PhD in Philosophy of Science at the Università degli Studi di Genova and has been a Visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley and a Visiting researcherat Stanford University. Her research interests include the philosophical issues of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Computer Science and are focused, in particular, on the epistemology of experiments in autonomous robotics, on computer simulations, and on the ethical issues of intelligent systems.

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