Luciano Floridi

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University of Oxford

Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information

Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Director of Research of the Oxford Internet Institute, Faculty Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, and Adjunct Professor of the Dept. of Economics, American University, Washington D.C. His most recent book is The Fourth Revolution - How the infosphere is reshaping human reality (OUP, 2016). He is Member of the EU Ethics Advisory Group, Chairman of EMIF’s Ethics Advisory Board, and Member of Google’s Advisory Board on “the right to be forgotten”. Among his recognitions, he was elected Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow by the European University Institute; awarded the Cátedras de Excelencia Prize by the University Carlos III of Madrid, was the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics, and Gauss Professor of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. He has received the MEA’s J. Ong Award, the Copernicus Award, APA's Barwise Prize, the IACAP's Covey Award, and the INSEIT's Weizenbaum Award.