INTRODUCTION: The Italian Philosophy of Technology
Simona Chiodo and Viola Schiaffonati
Part I: Culture, Society and Politics
Oedipus’ Stick
Maurizio Ferraris
Ethics and ICTs Beyond Analytic and Continental Philosophy
Adriano Fabris
The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy
Luciano Floridi
On the Meaning of Technology’s Domination
Emanuele Severino
Machine, Culture, and Robot
Carlo Sini
Part II: Philosophy OF Law
Computation, Cybernetics and the Law at the Origins of Legal Informatics
Giuseppe Contissa, Francesco Godano and Giovanni Sartor
On the Principle of Privacy by Design and its Limits: Technology, Ethics and the Rule of Law
Ugo Pagallo
Law as an Artifact: An Assessment
Corrado Roversi
Technical Normativity
Alberto Artosi
Part III: Philosophy of Science
Research Programs Based on Machine Intelligence Games
Guglielmo Tamburrini and Francesco Altiero
Robots and Bionic Systems as Experimental Platforms for the Study of Animal and Human Behaviour
Edoardo Datteri
Knowledge as Duty. Morality in a Technological World: A New Philosophical Stance
Lorenzo Magnani
Part IV: Aesthetics
Art Inside Technology
Mario Costa
Ontology of the Virtual
Roberto Diodato
Techno-aesthetics and Forms of the Imagination
Pietro Montani
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 researcher at 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.
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.