Luciano Floridi is a Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab at the University of Oxford. He is also a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy at the University of Oxford. Professor Floridi is also a Faculty Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at American University. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the Sapienza University of Rome and M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Warwick.

His research primarily concerns digital ethics, the philosophy of information, and the philosophy of technology.

Representative Publications

Floridi, Luciano. “The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: The Ethical Analysis of a Failure, and its Lessons.” Ethics and Information Technology 17.2 (2015): 165-173.

Floridi, Luciano. “Distributed Morality in an Information Society.” Science and Engineering Ethics 19.3 (2013): 727-743.

Floridi, Luciano. “Semantic Information and the Network Theory of Account.” Synthese 184.3 (2012): 431-454.