
Italian Philosophy of Technology
Socio-Cultural, Legal, Scientific and Aesthetic Perspectives on Technology
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 21. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 261 pages
978-3-030-54524-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1st ed. 2021
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen
VI, 261 p. 3 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
411 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-54524-6 (9783030545246)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-54522-2
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Simona Chiodo | Viola Schiaffonati
Italian Philosophy of Technology
Socio-Cultural, Legal, Scientific and Aesthetic Perspectives on Technology
Book
12/2020
Springer
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
Introduction by Simona Chiodo and Viola Schiaffonati.- CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS. Technology, society, and politics by Emanuele Severino.- Machine, culture, and robot by Carlo Sini.- Machines and subjects. Post-anthropological perspectives by Ubaldo Fadini.- Ethics of ICTs. A cross-cultural view between analytic and continental philosophy by Adriano Fabris.- 4.0. Registration versus information by Maurizio Ferraris.- The ontological interpretation of informational privacy by Luciano Floridi.- PHILOSOPHY AND LAW. Critical approaches to technology by Alberto Artosi. Law and technological expertise by Mariachiara Tallacchini.- Law and technologies as artefacts by Corrado Roversi.- Law and computation by Giovanni Sartor.- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.Robots and responsibility by Guglielmo Tamburrini.- Morality in a technological world. Knowledge as duty by Lorenzo Magnani.- The Italian debate on cybernetics, AI and cognitive science by Edoardo Datteri.- AESTHETICS. Art within technology by Mario Costa.- Ontology of the virtual by Roberto Diodato.- Techno-aesthetics and forms of imagination by Pietro Montani.