Luciano Floridi: Mastermind of Information Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-121
Author(s):  
George Strawn
Keyword(s):  
Luciano Floridi

A moral analysis of intelligent decision-support systems in diagnostics through the lens of Luciano Floridi’s information ethics

Human Affairs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-164
Author(s):  
Dmytro Mykhailov
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Medical Diagnosis ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Moral Agent ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Intelligent Decision ◽  
Luciano Floridi ◽  
Intelligent Decision Support

Abstract Contemporary medical diagnostics has a dynamic moral landscape, which includes a variety of agents, factors, and components. A significant part of this landscape is composed of information technologies that play a vital role in doctors’ decision-making. This paper focuses on the so-called Intelligent Decision-Support System that is widely implemented in the domain of contemporary medical diagnosis. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, I will show that the IDSS may be considered a moral agent in the practice of medicine today. To develop this idea I will introduce the approach to artificial agency provided by Luciano Floridi. Simultaneously, I will situate this approach in the context of contemporary discussions regarding the nature of artificial agency. It is argued here that the IDSS possesses a specific sort of agency, includes several agent features (e.g. autonomy, interactivity, adaptability), and hence, performs an autonomous behavior, which may have a substantial moral impact on the patient’s well-being. It follows that, through the technology of artificial neural networks combined with ‘deep learning’ mechanisms, the IDSS tool achieves a specific sort of independence (autonomy) and may possess a certain type of moral agency. Second, I will provide a conceptual framework for the ethical evaluation of the moral impact that the IDSS may have on the doctor’s decision-making and, consequently, on the patient’s wellbeing. This framework is the Object-Oriented Model of Moral Action developed by Luciano Floridi. Although this model appears in many contemporary discussions in the field of information and computer ethics, it has not yet been applied to the medical domain. This paper addresses this gap and seeks to reveal the hidden potentialities of the OOP model for the field of medical diagnosis.

scholarly journals Aspectos da tipicidade penal a partir da Filosofia da Informação

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-166
Author(s):  
Thiago Dias de Matos Diniz
Keyword(s):  
Luciano Floridi

A Filosofia da Informação pode fornecer novas bases para o tratamento de conceitos tradicionalmente problemáticos da teoria do delito, especialmente daqueles compreendidos na tipicidade em seu aspecto subjetivo: a distinção entre dolo e culpa, sem cair nas aporias do objetivismo (funcionalismo sistêmico) ou do subjetivismo (finalismo). A partir de revisão de literatura focada na Filosofia da Informação de Luciano Floridi, extraem-se aportes conceituais para a delimitação do dolo, notadamente a partir das leis da entropia e da heteronomia do paciente, que permitem fundamentar os critérios doutrinários da sua caracterização, conforme a intensidade objetiva do perigo criado e o grau de vulnerabilidade concreto da vítima.

Hume and the Legacy of Pyrrhonian Scepticism

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-184
Author(s):  
Peter S. Fosl
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Early Modern Philosophy ◽  
Luciano Floridi ◽  
Pierre Gassendi ◽  
Pierre Bayle ◽  
Pyrrhonian Scepticism

The last chapter of Part One’s historical quartet traces the development of Pyrrhonism across medieval, Renaissance, and early modern philosophy. Extending the work of Charles B. Schmitt, Richard H. Popkin, Luciano Floridi, et al., the chapter assesses the sceptical thought of Montaigne and devotes subsequent sections to the Pyrrhonian dimensions of work by François de La Mothe le Vayer, Pierre Gassendi, Pierre Bayle, and Pierre-Daniel Huet. Because Hume is typically understood to be anti-Pyrrhonian, Chapter Four develops a three-plank justification for attributing deeply Pyrrhonian dimensions to his work. Plank one is bibliographic and argues that Hume enjoyed access to Pyrrhonian texts and likely used them. Plank two argues for a hermeneutic of suspicion when reading Hume, largely grounded in the hostility he and others faced on account of their supposed scepticism. Plank three is conceptual and argues that Hume’s work exhibits philosophical qualities remarkably similar to those of historical Pyrrhonism. Synthesizing the results of Part One of Hume’s Scepticism, Chapter Four closes with a twelve-point General Framework defining scepticism generally.

The Ethics of Information, by Luciano Floridi

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-75
Author(s):  
Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Luciano Floridi

scholarly journals Compelling truth: legal protection of the infosphere against big data spills

2016 ◽  
Vol 374 (2083) ◽  
pp. 20160114
Author(s):  
Burkhard Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Data Breach ◽  
Luciano Floridi ◽  
Informational Environment

The paper explores whether legal and ethical concepts that have been used to protect the natural environment can also be leveraged to protect the ‘infosphere’, a neologism used by Luciano Floridi to characterize the totality of the informational environment. We focus, in particular, on the interaction between allocation of (intellectual) property rights and ‘communication duties’, in particular, data breach notification duties. This article is part of the themed issue ‘The ethical impact of data science’.

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