Italian Philosophy of Technology

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.

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.