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赫特福德郡大学信息哲学研究组20100127

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主页:  Research Group in Philosophy of Information
Welcome to the Website of the GPI

The GPI is an interdisciplinary group of researchers, interested in the nature, logic, dynamical processes and ethical implications of information and information technologies, including computation and computer science.

The Philosophy of Information (PI) is a new area of research, with roots in philosophical logic, formal epistemology, philosophy of AI and computation, computer ethics, analytic philosophy and several other disciplines and research programs dating from the second half of the twentieth century.

We believe that PI is a fruitful and interesting way of doing philosophy in the twenty-first century. Although scholarly attention is paid to the history of philosophy and to the great thinkers and scientists of the past, the group is not interested in the archeology of ideas, in looking behind in order to see what may lay ahead, or in reading and reflecting on the past canon for its own sake, without paying attention to whether what past canon says is true or false. This applies very recent classics as well.

We share with the past analytic tradition a methodological preference for a problem-solving approach, for clear thinking and for well-argued, explicit theses that are related to and relevant for our time. However, we do not share the thesis of "philosophy of language as philosophia prima" and we are not keen on scholastic diatribes. Needless to say, our "philosophia prima" is PI. Thus, in the words of Patrick Allo, the motto of the group is "information first!".

We consider philosophy and science in general as joint, if different, enterprises dealing with the same business of seeking to know and understand reality and human life.

Members of the group belong to several universities and their researches cover a very wide selection of topics, which are listed under their profiles.

The group has a twin in Oxford, where the IEG (the interdepartmental Information Ethics research Group) comprises several of our members.

The research group is open to new contributions and ideas. If you wish to know more about our activities you may subscribe to the mailing list (which is fully moderated and low traffic) and thus receive our Newsletter. If you are actively doing research in an area that substantially involves PI topics or are just interested in PI, we would be delighted to hear from you and about your work, so we hope you will get in touch by sending an email to Luciano Floridi.


成员介绍:
   

Patrick Allo
Patrick Allo
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Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Brussels Free University (VUB). Current research project: "Models for Being Informative". Doctoral thesis "On Logics and Being Informative. Pluralism, Locality, and Feasibility" defended at Brussels University (2007) while working as a Research Assistant of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO - Vlaanderen) on the project "The Cognitive Dynamics of Information Handling -- Design of a Multi-Modal and Adaptive Formalism".
 

Alexandru Baltag
Alexandru Baltag
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University Lecturer in Computer Science, Oxford University, Computing Laboratory. He is Romanian and received his BA and MS from University of Bucharest, and his PhD in Mathematics from Indiana University (1998), under the supervision of Jon Barwise. HIs main interests are: models for Information Update and (multi-agent) Information Flow; epistemic, doxastic and dynamic logic, and their relevance for Epistemology; dynamic-logical approaches to Belief Revision; connections between Logic and Game Theory; logical approaches to Quantum Information; modelling circularity and paradoxes in logic and language using Set-Theoretic (non-wellfounded sets) and Category-Theoretic (coalgebraic) models.

 


Bruce Christianson
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MSc, DPhil, FNZMS, Professor of Informatics, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire. He studied modal and intensional logic with George Hughes and Max Cresswell in New Zealand. His research interests centre around Automatic Differentiation (a set of techniques for transforming scientific modelling programs so as to calculate sensitivities such as gradients efficiently and to machine precision), Security Protocols and High Performance Architecture.

 


Paul Coates
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BA in Philosophy with Psychology, MA in Philosophy, University of Sussex; PhD University College, London, Reader in Metaphysics, School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities Law and Education, University of Hertfordshire. His research interests include perception and the different forms of representational content, and the relation between intentionality and phenomenal experience.
 


Sam Coleman
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Philosophy Oriel College Oxford and Darwin College Cambridge, PhD, Birkbeck, University of London, Lecturer in Philosohy, School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities Law and Education, University of Hertfordshire. His research interest include the nature of phenomenal consciousness, the debate surrounding physicalism and attempts to naturalise mind, the meaning and possibility of reductionism in general,and the unity of the sciences.
 


Kerstin Dautenhahn
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Research Professor, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, where she is the coordinator of the Adaptive Systems Research Group. Her main areas of my research are Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Socially Intelligent Agents and Artificial Life She is Editor in Chief of the Journal Interaction Studies published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, and Associate Editor of Adaptive Behavior, Sage Publications.
 

Luciano Floridi
Luciano Floridi
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Laurea, Rome "La Sapienza", M.Phil. PhD. Warwick, MA Oxon. Research Professor in Philosophy of Information, School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities Law and Education, University of Hertfordshire, Coordinator of the GPI, University of Hertfordshire, Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford and Coordinator of the IEG, University of Oxford. President of IACAP. His main areas of research are the philosophy of information and information ethics.

 


Shaun Gallagher
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Professor and Chair, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Central Florida, and Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities Law and Education, University of Hertfordshire. He is editor of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, an interdisciplinary journal published by Springer. His research interests include phenomenology and the philosophy of mind, embodiment, neuropsychology, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of time.

 


Dan Hutto
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BA, MPhil, DPhil, Research Professor of Philosophical Psychology and Research Leader for Philosophy, School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities Law and Education, University of Hertfordshire. His research interests include information, perception, cognition and theories of content and more specifically biosemiotics.

 

Mark Jago
Mark Jago
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Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham. He is interested in formal epistemology, particularly ideas of bounded rationality and epistemic possibility and how these might affect the information one gains from logical inference. In June 2007, he will start as Chief Investigator on the ARC-funded project, 'Rationality and Resource Bounds in Logics for Intentional Attitudes' at Macquarie, Sydney.

 


Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

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Research Professor of Mathematical and Evolutionary Computer Sciences, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire. His research interests include the development of algebraic, automata- and information-theoretic, evolutionary, and philosophical ideas for constructive and humane application to the understanding and synthesis of biological and interactive systems. He is Associate Editor of BioSystems: Journal of Biological and Information Processing Sciences, Associate Editor of Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, a member of the Santa Fe Institute Evolvability Working Group, of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, and director of the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council's Network on Evolvability in Biology and Software Systems.

 


Daniel Polani

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Principal Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Associate Editor of Advances in Complex Systems. His research interests are informational principles behind the emergence of organization in biological systems and their application to Artificial Intelligence and Artifical Life; quantitative information-theoretic characterizations of the perception-action loop and sensor evolution, of relevant information and of information flows in agents and other complex systems.

 

Giuseppe PrimieroGiuseppe Primiero
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MA in Philosophy at the Universities of Palermo (Italy) and Leiden (the Netherlands); PhD in Philosophy at Palermo University (Italy). Post-Doctoral researcher at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at Ghent University (Belgium). His research focuses on logical modelling of dynamic reasoning within alternative logics (constructive, adaptive, non-monotonic and interactive), especially with respect to the epistemic description of knowledge, belief contents and the flow of information.
 

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
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Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2006 from the University of Quebec at Montreal and the ComLab, Oxford University. She is currently EPSRC Research Fellow, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, and Academic visitor, ComLab, Oxford University. Her research interests include reasoning about information flow in multi-agent systems, algebraic semantics for dynamic epistemic logic, classical and quantum security protocols and computational linguistics.
 

Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson
Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson
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Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Wingate Scholar and DPhil Candidate at Balliol College and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Visiting Fellow at the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. 2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Formal Epistemology at  the Centre for Logic, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Language, University of Leuven, Belgium. BA (HONS) and MPhil at The University of Sydney. BPhil with Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (thesis: 'Information and Logical Equivalence'). His DPhil thesis is an extension of his BPhil project. It explores the formal tractability of the non-identical informativeness of logically equivalent sentences.

 

Miguel Sicart
Miguel Sicart
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He received PhD in Computer Game Studies from the IT University of Copenhagen in December 2006. He is currently assistant professor in game design at the IT University. He is interested in computer game ethics, political games, and game design and development theory.
 


Jane Singleton
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BA Hons. Degree Philosophy, First Class, University of Exeter; D.Phil Philosophy, University of Sussex, Principal Lecturer in Philosophy, School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities Law and Education, University of Hertfordshire. Her research interest include developing a Kantian approach to ethical issues.

 

Sonja Smets
Sonja Smets
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Lecturer in Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Post-doctoral Researcher at Flanders' Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium. Research Topics: philosophy of quantum information, quantum logic and quantum information theory, non-classical logics, applied logics, belief revision and update.

 
 

Matteo Turilli
Matteo Turilli
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DPhil student in Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He graduated in philosophy at University of Padua with an MA thesis on the philosophy of information. His research concernes distributed systems design and computer ethics. The title of his DPhil thesis is: "Integration of Ethical Principles in the Practice of Software Engeneering".
 


Vito Veneziano
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Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire. His research interests focus on requirements and software engineering, with an emphasis on related epistemological, cognitive and organisational issues. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy (1998. Major: foundations of logic) from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (2001. Major: cognitive biases in software engineering) from Rome University "La Sapienza".
 


Paul Wernick
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Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire. PhD in Software Engineering at University College London, investigating the content of the Kuhnian disciplinary matrix of Software Engineering. Postdoctoral researcher art Imperial College London, constructing simulation models of software evolution processes. His current philosophical research activities include the application of the philosophy of science to software development as a discipline and the development of simulations of software evolution processes using Actor-network theory as an underlying theory base.



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