Italian Philosophy of Technology: Socio-Cultural, Legal, Scientific and Aesthetic Perspectives on Technology
Simona Chiodo · Viola Schiaffonati
Dec 2020 · Philosophy of Engineering and Technology Book 35 · Springer Nature
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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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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.
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.
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