Mariarosaria Taddeo | My Research

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Interests

My primary research interests are Philosophy of Information, Information and Computer Ethics, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agents Systems.

Biography

I hold a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Hertfordshire, where I am working on Informational Conflicts and their ethical implications. I am also affiliated to the Information Ethics Group (IEG) at the University of Oxford. I obtained a European PhD in Philosophy at the University of Padua. My PhD thesis concerned the epistemic and ethical implications of the occurrences of e-Trust in distributed systems. I graduated in philosophy at the University of Bari with a MA thesis on the Symbol Grounding Problem.

Awards

• 2010 Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy by The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP).

Current Positions and Associations

• Marie Curie Fellow - School of Humanities - Philosophy - University of Hertfordshire
• Senior Research Associate - Information Ethics Group (IEG) - University of Oxford

Publications

• An Information-Based Solution for the Puzzle of Testimony and Trust, Social Epistemology, Forthcoming.
• Modelling Trust in Artificial Agents, a First Step toward the Analysis of e-Trust, Minds and Machines, 2010, 20.2, 243-257.
• The case of on-line trust, Knowledge Technology and Policy, (with M. Turilli, A. Vaccaro) Forthcoming.
• Defining Trust and E-trust: Old Theories and New Problems, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association, 2009, 5-2, 23-35.
• Turing's Imitation Game: Still an Impossible Challenge for All Machines and Some Judges - an Evaluation of the 2008 Loebner Contest, Minds and Machines, 2008, 19-1, 145-150.
• A Praxical Solution of the Symbol Grounding Problem, Minds and Machines, (with L. Floridi) 2007, 17.4, 369-389.
• The Symbol Grounding Problem: a Critical Review of Fifteen Years of Research, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, (with L. Floridi) 2005, 17.4, 419-445.

Conference Papers

• Panel on “e-Trust: for and against”, Eighth International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE’09), Ionian Academy (Corfu, Greece, 26-28 June 2009).
• "E-trust as a morally Boolean phenomenon", 7th European Conference on Computing and Philosophy (ECAP'09), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, (Bellaterra, Catalonia 2-4 July 2009).
• "Analysing the occurrences of e-trust in a network of artificial agents", Twenty Fifth North American Conference on Computing and Philosophy (NA-CAP'08), Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 14-16 June 2009).
• "Applying Information Ethics to Business Ethics”, Network Ethics: The New Challenge in Business, ICT and Education, Centre for Ethics Business and Economics, Catholic University of Lisbon(Lisbon, Portugal, 23-25 June 2009).
• "From Trust to E-trust: Old Theories and New Problems Solving the Ethical Dilemma of Trust", Twenty fourth North American Conference on Computing and Philosophy (NA-CAP'08), Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 9-12 July 2008).
• "Modelling Trust in Artificial Distributed Systems", Sixth European conference on Computing and Philosophy (ECAP'08), University for Science and Technology (Montpellier, France, 16-18 June 2008).
• "A Praxical Solution for the Symbol Grounding Problem", Twenty third North American Computing and Philosophy Conference (NA-CAP'07), Loyola University, (Chicago, USA, 26-28 July 2007).
• "The Problems of Trust: a Review of the Main Theories of Trust", Fifth European Conference on Computing and Philosophy (E-CAP'07), University of Twente, (Enschede, Netherlands, 21-23 June 2007).
• "Has the Symbol Grounding Problem been solved?", Fourth European Conference on Computing and Philosophy (E-CAP'06), Norwegian University for Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway, 22-24 June 2006).

Invited Talks

• “A prioritised multi-modal polymorphic type theory for formalising trusted communicationss”, (with G. Primiero) Second International Workshop on Philosophy of Information, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey, 19-24 May 2010) .
• “Levels of Responsibility in Informational Conflicts”, James Martin Advanced Research Seminar Series (Oxford, UK, 12 May 2010).
• “An Information-based Solution for the Puzzle of Testimony and Trust”, Workshop on Philosophy of the Information and Computing Sciences, Lorentz Center (Leiden, The Netherlands, 8-12 February 2010).
• “Toward an Analysis of e-Trust in Distributed Artificial Systems”, INSEIT lecture at Eighth International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE’09), Ionian Academy (Corfu, Greece, 26-28 June 2009) .
• “e-Trust: A new perspective for Its Anlysis”, Workshop on Philosophy of Virtuality: Deliberation, Trust, Offence and Virtues, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway, 9-13 March 2009).
• “Epistemological Implications of the Praxical Solution for the Symbol Grounding Problem”, University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia 28 August 2007).

Editorial Work

• “Special Issue 'The case of e-Trust: A New Ethical Challenge', Ethics and Information Technology, Springer.
• “Special Issue 'Trust in Technology', Knowledge,Technology & Policy, Springer.

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