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.

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INTRODUCTION: The Italian Philosophy of TechnologySimona Chiodo and Viola Schiaffonati
Part I: Culture, Society and PoliticsOedipus' StickMaurizio Ferraris
Ethics and ICTs Beyond Analytic and Continental PhilosophyAdriano Fabris
The Ontological Interpretation of Informational PrivacyLuciano Floridi
On the Meaning of Technology's DominationEmanuele Severino
Machine, Culture, and RobotCarlo Sini

Part II: Philosophy OF LawComputation, Cybernetics and the Law at the Origins of Legal InformaticsGiuseppe Contissa, Francesco Godano and Giovanni Sartor
On the Principle of Privacy by Design and its Limits: Technology, Ethics and the Rule of LawUgo Pagallo
Law as an Artifact: An AssessmentCorrado Roversi
Technical NormativityAlberto Artosi

Part III: Philosophy of ScienceResearch Programs Based on Machine Intelligence GamesGuglielmo Tamburrini and Francesco Altiero
Robots and Bionic Systems as Experimental Platforms for the Study of Animal and Human BehaviourEdoardo Datteri
Knowledge as Duty. Morality in a Technological World: A New Philosophical StanceLorenzo Magnani

Part IV: AestheticsArt Inside TechnologyMario Costa
Ontology of the VirtualRoberto Diodato
Techno-aesthetics and Forms of the ImaginationPietro Montani