ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture
The video podcast of my talk at the University of Arizona is now available here. You can watch it while looking at the PowerPoint presentation.Here is Don Fallis' presentation:
"Information Scholar at Oxford to Lecture at UA
Type nearly any word or phrase into a World Wide Web search engine and you'll be bombarded with
millions of references and links. Even narrow inquiries into specialized medical or legal sources produce a glut of articles in today's information-rich environment. How do you know whether the information you retrieve is relevant?
The question of information relevance and how philosophy informs a theory of information relevancy will be addressed by noted philosopher and Oxford University Professor Luciano Floridi at the annual ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture. The lecture is Thursday, Feb. 8, in the Swede Johnson Building, Room 205, located at 1111 N. Cherry Avenue on The University of Arizona campus. A brief reception begins at 5:30 p.m., with the lecture to follow at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited and there is no charge for admission.
Professor Floridi is known internationally for his research in the fields of information ethics, computer ethics and the philosophy of information as well as research into the skeptical tradition. He is widely published in these fields has contributed significantly to their establishment as disciplines of study. Floridi is a Fellow of St Cross College and member of the Faculty of Philosophy and of the OUCL (Computer Science Department), University of Oxford. He also serves as coordinator of the IEG, the interdepartmental research group on the philosophy of information at the University of Oxford.
Other appointments include associate professor of logic and epistemology, dipartimento di scienze filosofiche, Universit� degli Studi di Bari; president, International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP); and director of SWIF- the Italian Web site for philosophy. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Ethics and Information Technology, Minds and Machines, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, Telematics & Informatics and is area editor (computing and information) for the editorial board of Synthese.
The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science is one of only a handful of library schools selected nationally to host the prestigious ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lectures. The lecture series is sponsored by Thomson Scientific to honor Samuel Lazerow for his long and distinguished service to the library profession. Thomson Scientific provides integrated information solutions to researchers and librarians, physicians and pharmacists, and other professionals worldwide. Professor Floridi�s visit is also supported with additional funding from The University of Arizona International Visitors Fund.
For more information, contact Don Fallis, UA School of Library and Information Science, 520-621-3565, fax: 520-621-3279 or e-mail fallis@email.arizona.edu"
The question of information relevance and how philosophy informs a theory of information relevancy will be addressed by noted philosopher and Oxford University Professor Luciano Floridi at the annual ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture. The lecture is Thursday, Feb. 8, in the Swede Johnson Building, Room 205, located at 1111 N. Cherry Avenue on The University of Arizona campus. A brief reception begins at 5:30 p.m., with the lecture to follow at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited and there is no charge for admission.
Professor Floridi is known internationally for his research in the fields of information ethics, computer ethics and the philosophy of information as well as research into the skeptical tradition. He is widely published in these fields has contributed significantly to their establishment as disciplines of study. Floridi is a Fellow of St Cross College and member of the Faculty of Philosophy and of the OUCL (Computer Science Department), University of Oxford. He also serves as coordinator of the IEG, the interdepartmental research group on the philosophy of information at the University of Oxford.
Other appointments include associate professor of logic and epistemology, dipartimento di scienze filosofiche, Universit� degli Studi di Bari; president, International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP); and director of SWIF- the Italian Web site for philosophy. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Ethics and Information Technology, Minds and Machines, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, Telematics & Informatics and is area editor (computing and information) for the editorial board of Synthese.
The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science is one of only a handful of library schools selected nationally to host the prestigious ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lectures. The lecture series is sponsored by Thomson Scientific to honor Samuel Lazerow for his long and distinguished service to the library profession. Thomson Scientific provides integrated information solutions to researchers and librarians, physicians and pharmacists, and other professionals worldwide. Professor Floridi�s visit is also supported with additional funding from The University of Arizona International Visitors Fund.
For more information, contact Don Fallis, UA School of Library and Information Science, 520-621-3565, fax: 520-621-3279 or e-mail fallis@email.arizona.edu"
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