Introduction -/- I. Recent Research in Roboethics II. Intercultural Robethics III. Roboethics and Digital Ontology IV. "Robotopia Nipponica" V. Ethics of Robot Cars VI. Open Roboethics Initiative VII. Cyber warfare VIII. Healthcare Robots IX. Robot Law X. Social Robotics -/- Conclusion -/- References -/- Annex 1: Conferences and Workshops Annex 2: Korean Robot Ethics Charter Annex 3: Selected Recent Publications.

La concezione del tempo costituisce uno dei modelli portanti di ogni cultura e civiltà. Intorno ad essa gravitano rituali, visioni metafisiche, organizzazione sociale, espressioni dell’immaginario e, in sintesi, i significati stessi dell’esistere. Le molteplici versioni che si sono susseguite attraverso tutto l’arco dello sviluppo umano possono essere sintetizzate in quattro categorie, ognuna segnata da un’immagine spazializzata. La figura del cerchio come segno di una versione naturalistica della temporalità che prevede il ritorno ciclico, circolare appunto, degli eventi.

The paper presents, firstly, a brief review of the long history\nof information ethics beginning with the Greek concept of parrhesia\nor freedom of speech as analyzed by Michel Foucault. The recent concept\nof information ethics is related particularly to problems which arose\nin the last century with the development of computer technology and\nthe internet. A broader concept of information ethics as dealing\nwith the digital reconstruction of all possible phenomena leads to\nquestions relating to digital ontology. Following Heidegger{\textquoteright}s\nconception of the relation between ontology and metaphysics, (...) the\nauthor argues that ontology has to do with Being itself and not just\nwith the Being of beings which is the matter of metaphysics. The\nprimary aim of an ontological foundation of information ethics is\nto question the metaphysical ambitions of digital ontology understood\nas today{\textquoteright}s pervading understanding of Being. The\nauthor analyzes some challenges of digital technology, particularly\nwith regard to the moral status of digital agents. The author argues\nthat information ethics does not only deal with ethical questions\nrelating to the infosphere. This view is contrasted with arguments\npresented by Luciano Floridi on the foundation of information ethics\nas well as on the moral status of digital agents. It is argued that\na reductionist view of the human body as digital data overlooks the\nlimits of digital ontology and gives up one basis for ethical orientation.\nFinally issues related to the digital divide as well as to intercultural\naspects of information ethics are explored {\textendash} and long\nand short-term agendas for appropriate responses are presented. (shrink)

O objetivo do presente trabalho é investigar o panorama da filosofia italiana dos séculos XIX e XX e a respectiva influência germânica por ela sofrida, avaliando ainda a articulação do idealismo italiano e a crítica ao cristianismo produzida na Itália nesse período. Para tanto, dividiremos nosso artigo em duas partes principais: na primeira, investigaremos o idealismo italiano e a crítica à religião na Itália entre os séculos XIX e XX, dando especial ênfase a dois dos seus principais autores: Benedetto Croce (...) e Giovanni Gentile. Já na segunda parte, investigaremos a influência de três pensadores do idealismo germânico na Itália desse período, a saber, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard e Nietzsche, bem com a sua recepção em contexto italiano e sua importância para o idealismo local. (shrink)

This essay looks at the relationship between formative aesthetics, language and the historical anticipation that begins with Antonio Gramsci's discussion of Kant's idea of noumenon. In Gramsci both education (as formazione) and aesthetics stem from a concern for power in terms of the hegemonic relations that are inherent to history as a political horizon. The title cites Gramci's suggestion that Kant's noumenon should be read as a proviso set apart by a ‘relative ignorance’ of reality [‘relativa ignoranza’ della realtà] to (...) be resolved by a future science. Yet far from another epistemological layering, a future science must also resolve those hegemonic relations of power that emerge from formation as a political act figured in the agonistic character of language as lingua and linguaggio. Further down the lane of our ‘relative ignorance’ we are confronted by a Post-Taylorist condition that precludes any false hopes of a reversal of society's educational, economic and political misfortunes. Yet, while Post-Taylorism confirms that this state of affairs is irreversible, a deeper inquiry into the aesthetic-agonistic character of formation could afford us answers that are in no way solutions but, because adept to struggle and are characteristically aesthetical, might provide an understanding of the logic of irreversibility. Because it remains conscious of its ‘relative ignorance’, this assumption offers a hopeful approach that comes to us sideways; thereby avoiding the predicament of what Lyotard and Thébaud regarded as a condition where ‘the prescriptive is derived from the descriptive’. (shrink)

O artigo analisa a questão do “fim da filosofia” no pensamento contemporâneo. Demarcando o embate da filosofia consigo mesma, com a ciência e com alguns pensadores da atualidade que ousaram tematizar o fim, busca, pela reflexão ética, restabelecer a filosofia como um autêntico saber humano. Palavras-chave: Filosofia; Ciência; Ética; Auto-superação; Niilismo. ABSTRACT This article analyses the issue of ‘the end of philosophy’ in contemporary thought. Setting the framework for the confrontation of philosophy with itself, with science and with some present-time (...) thinkers who dare to predict its end, it attempts to re-establish, through ethical reflection, philosophy as an authentic human knowledge. Key words: Philosophy; Science; Ethics; Self-surpassing; Nihilism. (shrink)