Mario De Caro is a professor of Moral Philosophy at Roma Tre University, and regularly a visiting professor at Tufts University. He has been a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard, a Visiting Scholar at MIT, and president of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy. He is the president of the Italian Society of Moral Philosophy, a member of the executive board of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies, the literary executor of Hilary Putnam and member of the Italian Association of Philosophy executive board. He has given talks at more than one hundred universities in seventeen countries and has written seven books in Italian and edited twenty volumes He is associate editor of The Journal of the American Philosophical Association, writes for Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa, and is a consultant for ENEL on the ethics of artificial intelligence. His areas of expertise include moral philosophy, metaphysics, ethics of AI, philosophy of mind, philosophy of film, and the history of early modern philosophy.Derrick De Kerckhove is the author of world renowned booksThe Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology from 1983 until 2008. One of the world’s leading scholars on the social phenomena of the Web, after studying with Marshall McLuhan, Derrick De Kerckhove undertook in-depth research on the media’s ability to influence human perceptual reality, starting from the assumption that mass media are actually definable as psychotechnologies. He also elaborated the concepts of web hyperpertinence, in relation to the degree of relevance that specific connections establish with the content they convey, and webnwess, or a specific cognitive dimension, a real form of connective intelligence constituted by users connected to the Internet.Fran Grodzinsky is the recipient of International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT)/Joseph Weizenbaum Award in Information and Computer Ethics. This prestigious award is delivered every two years to an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of information and computer ethics through his/her research, service, and vision. The recipient’s work should have broad professional, theoretical or societal impact. Dr. Grodzinky’s teaching focus includes Computer Ethics, Software Engineering, Systems Analysis and Design, Networking, and Human Computer Interaction. Her research focuses on issues related to society and technology. She has presented internationally on topics such as autonomous agency, open source, privacy, intellectual property and the responsibility of software developers. Dr. Grodzinsky joined the Sacred Heart University faculty in 1985 and became Professor Emerita in 2018
