Philosophy of Emerging Media

Edited by Juliet Floyd, Professor of Philosophy, Boston University, and Edited by James E. Katz, Feld Professor of Emerging Media, Boston University

Juliet Floyd is Professor of Philosophy, Boston University. She is the author of many articles on the history of eighteenth and twentieth century philosophy of mathematics, logic, and aesthetics and co-editor of Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth Century Philosophy (Oxford, 2001) and Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing: Turing 100 (Springer, forthcoming).

James E. Katz is the Feld Professor of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University. Co-author of numerous books, including The Social Media President: Barack Obama and The Politics of Citizen Engagement, he also holds two patents. Prior to coming to Boston University in 2012, he was the Board of Governors Professor of Communication at Rutgers University.

Bruno Ambroise is Junior Researcher in Philosophy at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is currently working on the epistemology and history of speech acts theories and pragmatics, and studying the relations between linguistic theories and social sciences. He has published many papers on Austin's philosophy, speech acts theories and pragmatics, and a book entitled Qu'est-ce qu'un acte de parole ? (Paris: Vrin, 2008).

Valérie Aucouturier is Maîtresse de Conférences in philosophy, history and epistemology of psychology at University Paris-Descartes and CERMES3. Her research lies at the intersection between contemporary philosophy of mind and action and philosophy of psychology. She recently published Qu'est-ce que l'intentionalité? (Vrin, 2012) and Elizabeth Anscombe. L'esprit en pratique (CNRS Editions, 2013).

Harvey Cormier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He is the author of The Truth Is What Works, a book on William James's theory of truth, and a number of articles on a variety of philosophical topics.

Ronald E. Day is in the Dept. of Information and Library Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research is in Documentation and Information Science. Among many other works he has written The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power and Indexing it All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data.

Ilit Ferber teaches philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. Her publications include Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language (Stanford University Press, 2013) and articles on Benjamin, Leibniz, Herder, Freud, Heidegger and Scholem. She has also co-edited Philosophy's Moods (Springer, 2011) and Lament in Jewish Thought (De Gruyter, 2014).

Marizio Ferraris is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, where he is also the director of the LabOnt (Laboratory for Ontology). He is a columnist for 'La Repubblica', the director of 'Rivista di Estetica' and the co-director of 'Critique' and the 'Revue francophone d'esthétique'.

Juliet Floyd is Professor of Philosophy, Boston University. She is the author of many articles on the history of eighteenth and twentieth century philosophy of mathematics, logic, and aesthetics and co-editor of Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth Century Philosophy (Oxford, 2001) and Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing: Turing 100 (Springer, forthcoming).

Gordon Graham is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts, and Director of the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of many philosophical papers, and his books include The Internet: a philosophical inquiry (Routledge 1999), subsequently translated into Dutch, Spanish, Greek and Korean. His most recent book is Wittgenstein and Natural Religion (Oxford University Press, 2014).

John Grey earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation on Spinoza from Boston University. He currently teaches at Michigan State University. His work has appeared in the History of Philosophy Quarterly.

John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs in the University of St Andrews. He is also Remick Senior Fellow in the Center for Ethics and Culture and the University of Notre Dame; Chairman of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, London; and Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture, Rome.

Richard H.R. Harper FRSA, FIET is Principal Researcher in Socio-Digital Systems at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England where he uses an understanding of human values to help change the technological landscape in the 21st century. He is author of Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload (MIT Press, 2010). A sociologist by training, he is concerned with how to design for "being human ", and human communication in an age when human nature is often caricatured or rendered in oversimplifying ways.

James E. Katz is the Feld Professor of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University. Co-author of numerous books, including The Social Media President: Barack Obama and The Politics of Citizen Engagement, he also holds two patents. Prior to coming to Boston University in 2012, he was the Board of Governors Professor of Communication at Rutgers University.

Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and Director for the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. Among his many interests is inferring individual behavior from aggregate data. He also co-founded Crimson Hexagon, a social media analytics software company.

Zsuzsanna Kondor is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities. Her writings comprise several main fields of research: history of philosophy, philosophy of communication, philosophy of cognition, and philosophy of images. Her publications include Enacting Images. Representation Revisited (ed.), 2013 and "Representations and Cognitive Evolution: Towards an Anthropology of Pictorial Representation " in Image: Zietschrift für Interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft 2013/14.

Victor J. Krebs is Professor of Philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University of Perú. He has published on Wittgenstein, aesthetics and psychoanalysis, and currently works on film, media and technology, and is author of Del alma y el arte (1998), La recuperación del sentido (2008), La imaginación pornográfica (2014) and contributing coeditor (with William Day) of Seeing Wittgenstein Anew (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Sybille Krämer is Professor of Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. She held guest professorships in Graz, Luzern, Tokyo, Zürich, Wien. She was Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin; currently she is member of the Senate of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and member of the Scientific Panel of the European Research Council. Her main areas of interest are philosophy of language and media theory, philosophy of rationalism, epistemology and philosophy of mind.
Lars Lundsten is a Docent at the University of Helsinki and Principal Lecturer in the Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland, where he is head of research in media ecology.

Kristóf Nyíri is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main fields of research include: the history of philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries; the impact of communication technologies on the organization of ideas and on society; the philosophy of images; the philosophy of time.
Elizabeth A. Robinson is currently an assistant professor of philosophy at Nazareth College, Rochester, New York. She received her PhD from Boston University in 2012, having written a dissertation on Kant's metaphysics and mathematics. She has published several articles, primarily addressing early modern philosophy.

David Roochnik is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He is the author of five books and some thirty articles on Ancient Greek Philosophy. His most recent work is Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis (SUNY: 2013).

John Richard Sageng is a research affiliate at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo. He is one of the founders of the "Game Philosophy Initiative " and of the conference series "The Philosophy of Computer Games ".
Peter Simons is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Manchester, and taught in the UK (Bolton, Leeds) and Austria (Salzburg). His work centres on metaphysics (pure and applied), philosophy of logic, and the history of philosophy and logic in Central Europe. He is a member of the British, European and Royal Irish Academies.

Barry Smith is known primarily for his work on applications of ontology in extra-philosophical domains such as biology and biomedicine, defense and security. Most recently he has been working on what he calls the "theory of document acts ", which he views as a new subfield of social ontology.

Neal Thomas is an Assistant Professor of media and technology studies in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. With interests that generally lie at the intersection of social computing and social theory, his research focuses on the formal, cultural and semiotic dimensions of algorithms.