Born
1945 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Academic Degrees / Professional Experience
Licentiate
in Philosophy from Colegio
Máximo, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
(1970).
Diploma
in Documentation from Lehrinstitut
für Dokumentation, Frankfurt
am Main,
Germany (1973).
Research
worker at Zentralstelle für Atomkernenergie-Dokumentation
(ZAED), Karlsruhe, Germany (1974-75).
Dr.phil. in Philosophy from Düsseldorf
University (1978). Thesis: Information.
Information
management at Fachinformationszentrum
Karlsruhe, Germany (1980-85).
Postdoctoral
teaching qualification (Habilitation) in Practical Philosophy (Ethics)
from Stuttgart
University
(1989).Thesis: Hermeneutik
der Fachinformation ("Hermeneutics of scientific information")
Lecturer / Privatdozent
at the Institute of Philosophy, Stuttgart
University
(1987-2004).
Professor
(em.) of
information management and
information ethics at Stuttgart Media University
Germany
(1986-2009).
Steinbeis-Transfer-Institute
Information Ethics (STI-IE),
Director (2008-2013)
CAPURRO
FIEK FOUNDATION
Founder
COMMUNITIES
MEMBERSHIPS
FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
Distinguished
Researcher in
Information Ethics, School of Information
Studies, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
(2010-2012).
Distinguished
Researcher at the ACEIE,
Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa
(since 2012).
Co-Editor
ICIE-Series
on Information Ethics (2002-) Munich: Fink Verlag.
Editors: Rafael Capurro, Thomas
Hausmanninger
Schriftenreihe Medienethik
(2002-). Stuttgart: Franz
Steiner Verlag
Editors: Rafael
Capurro, Petra Grimm
Member of the Editorial Board
Information
Science and Knowledge Management (Springer)
Ed.
John Mackenzie Owen
JOURNALS
triple C
Eds. Christian Fuchs, Wolfgang Hofkirchner
Foundations of Information
Science
Information
Ethics
Bioethics
Information Management
Message Theory ("angeletics")
Philosophy
of Media
Hermeneutics
Interviews
/ Podcasts /
Video
Podcast
of the lecture "Beyond
Humanisms" at the Uehiro/Carnegie/Oxford Conference 2010, Uehiro
Centre for Practical Ethics, St. Cross College, Oxford.

New Dilemmas, Same Principles: Changing Landscape Requires
IT Ethics to Go Mainstream by George Lawton (Computing
Now, News, July 2009).
On Internet Rights and Values. Podcast
with Max Senges,
Germany (2009).
Interview
mit Michal Lorenz, Czech Republic (2009).
International
Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT): Member Spotlight (2008).
Keynote address:
"Interpreting the Digital Human" to the conference "Thinking
Critically: Alternative Perspectives and Methods in Information Studies"
organized by the Center for
Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Wisconsin, May 15-17, 2008. For a video of this lecture please klick here.
Open
Forum Davos 2008 in cooperation with the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum
and the Schweizerischer
Evangelischer Kirchebund, Section: "Virtual Worlds: Fiction or
Reality?", Participants: Philip Rosedale
(CEO, Linden Labs/Second Life), Joseph Weizenbaum
(MIT, USA), Reid
Hoffman (President, LinkedIn Corp., USA), Florence
Develey (Reinach/Basel), Rafael Capurro (HdM). Moderation: Loïc Le Meur (Seesmic, USA), Davos,
26. January 2008: World
Economic Forum: Webcasts, Podcasts, Vodcasts. Open Forum Davos: Blog
-> Webcast.
On
Hermeneutics, Angeletics, and Information Technology: Questions and
Tentative Answers Interview mit Tadashi Takenouchi, Japan (2003).
See also here.
Events & Publications
Events
2013
2012
- TABULA RASA (EU Project Trusted
Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks), Symposium, Rome May 3-4, 2012
-
Workshop
on Intercultural Information Ethics, Tsukuba University, Japan, October
4-5, 2012.
Publications (in English)
2013
Medicine
in the Information and Knowleldge Society
In: Proceedings of the European
Summit for Clinical Nanomedicine and Targeted Medicine
(forthcoming).
Information Ethics.
In Byron Kaldis (ed.): Encyclopedia
of Philosophy and the Social
Sciences, Sage Publ. 2013.

Rafael
Capurro, Michael Eldred and Daniel
Nagel: Digital
Whoness: Identity, Privacy and Freedom in the Cyberworld. Frankfurt: Ontos 2013

See
a short version of this book at J. Buchmann (Ed.) Internet-Privacy
(2012) with my contributions:
The Quest for Information Ethics and Roboethics in East and West ed. by
Makoto Nakada and Rafael Capurro. Research Report on
trends in information ethics and roboethics in Japan and the West.
ReGIS (Research Group on the Information Society) and ICIE
(Internatinal Center for Information Ethics), March 31, 2013.

An
Intercultural Dialogue on Roboethics (Makoto Nakada and Rafael
Capurro). In: Makoto Nakada and Rafael Capurro (eds.): The Quest for
Information Ethics and Roboethics in East and West. Research Report on
trends in information ethics and roboethics in Japan and the West.
ReGIS (Research Group on the Information Society) and ICIE
(Internatinal Center for Information Ethics), March 31, 2013, 13-22.
2012
Ethical Issues of
Online Social Neworks in Africa .
Rafael
Capurro, Michael Eldred and Daniel Nagel: IT
and Privacy from an ethical perspective: Digital Whoness: Identity,
Privacy and Freedom in the Cyberworld in Johannes Buchmann (ed.) Internet
Privacy - Eine multidisziplinäre Bestandsaufnahme / A
multidisciplinary analysis. Berlin:
Acatech 2012, pp. 63-142. Printed version:
Springer 2012.
Toward
a
Comparative Theory of Agents. Contribution to the Panel Autonomic
Computing, Human Identity and Legal Subjectivity organized by Mireille Hildebrandt and
Antoinette
Rouvroy. In: AI & Society, Vol. 27, 4 (2012), 479-488.
Beyond Humanisms.
In:Toru Nishigaki and Tadashi Takenouchi (eds.): Information Ethics.
The Future of the Humanities. Nagoya City: V2Solution Publisher 2012,
26-74.
2011
- Beyond Humanisms. In: Rafael Capurro
and John Holgate (Eds.): Messages and Messengers.
2010
- Contributions to the Glossarium
BITri (Glossary of concepts, metaphors, theories and problems
concerning INFORMATION)
- Ethics
and Public Policy in Europe. In Stefano Rodotà and Paolo
Zatti (Eds.): Trattato di Biodiritto. Vol.1 Stefano Rodotà and
Mariachiara Talllacchini (Eds.): Ambito e fonti del biodiritto. Milano:
Giuffrè Editore, 2010, 849-860.
Some of the
keynote
speakers at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society
(IEEE
ISTAS) pictured (in ascending order) are Amal Graafstra, Dr Roger
Clarke, Dr
Mark Gasson and Professor Rafael Capurro along with the conference
committee
chair, Gene Hoffnagle. Photo by: Zac Gatland
- In search of a code of global information ethics:
The road travelled and new horizons (R. Capurro and Johannes Britz). In
Ethical
Space (2010) vol. 7, No. 2/3, 28-36.
- Conference
Neuroscience and European and North American Case Law organized by the Interdepartmental Research Centre
ECLSC, University of Pavia, in cooperation with the Court of Milan,
Keynote: Ethical Aspects of ICT Implants in the Human Body (PP), Milano, 17.
September 2010..
2009
- Digital
Ethics (PowerPoint),
Seoul, Korea, December 3,
2009.
- Ethics & Robots:
West & East (PowerPoint),
Cybenics,
University of Tsukuba, Japan, September 30, 2009.
- Past, Present and Future
of the Concept of Information (2009).
- Ethics and Robotics: An
Intercultural
Perspective (PowerPoint),
University of Tsukuba, Japan, October 3, 2009.
- Ethics
of synthetic biology (Rapporteurs R. Capurro, J. Kinderlerer, P.
Martinho da Silva, P. Puigdomenech Rosell), Brussels, 2009.
- Intercultural
Information Ethics in Asia (PowerPoint),
University of Tsukuba, Japan, October 5, 2009.
- Ethics and Robotics (R.
Capurro & Michael Nagenborg, Eds.), IOS Press (2009).

- Information
Ethics: Current and
Future Research Areas, Masaryk University, Division of Information
and Library Studies, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2, 2009. (PowerPoint)
- Intercultural Information Ethics in Asia (2009) (PowerPoint)
- Towards a Comparative Theory
of Agents In: Proceedings of the panel on Autonomic Computing, Human Identity and
Legal Subjectivity hosted by
Mireille Hildebrandt and Antoinette Rouvroy (forthcoming).
- The
Public / Private Debate. A
Contribution to Intercultural
Information Ethics (Makoto Nakada and Rafael Capurro). In:
Rocci
Luppicini and Rebecca Adell (Eds.): Handbook of Research in
Technoethics, Hershey PA: IGI Global, 2009, 339-353.
- Past,
present, and
future of the concept of information. In: triple
C (2009) (pdf)
2008
- Keynote address "Interpreting the Digital
Human" to the conference "Thinking
Critically: Alternative Perspectives and Methods in Information Studies"
organized by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for
Information Policy Research, Wisconsin, May 17, 2008. Published
in the conference proceedings. For a video of this lecture please klick here.
- Lecture on "Intercultural Information
Ethics" given at the conference "Thinking
Critically: Alternative Perspectives and Methods in Information Studies"
organized by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for
Information Policy Research, Wisconsin, May 16, 2008. For a video of this lecture please click here.
- Techno-Ethical
Case-Studies in Robotics, Bionics, and Related AI Agent Technologies
(R. Capurro, G. Tamburrini, J. Weber), ETHICBOTS, D5, 2008.
- Go Glocal. Intercultural
Comparison of Leadership Ethics In: EGE
Newsletter "Ethically Speaking" Issue No. 10, 2008, 9-11.
- On Floridi's
Metaphysical Foundation of Information Ecology. In:
Ethics and Information Technology (2008)
- Information Ethics for and
from Africa. In: Journal of the ASIST, 59(7): 1-9, 2008 (See also IRIE, 2007).
- Open
Forum Davos 2008 in cooperation with the Annual Meeting of the World Economic
Forum co-organized by the Council of
Swiss Protestant Churches, Section: "Virtual Worlds: Fiction or
Realityt?", Paricipants: Philip
Rosedale (CEO Linden
Labs/Second Life), Joseph Weizenbaum
(Professor em. of Computer Science, MIT, USA), Reid Hoffman
(President LinkedIn Corp., USA), Florence
Develey (Pastor, Reinach/Basel), Rafael Capurro (HdM).
Moderation: Loïc Le Meur
(Seesmic, USA), Davos, 26 of January 2008: World
Economic Forum: Webcasts, Podcasts, Vodcasts. Open Forum Davos: Blog.
-> Webcast
- Intercultural
Information Ethics. In Einar Himma and Herman T. Tavani (Eds.): Handbook
of Information and Computer Ethics. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley
& Sons
(2008), 639-665.
- Intercultural Information Ethics:
Foundations and Applications. In: Journal of Information,
Communication
and Ethics in Society Vol. 6, Number 2, (2008), 116-126.
- International
Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT)
2007
- Book Review: Soraj
Hongladarom & Charles Ess (eds.): Information Technology Ethics:
Intercultural Perspectives (2007)
- Intercultural
Information Ethics. A Dialogue (M. Nakada / R. Capurro) (2007)
- Ethics
and
Robotics (2007)
- The Thought of Information Ethics (2007) (PowerPoint)
- EGE Opinion 21:
Ethical Aspects of Nanomedicine (2007) (PowerPoint)
- Rafael
Capurro, Johannes Frühbauer, Thomas
Hausmanninger (Eds.): Localizing
the Internet. Ethical Aspects in
Intercultural Perspective (2007)
2006
2005
2004
- The German Debate on the Information
Society In: Journal of
Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, volume 2,
supplement 2004, p 17-18.
- Between Trust
and Anxiety. On the Moods of Information Society. In: Proceedings
of
the Conference "The Age of
Information: New Anxieties - New Opportunities" Institute
of Communication Ethics Lincoln,
UK, June 14, 2004.
- Ethics Between Law and Public
Policy.
In: Journal of
International Biotechnology Law (JIBL) (2004) Vol. 1, Issue 2 / 2004,
62-66.
- Skeptical
Knowledge Management In: Hans-Christoph Hobohm (Ed.):
Knowledge Management. Libraries and Librarians Taking Up the Challenge.
IFLA Publication 108, Munich:
Saur
2004, 47-57.
2003
- Passions
of the Internet and the Art of Living. Paper presented at a
colloquium organized by The
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of
Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (USA), September 19-24, 2003.
- Angeletics
- A Message Theory. In: Hans H. Diebner, Lehan Ramsay (Eds.):
Hierarchies of Communication, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
(2003), 58-71.
- Engineering
Humans. In: World Technology
Intelligence
(2003), Issue VI, p.16.
- On Hermeneutics, Angeletics
and Information Technology (2003).
- The
Concept of Information (Co-author: Birger Hjørland). In:
Blaise
Cronin
(Ed.): Annual
Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), Vol. 37
(2003)
Chapter 8, 343-411.
2002
- The European Group
on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE). In: Claude
Debru, Charles Galperin, Philippe Meyer (Eds.): Für
Europäische Grundwerte in der Bioethik. Pour une bioéthique
européenne. Annales d'histoire et de philosophie du vivant.
Paris: Le Seuil 2002, 123-128.
- Philosophical
Presuppositions of Producing and Patenting Organic Life. A
Phenomenological
Approach. Paper to be presented at the European Ethics Summit
Conference: Sustaining
Humanity Beyond Humanism, European Parliament, Brussels, 29-30
August
2002.
- Ethics
and Public Policy within a Digital Environment. In: I.
Alvarez, T. W. Bynum, J.A. de Assis Lopes, S. Rogerson (Eds.):
Proceedings
of the Sixth International Conference: The Transformation of
Organisations
in the Information Age: Social and Ethical Implications, ETHICOMP
2002, Lissabon 13-15 November 2002. Lisboa: Universidade
Lusíada
2002, 319-327.
- Ethical
Issues of Online Communication Research (R. Capurro, Christoph
Pingel).
In: Ethics and
Information
Technology (2002) Vol. 4, Issue 3, 189-194.
2001
2000
1999
- Beyond
the Digital Paper presented at the International Festival for
Film Video and Media Symposium (VIPER
99), "Cut & Copy," Lucerne (Switzerland), October 29-30, 1999.
- Ethical
Aspects of Digital Libraries. In: Tatjana Aparac, Tefko Saracevic,
Peter
Ingwersen, Pertti Vakkari (Eds.): Digital Libraries. Interdisciplinary
Concepts,
Challenges
and Opportunities, Zagreb, Proceedings of the CoLIS 3 Conference, Lokve
1999, 39-53.
- Is
a Unified Theory of Information Feasible? A Trialogue (Co-authors:
Peter Fleissner, Wolfgang Hofkirchner). In: W. Hofkirchner (Ed.): The
Quest for
a Unified Theory of Information. World Futures General Evolution
Studies, Ervin Laszlo (Ed.),
vol. 13,
Overseas Publishers
Assoc. 1999, 9-30.
1998 - 1985
- Stable
Knowledge? Paper presented at the Workshop: Knowledge for
the Future - Wissen für die Zukunft, Brandenburgische
Technische
Universität Cottbus, Zentrum für Technik und
Gesellschaft,
March 19-21, 1997.
- Information
Technology and Technologies of the Self. In: Journal of Information
Ethics, Fall 1996, Vol. 5, No. 2, 19-28.
- On
the Genealogy of Information. In: Klaus Kornwachs, Konstantin
Jacoby (Eds.):
Information
- New Questions to a Multidisciplinary Concept. Berlin: Akademie Verlag
1996, 259-271.
- On
Artificiality. In: IMES (Ist. Metodologico, Economico, Statistico),
Università di Urbino (Italy), IMES-LCA WP-15 November 1995.
- Informatics
and Hermeneutics. In: Christiane Floyd, Heinz Züllighoven,
Reinhard Budde, Reinhard
Keil-Slawik
(Eds.): Software Development and Reality Construction. Berlin:
Springer,
1992, 363-375.
- What
is Information Science for? A Philosophical Reflection. In: Pertti
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Blaise Cronin (Eds.): Conceptions of Library and Information Science.
London:
Taylor Graham 1992, 82-96.
- On Reliability
and Unreliability. A Dialogue. In: Rainer Rilling et al. (Eds.):
Challenges.
Science and Peace in a Rapidly Changing Environment. Intern. Congress
of
Scientists and Engineers. Berlin 29.11.-1.12. 1991 (Schriftenreihe
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und Frieden, Nr. 16, August 1992) Vol. II, 177-179.
- Towards
an Information Ecology. In: Irene Wormell (Ed.): Information and
Quality.
London: Taylor Graham 1990, 122-139.
- Technics,
Ethics, and the Question of Phenomenology. In: A-T. Tymieniecka
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