Rafael Capurro 

German  Spanish  French  Japanese  Chinese

e-mail: rafael at capurro.de

Curriculum Vitae 

Born 1945 in Montevideo, Uruguay.


Academic Degrees and 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 at the Institute of Philosophy, Stuttgart University (1987-2004).

Professor of information management and information ethics at Stuttgart Media University Germany (since 1986).

ICIE


Founder of the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) (1999-).







Memberships


Member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) to the European Commission (2001-2004; 2005-2009)

Founding Member of The World Technology Network (WTN) (since 2002)

Research Fellow of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2003-2005).


Member of the ICT&S Center (The Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society) International Advisory Board (IAB), University of Salzburg, Austria (2005-2008).


Member of The Nanoethics Advisory Board (since 2006).


Senior Fellow in Information Ethics, 2007-2008, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.

Book Series

ICIE-Series on Information Ethics (2002-) Fink Verlag Munich (Co-Editor: Th. Hausmanninger)

Schriftenreihe Medienethik (2002-). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag (Co-Editor: P. Grimm)

"Information Science and Knowledge Management" (Springer)  ed. John Mackenzie Owen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Member of the editorial board)

Journals

International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) (2004-) (Editor in Chief)

Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação Editor Paulo da Terra Caldeira, UFMG: Escola de Ciência da Informação (Belo Horizonte). Member of the advisory board.






NanoEthics. Ethics for Technologies that converge at the nanoscale
Editor in Chief: John Weckert (2006-). Co-editor.






Cybernetics & Human Knowing. A journal of second-order cybernetics, autopoiesis and cyber-semiotics Editor S. Brier. Member of the editorial board.

Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology
Editors-in-Chief: Anthony Mark Cutter, University of Central Lancashire, UK and Berd Gordijn, Radboud University, The Netherlands. Member of the International Advisory Board.




Teaching and Research

Information Science
Information Ethics
Bioethics
Information Management
Philosophy of Media
Hermeneutics



Publications and Presentations in English


• Open Forum Davos 2008 in cooperation with the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum co-organaized by the Council of Swiss Protestant Churches, Section: "Virtual Worlds: Fiction or Realityt?", Paricipantsr: Philip Rosedale (CEO Linden Labs/Second Life), Joseph Weizenbaum (Professor em of Computer Science, MIT, USA), Reid Hoffman (Prasident 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. John Wiley & Sons (2008) (forthcoming)
  
• Book Review: Soraj Hongladarom & Charles Ess (eds.): Information Technology Ethics: Intercultural Perspectives (2007)
  
• Intercultural Information Ethics. A Dialogue (M. Nakada / R. Capurro) (2007)
  
• Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Filosofia: Workshop "L'uomo e la macchina. Passato e presente (Pisa 1967-2007)". Lecture: Ethics and Robotics (-> PowerPoint), Pisa (Italy), 17-18 May, 2007.
  
• Rafael Capurro, Johannes Frühbauer, Thomas Hausmanninger (Eds.): Localizing the Internet. Ethical Aspects in Intercultural Perspective. Schriftenreihe des ICIE Bd. 4, Munich, Fink (2007)

• EU-Project NanoBio-RAISE: 1st Advanced Course on Strategic Communication and Applied Ethics in Nanobiotechnology . Invited Speaker: "EGE Opinion No. 21: Ethical Aspects of Nanomedicine" (See: PowerPoint), St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK (2007)
  
• Information Ethics for and from Africa (2007)
  
• Go Glocal. Intercultural Comparison of Leadership Ethics (2007)
  
• Knowledge Map of Information Science (2006)
  
• Intercultural Information Ethics (2006)
• Reflections on Ethical Aspects of Nanomedicine (2006)
  
• Towards an Ontological Foundation of Information Ethics (2005)
  
• Privacy. An Intercultural Perspective. In: Ethics and Information Technology (2005)
• See: PowerPoint Presentation (long and short version) (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
  
• Passions of the Internet In: Wolfgang Palaver, Petra Steinmair-Pösel (Eds.): Passions in Economy, Politics, and the Media. In Discussion with Christian Theology. Wien: Lit Verlag 2005, 331-343.
• Does Digital Globalization Lead to a Global Information Ethic? In: Concilium  2005/1, 36-45.
  
• Special Theme Issue on Information Ethics. Computer Society of India (CSI) Communications, Vol. 28, June 2005, No. 12, Guest editors: Karsten Weber and Rafael Capurro.
• 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.
  
• 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.   
  
• 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.

• 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.
• Ethics and Information in the Digital Age (2001) Contribution to LIDA 2001 Annual Course and Conference: Libraries in the Digital Age, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 23-27 May, 2001. Course website: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida
• What is Angeletics? (2000)
• Ethical Challenges of the Information Society in the 21st Century. In: International Information & Library Review (2000), 32, 257-276. EEI21 - MEMPHIS. An Annual Scholarly Symposium 
  
• Hermeneutics and the Phenomenon of Information. In: Carl Mitcham (Ed.): Research in Philosophy and Technology, Amsterdam: JAI, Vol. 19, 2000, 79-85. 
• 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.
  
• 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 Vakkari, 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 Wissenschaft 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 (Ed.).: Morality within the Life- und Social World. Analecta Husserliana XXII (Dordrecht: Reidel 1987), 475-482.
  
• Tasks, Organisation and Activities of the Fachinformationszentrum Energie, Physik,  Mathematik. Report TRITA-LIB-1137 (Royal Institute of Technology Library, Stockholm,   Sweden) 1985.
  
• Epistemology and Information Science. Report TRITA-LIB-6023 (Royal Institute of Technology Library, Stockholm, Sweden) 1985.
  
• Moral issues in information science. In: Journal of information science 11 (1985), 113-123.