ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the work of Luciano Floridi, who has made a major contribution to the philosophy of information in many areas. Floridi differentiates his approach from traditional ethical models. The chapter examines a complex and evocative quotation about privacy: In the same way as the digital revolution is best understood as a fundamental re-ontologization of the infosphere, informational technology requires an equally radical reinterpretation. The infosphere is one of Floridi's neologisms and is a central concept in his work. Floridi has a different conception of self that stresses both human creativity and the idea that humans are informational organisms. Floridi refers to humans as a species as "homo poeisis", creative humans, making it a defining feature of "who we are" that leaves open what can be achieved. This emphasis upon human ability disrupts Hannah Arendt's division between "zoon politikon" and "homo faber" and between public and private.
