Faculty Fellow
Daniela Tafani is a fixed-term researcher of Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa. She has been a research fellow at the University of Bologna. She is a member of the board of directors of the Italian Association for the promotion of Open Science (AISA). She is vice-president of the Italian Society of Kantian Studies (Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani). She is a member of the editorial board of the journal ‘Bollettino telematico di filosofia politica’ and of the Scientific Committee of the journal ‘Zeitschrift für Rechtsphilosophie’. She is a member of the Italian Society for the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. She has worked on Kantian moral philosophy (Virtù e felicità in Kant, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 2006), the philosophy of law in German idealism (Beiträge zur Rechtsphilosophie des deutschen Idealismus, Berlin, Lit Verlag, 2011), the relationship between ethics and law in the 20th century (Distinguere uno Stato da una banda di ladri. Etica e diritto nel XX secolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014), and contemporary libertarian paternalisms. Her current research interests include Kant’s moral philosophy and the ethics and politics of artificial intelligence.
Among her recent publications:
- Do AI systems have politics? Predictive optimisation as a move away from the rule of law, liberalism and democracy, postprint, forthcoming in «Ethics & Politics», https://zenodo.org/records/10866778.
- A chi servono i generatori di linguaggio, «Alternative per il socialismo», 71, 2024, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10697969.
- Sistemi fuori controllo o prodotti fuorilegge? La cosiddetta «intelligenza artificiale» e il risveglio del diritto, «Bollettino telematico di filosofia politica», 2023, https://btfp.sp.unipi.it/it/2023/05/sistemi-fuori-controllo-o-prodotti-fuorilegge/.
- L’«etica» come specchietto per le allodole. Sistemi di intelligenza artificiale e violazioni dei diritti “Bollettino telematico di filosofia politica», 2023, https://commentbfp.sp.unipi.it/letica-come-specchietto-per-le-allodole/.
- Predictive optimisation systems do not work, and they infringe rights. so why do we use them?, «Journal of Law, Market & Innovation», 2, 3, 2023, https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/JLMI/article/view/8890.