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Laura L. Pană
Laura Pana graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, the University of Bucharest, and continued her dissertation paper in Philosophy of Action and Philosophy of Conscience with a doctoral thesis in Philosophy of Action and Sociology of Knowledge. This research direction was continued later by articles such as An Integrative Model of Brain, Mind, Cognition and Consciousness (2008) and Consciousness as A Third-Order Information State (2008). She first taught the Philosophy of Science and Social Philosophy. She was hired at the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, where she still teaches today. In this context, she wrote five books in the field of the Philosophy of Technical Culture (two of which she coordinated). After the computational turn in philosophy, she dealt with the Philosophy of Computing, the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, the Philosophy of Artificial Environment – the PHILOSOPHY OF THE ARTIFICIAL, in general –, using skills from the field of psychology as well, such as the Cognitive Psychology and Psychology of Intelligence and Creativity. She participated in five editions of the European Conference on Computing and Philosophy and attended a Congress and four Conferences on Cybernetics and Systems. Her recent book, illustrative of the possibilism she adopted in her studies, is called Possibility, Infinity, Predictability, and follows other books such as Social and Technological Prognosis (which also forms a handbook for a Masters of Studies course). A new research area had been opened by her, through the work INTELLECTICS AND INVENTICS that is also illustrated by studies such as Knowledge Management and Intellectual Techniques - Intellectual Invention and Its Forms (2006), and Social Invention and Change Management (2009). Her researches in Socio-Cybernetics and especially in complex human and artificial intelligent systems and their social interaction are capitalized in the new research field of SOCIOMATICS. A more recently addressed research direction, which include Tehnoethics, Information Ethics and Machine Ethics, led her to the initiation of a discipline she called ARTIFICIAL ETHICS, which is illustrated by works such as Co-evolution of Human and Artificial Moral Agents, as well as Human and Artificial Agents with Moral Intelligence or Artificial Ethics – An Emergent Technoethical Field and A Common Way for Human and Artificial Moral Agents. All these studies can also be seen as steps in researching and implementing sociomatic systems. The new WORLD OF VIRTUAL WORK is now approached by her in studies such as From Information Flows and Nets to Knowledge Groups and Works (2007), or New Thinking Types Associated with the Virtual Work Environment (2012), and as participant or director in multiannual grants such as K-TEAMS - Knowledge-based analysis and support of interaction in virtual teams in problem solving context (2006 – 2008), and Values practiced in working groups and virtual communities created on the web.
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