| Sumario: | This editorial introduces the best papers from the Conference CEPE 2025 (Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry), held in September at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in collaboration with INSEIT, the IHRC of the University of Corfu, and UPEACE. The six collected papers converge on a single philosophical question: what remains of the moral and rational subject when its cognitive, deliberative, and identity-forming functions are progressively mediated or substituted by artificial systems? Dolcini defends deliberative autonomy as the condition of genuine moral enhancement; Gaya denies that algorithmic directionality can ground moral status in AI; Morelli argues that algorithmic accountability requires publicly justifiable normative reasons rather than functional descriptions; Cadelo shows that recommendation systems reshape personal identity by replacing Ricoeurian narrative with statistical profiling; Fenici and Lavazza and Noa Cohen agree that outsourcing argumentative writing to LLMs constitutes a surrender of a constitutive cognitive practice through the erosion metacognitive abilities, by blurring the boundary between one's own cognitive resources and those of the machine. These degradations poses a direct ethical threat to human autonomy and the conditions required for informed decision-making. Engaging the resources of moral and political philosophy -- Kant, Rawls, Ricoeur, Habermas, Forst, Floridi, Searle -- all six papers articulate a reasoned resistance to the delegation of irreducibly human normative authority to artificial systems.
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