The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

by Edited by Luciano Floridi

• ISBN13: 9780521888981
• ISBN10: 0521888980
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, healthcare, industrial production and business, social relations and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact on our moral lives and hence on contemporary ethical debates. The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics provides an ambitious and authoritative introduction to the field, with discussions of a range of topics including privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, responsibility, technological determinism, the digital divide, cyber warfare, and online pornography. It offers an accessible and thoughtful survey of the transformations brought about by ICTs and their implications for the future of human life and society, for the evaluation of behaviour, and for the evolution of moral values and rights. It will be a valuable book for all who are interested in the ethical aspects of the information society in which we live.

Author Biography

Luciano Floridi is Professor and Research Chair in Philosophy of Information, University of Hertfordshire; Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford University; and UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics. His publications include Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction (1999) and The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information (2004).

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Introduction and background
Ethics after the Information Revolution	p. 3
The historical roots of information and computer ethics	p. 20
Ethical approaches
Values in technology and disclosive computer ethics	p. 41
The use of normative theories in computer ethics	p. 59
Information ethics	p. 77
Ethical issues in the information society
Social issues in computer ethics	p. 101
Rights and computer ethics	p. 116
Conflict, security and computer ethics	p. 133
Personal values and computer ethics	p. 149
Global information and computer ethics	p. 163
Computer ethics and applied contexts	p. 181
Ethical issues in artificial contexts
The ethics of IT-artefacts	p. 201
Artificial life, artificial agents, virtual realities: technologies of autonomous agency	p. 219
On new technologies	p. 234
Metaethics
The foundationalist debate in computer ethics	p. 251
Epilogue: The ethics of the information society in a globalized world	p. 271
References	p. 284
Index	p. 313
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