The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

by Himma, Kenneth E.; Tavani, Herman T.

• ISBN13: 9780471799597
• ISBN10: 0471799599
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Summary

This handbook provides an accessible overview of the most important issues in information and computer ethics. It covers: foundational issues and methodological frameworks; theoretical issues affecting property, privacy, anonymity, and security; professional issues and the information-related professions; responsibility issues and risk assessment; regulatory issues and challenges; access and equity issues. Each chapter explains and evaluates the central positions and arguments on the respective issues, and ends with a bibliography that identifies the most important supplements available on the topic.

Author Biography

Kenneth Einar HIMMA, PhD, JD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University. His research interests include legal philosophy, applied ethics, information ethics, and computer ethics. Dr. Himma has authored more than 100 scholarly articles, encyclopedia entries, book reviews, and op-ed newspaper pieces, as well as a book, Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking, and Society.

Herman T. Tavani, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy at Rivier College (New Hampshire) and President of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT). He also holds appointments as a visiting lecturer at Boston College and as a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Tavani is the author, editor, or coeditor of five books, including Ethics and Technology (Wiley), now in its second edition.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Contributors	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xxiii
Foundational Issues and Methodological Frameworks	p. 1
Foundations of Information Ethics	p. 3
Milestones in the History of Information and Computer Ethics	p. 25
Moral Methodology and Information Technology	p. 49
Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems	p. 69
Theoretical Issues Affecting Property, Privacy, Anonymity, and Security	p. 103
Personality-Based, Rule-Utilitarian, and Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property	p. 105
Informational Privacy: Concepts, Theories, and Controversies	p. 131
Online Anonymity	p. 165
Ethical Issues Involving Computer Security: Hacking, Hacktivism, and Counterhacking	p. 191
Professional Issues and the Information-Related Professions	p. 219
Information Ethics and the Library Profession	p. 221
Ethical Interest in Free and Open Source Software	p. 245
Internet Research Ethics: The Field and Its Critical Issues	p. 273
Health Information Technology: Challenges in Ethics, Science, and Uncertainty	p. 293
Ethical Issues of Information and Business	p. 311
Responsibility Issues and Risk Assessment	p. 337
Responsibilities for Information on the Internet	p. 339
Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation	p. 361
Genetic Information: Epistemological and Ethical Issues	p. 385
The Ethics of Cyber Conflict	p. 407
A Practical Mechanism for Ethical Risk Assessment - A SoDIS Inspection	p. 429
Regulatory Issues and Challenges	p. 473
Regulation and Governance of the Internet	p. 475
Information Overload	p. 497
Email Spam	p. 517
The Matter of Plagiarism: What, Why, and If	p. 533
Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing	p. 553
Access and Equity Issues	p. 571
Censorship and Access to Expression	p. 573
The Gender Agenda in Computer Ethics	p. 589
The Digital Divide: A Perspective for the Future	p. 621
Intercultural Information Ethics	p. 639
Index	p. 667
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