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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Luciano Floridi |
ISBN: | 9780199641321 0199641323 |
OCLC Number: | 894996570 |
Description: | xix, 357 s. : illustrations ; |
Contents: | 1. ETHICS AFTER THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION ; 2. WHAT IS INFORMATION ETHICS? ; 3. THE METHOD OF ABSTRACTION ; 4. INFORMATION ETHICS AS E-NVIRONMENTAL ETHICS ; 5. INFORMATION ETHICS AND THE FOUNDATIONALIST DEBATE ; 6. THE INTRINSIC VALUE OF THE INFOSPHERE ; 7. THE MORALITY OF ARTIFICIAL AGENTS ; 8. THE CONSTRUCTIONIST VALUES OF HOMO POIETICUS ; 9. ARTIFICIAL EVIL ; 10. THE TRAGEDY OF THE GOOD WILL ; 11. THE INFORMATIONAL NATURE OF SELVES ; 12. THE ONTOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF INFORMATIONAL PRIVACY ; 13. DISTRIBUTED MORALITY ; 14. INFORMATION BUSINESS ETHICS ; 15. GLOBAL INFORMATION ETHICS ; 16. A DEFENCE OF INFORMATION ETHICS ; EPILOGUE |
Responsibility: | Luciano Floridi |
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Floridi's book challenges standard ethics. In standard ethics, life has priority in moral evaluation. However, in Floridi's Information Ethics, information systems are equal in moral value to living systems. Floridi develops his Ethics as part of a new ontological theory of the Infosphere. * Sheldon Richmond, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review * In this groundbreaking work, Luciano Floridi builds the foundations of Information Ethics (IE) by arguing that an informational interpretation of reality is required due to our increased reliance on information and communication technologies (ICTs) for our well-being and success. * Brendan Rowe, The Review of Metaphysics * Read more...

