The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

A 2010 introduction to the field, with discussions on a range of topics including privacy, ownership and freedom of speech.

Luciano Floridi (Edited by)

9780521717724, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 15 April 2010

342 pages, 2 b/w illus. 3 tables
24.7 x 17.4 x 1.6 cm, 0.68 kg

"...This is a rich and fascinating book, bringing to interpretative debates much that has been hitherto unknown. The chapters are long and complex, and the argument is multidimensional and far-reaching."
--George L?z?roiu, PhD, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, New York, Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice

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, first published in 2010, 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.

Preface Luciano Floridi
Part I. Introduction and Background: 1. Ethics after the information revolution Luciano Floridi
2. The historical roots of information and computer ethics Terrell Ward Bynum
Part II. Ethical Approaches: 3. Values in technology and disclosive computer ethics Phil Brey
4. The use of normative theories in computer ethics Jeroen van den Hoven
5. Information ethics Luciano Floridi
Part III. Ethical Issues in the Information Society: 6. Social issues in computer ethics Bernd Carsten Stahl
7. Rights and computer ethics John Sullins
8. Conflict, security and computer ethics John Arquilla
9. Personal values and computer ethics Alison Adam
10. Global information and computer ethics Charles Ess and May Thorseth
11. Computer ethics and applied contexts John Weckert and Adam Henschke
Part IV. Ethical Issues in Artificial Contexts: 12. The ethics of IT artefacts Vincent Wiegel
13. Artificial life, artificial agents, virtual realities: technologies of autonomous agency Colin Allen
14. On new technologies Steve Clarke
Part V. Metaethics: 15. The foundationalist debate in computer ethics Herman Tavani
Epilogue: the ethics of the information society in a globalised world Luciano Floridi.

Subject Areas: Computer science [UY], Philosophy [HP]