The ethics of information / Luciano Floridi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Floridi, Luciano, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information policy.

Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 357 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Luciano Floridi develops the first ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). He establishes the conceptual foundations of Information Ethics by exploring important metatheoretical and introductory issues, and answering key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of most common acronyms""; ""List of figures""; ""List of tables""; ""Chapter 1 Ethics after the information revolution""; ""Summary""; ""1.1 Introduction: the hyperhistorical predicament""; ""1.2 The zettabyte era""; ""1.3 ICTs as re-ontologizing technologies""; ""1.4 The global infosphere, or how information is becoming our ecosystem""; ""1.5 The metaphysics of the infosphere""; ""1.6 The information turn as the fourth revolution""; ""1.7 The evolution of inforgs""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 2 What is information ethics?""

""Summary""""2.1 Introduction: a unified model of information ethics""; ""2.2 First stage: IE as an ethics of informational resources""; ""2.3 Second stage: IE as an ethics of informational products""; ""2.4 Third stage: IE as an ethics of the informational environment""; ""2.5 Fourth stage: IE as a macroethics""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 3 The method of abstraction""; ""Summary""; ""3.1 Introduction: on the very idea of levels of abstraction""; ""3.2 The definition of a level of abstraction""; ""3.3 Abstraction and ontological commitment""

""3.4 An application of the method of abstraction: telepresence""""3.4.1 Presence as epistemic failure""; ""3.4.2 Presence as successful observation""; ""3.4.3 Virtual pornography""; ""3.4.4 An objection against presence as successful observation""; ""3.4.5 Informational privacy: from intrusion to abduction""; ""3.4.6 The method of abstraction and telepresence""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 4 Information ethics as e-nvironmental ethics""; ""Summary""; ""4.1 Introduction: the foundationalist problem""; ""4.2 Classic macroethics and ICTs ethical problems""

""4.3 An informational model of macroethics""""4.4 From computer ethics to information ethics""; ""4.5 Information ethics as a patient-oriented and ontocentric theory""; ""4.5.1 Uniformity of Being""; ""4.5.2 Uniformity of nothingness, non-Being, or metaphysical entropy""; ""4.5.3 Uniformity of change""; ""4.5.4 The ontological equality principle""; ""4.6 The normative aspect of information ethics: four ethical principles""; ""4.6.1 The non-monotonic nature of goodness and its resilience""; ""4.7 Information ethics as a macroethics""; ""4.7.1 IE is a complete macroethics""

""4.7.2 IE and other non-standard ethics""""4.7.3 IE and virtue ethics""; ""4.7.4 IE and deontologism""; ""4.7.5 IE and consequentialism""; ""4.8 Case analysis: three examples""; ""4.8.1 Vandalism""; ""4.8.2 Bioengineering""; ""4.8.3 Death""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 5 Information ethics and the foundationalist debate""; ""Summary""; ""5.1 Introduction: looking for the foundations of computer ethics""; ""5.2 The �no resolution approach�: CE as not a real discipline""; ""5.3 The professional approach: CE as a pedagogical methodology""; ""5.4 Theoretical CE and the uniqueness debate""

""5.5 The radical approach: CE as a unique discipline""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-102327-2

0-19-874805-1

0-19-176093-5

0-19-150246-4

OCLC:

921055564