The Ethics of Information by Luciano Floridi

By Luciano Floridi

Luciano Floridi develops an unique moral framework for facing the recent demanding situations posed through info and communique applied sciences (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly replaced many elements of lifestyles, together with the character of leisure, paintings, verbal exchange, schooling, wellbeing and fitness care, commercial creation and enterprise, social relatives, and conflicts. they've got had an intensive and common influence on our ethical lives and on modern moral debates. Privacy,
ownership, freedom of speech, accountability, technological determinism, the electronic divide, and pornography on-line are just the various urgent matters that characterise the moral discourse within the details society. they're the topic of knowledge Ethics (IE), the recent philosophical quarter of
research that investigates the moral influence of ICTs on human lifestyles and society.

Since the seventies, IE has been a regular subject in lots of curricula. lately, there was a flourishing of recent collage classes, foreign meetings, workshops, expert agencies, really expert periodicals and examine centres. in spite of the fact that, investigations have thus far been principally encouraged via specialist and technical ways, addressing normally felony, social, cultural and technological difficulties. This publication is the 1st philosophical monograph totally and exclusively
dedicated to it.

Floridi lays down, for the 1st time, the conceptual foundations for IE. He does so systematically, via pursuing 3 goals:

a) a metatheoretical target: it describes what IE is, its difficulties, ways and methods;
b) an introductory aim: it is helping the reader to achieve a greater take hold of of the complicated and multifarious nature of many of the recommendations and phenomena with regards to machine ethics;
c) an analytic objective: it solutions numerous key theoretical questions of significant philosophical curiosity, bobbing up from the research of the moral implications of ICTs.

Although solely self reliant of The Philosophy of knowledge (OUP, 2011), Floridi's earlier booklet, The Ethics of data enhances it as new paintings at the foundations of the philosophy of information.

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