Computer ethics

The study of the ethical issues related to computer use developed primarily in the 1980s, but computer ethics, as the field became known, flourished in the following decades. This book contains articles on the important issues, organised into sections on the history and nature of computer ethics, cyberspace, values and technology, and more.

The study of the ethical issues related to computer use developed primarily in the 1980s, but computer ethics, as the field became known, flourished in the following decades. This book contains articles on the important issues, organised into sections on the history and nature of computer ethics, cyberspace, values and technology, and more.

Computer Ethics -- Its History and Nature:Norbert Wiener on the information society; Norbert Wiener (1960), Some moral and technical consequences of automation; D. Parker (1968), Rules of ethics in information processing; Joseph Weizenbaum (1969), The two cultures of the computer age; Joseph Weizenbaum (1972), On the impact of the computer on society; James H. Moor (1985), What is computer ethics?; R. Mason (1986), Four ethical issues of the information age; Geoffrey Brown (1991), Is there an ethics of computing; Donald Gotterbarn (1992), The use and abuse of computer ethics; Luciano Floridi (1999), Information Ethics: On the theoretical foundations of computer ethics / T.W. Bynum (2004), Ethical challenges to citizens of 'The Automatic Age' -- Gian Maria Greco and Luciano Floridi (2004), The tragedy of the digital commons; Herman Tavani (2004), Balancing intellectual property rights and the intellectual commons: A Lockean analysis; Dean Cocking and Steve Matthews (2001), / Cyberspace.