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A Pragmatic Evaluation of the Theory of Information Ethics

It has been argued that moral problems in relation to Information Technology (IT) require new theories of ethics. In recent years, an interesting new theory to address such concerns has been proposed, namely the theory of Information Ethics (IE). Despite the promise of IE, the theory has not enjoyed...

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Autor principal: Siponen, Mikko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7088304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32214885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-005-6710-5
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description It has been argued that moral problems in relation to Information Technology (IT) require new theories of ethics. In recent years, an interesting new theory to address such concerns has been proposed, namely the theory of Information Ethics (IE). Despite the promise of IE, the theory has not enjoyed public discussion. The aim of this paper is to initiate such discussion by critically evaluating the theory of IE.
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spelling pubmed-70883042020-03-23 A Pragmatic Evaluation of the Theory of Information Ethics Siponen, Mikko Ethics Inf Technol Article It has been argued that moral problems in relation to Information Technology (IT) require new theories of ethics. In recent years, an interesting new theory to address such concerns has been proposed, namely the theory of Information Ethics (IE). Despite the promise of IE, the theory has not enjoyed public discussion. The aim of this paper is to initiate such discussion by critically evaluating the theory of IE. Kluwer Academic Publishers 2005-09-15 2004 /pmc/articles/PMC7088304/ /pubmed/32214885 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-005-6710-5 Text en © Springer 2005 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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