What Is Computer Ethics?*

Moor, James H.

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“…Thus, we have discussions on the impact of CCTV or web cookies on the right to privacy (Bennett, 2001, Marx 1998, the impact of the digital divide on the right to access information (Hacker and Mason 2003), the impact of the piracy of software on intellectual property rights (IPR) (Lipinski and Britz 2000), and so forth. In these debates Moor (1985) has argued that computers show up policy vacuums that require new thinking and the establishment of new policies. Others have argued that the resources provided by classical ethical theory such as utilitarianism, consequentialism, and deontological ethics is more than enough to deal with all the ethical issues emerging from our design and use of ICT (Gert 1999).…”

Section: The Impact Of New Media and Ict And The Application Of Ethicmentioning

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Making sense of ICT, new media, and ethics

Introna

2009

The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies

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The purpose of this article is to propose and clarify some of the different ways of seeing or approaching, as well as the implications these might have for regulators, designers, users, and researchers of ICT and new media, especially with regard to their ethical significance. Of course any clarification (classification, categorization, or analysis) is always problematic: incomplete, and often — in a sense — violent. It usually claims more than it can offer and forces the singular into a category in ways that deny the very idiosyncrasies that are often most important when approaching phenomena. Thus, it would be reasonable for the reader to take the analysis in the following presentation as incomplete, preliminary, and not definitive in any sense whatsoever.

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Section: The Impact Of New Media and Ict And The Application Of Ethicmentioning

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Making sense of ICT, new media, and ethics

Introna

2009

The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies

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“…In his seminal paper ''What is Computer Ethics?'' (Moor 1992), James Moor refers to the logical malleability of computers as the essence of the revolutionary character of computer technology, from which the need for a separate attention for computer ethics follows:…”

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“…Therefore, computer ethics is a field of substantial practical importance.'' (Moor 1992) Here the logical malleability of computers is taken as the central cause of several effects computers will have on society, and from these effects, the need for computer ethics follows. We explore what ethical issues follow from the aspect of reconfigurability in itself (hence, not just from the instantiated effects) in reconfigurable technology.…”

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“…The open functionality of reconfigurable technology and its intended wide applicability within society ['logical malleability' in the terminology of Jim Moor's seminal 1985 article Moor (1992)], require that societal and moral values are considered in the application phase. Ideally this is anticipated already in the design phase.…”

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Ethical requirements for reconfigurable sensor technology: a challenge for value sensitive design

2013

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Information technology is widely used to fulfill societal goals such as safety and security. These application areas put ever changing demands on the functionality of the technology. Designing technological appliances to be reconfigurable, thereby keeping them open to functionalities yet to be determined, will possibly allow the technology to fulfill these changing demands in an efficient way. In this paper we present a first exploration of potential societal and moral issues of reconfigurable sensors developed for application in the safety and security domain, in the context of a large scale R&D-project in the Netherlands. We discuss the subtle distinction between the relevant notions of reconfigurability, function creep, and unrestricted or unforeseen technological affordances. We argue that the feature of reconfigurability makes context of use the central issue in the assessment of the societal and moral impact of the technology. It follows that the design of good policies for new application contexts has to be central in a value sensitive design approach to reconfigurable technology.

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“…The Radical Approach is based on the Moor's policy and conceptual vacuum [23]. Floridi et al referred Maner and Mason, who qualifies computer ethics as unique and advocates new approach to deal with ethical issues created by computer ethics [24][25] [26].…”

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Computer Ethics: Job of Computer Scientist

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Beigh²

2017

IJARCSSE

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This paper reiterates the fact that computer ethics is a job of computer scientist and not philosophers. This paper is divided into three sections. First section provides with a brief explanation and discussion on the weaknesses and shortcomings of classical ethical theories like Divine command theories, Ethical Egoism, Kantianism, Utilitarianism, Social Contract Theory and Virtue Ethics, which makes them unfit for the application of computer ethics. Second section discusses the ambiguity in theories proposed for foundation of computer ethics. Third section deals with professional ethics and discusses that Computer ethics is a domain of computer scientist. This article gives a clear picture of shortcoming of traditional ethical theories and need of new theory to deal with computer ethics. This article points out flaws in theories trying to give foundation for computer ethics. We suggest professional ethics as practical and preventive measure for computer ethics that caters to its requirements. We also explores the role of computer scientist for the application of computer ethics as a profession.

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What Is Computer Ethics?*

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Making sense of ICT, new media, and ethics

Ethical requirements for reconfigurable sensor technology: a challenge for value sensitive design

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