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  • 5 - Information ethics

  • Edited by Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    15 April 2010, pp 77-98

  • Summary

    Information Ethics (IE) has come to mean different things to different researchers working in a variety of disciplines, including computer ethics, business ethics, medical ethics, computer science and information science. The chapter explores what IE is and what counts as a moral agent and moral patient according to IE. It questions our responsibilities as moral agents, according to IE and the fundamental principles of IE. The resource-product-target (RPT) model, summarized in this chapter, helps one to get some initial orientation in the multiplicity of issues belonging to different interpretations of IE. The chapter also gives an overview of Information Ethics understood as a macroethics. Since the early nineties, when the author first introduced IE as an environmental macroethics and a foundationalist approach to computer ethics, some standard objections have circulated that seem to be based on a few basic misunderstandings.