The computer revolution and the problem of global ethics

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-190

  Gorniak Kocikowska, Krystyna ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer ethics; Computer revolution; Global ethics; Industrial revolution; Printing revolution; Professional ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010151513     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02583552     Document Type: Article

References (26)

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2. Heim, Michael (1993) The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
3. Moor, James H. (1991) Is Ethics Computable? Manuscript, written after 1991.
4. The fact that print did not revolutionize life in China the way it did in Europe is itself a subject of interesting analyses.
5. In 1481, Caxton translated from French into English The Miracle of the World, a popular account of astronomy and other science.
6. Grun, Bernard (1982) The Timetables of History. A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events. Based on Werner Stein's Kulturfahrplan, Simon and Schuster - A Touchstone Book, New York, p. 217.
7. In 1637, "Geometrie" by René Descartes was published. In 1638, Galileo's "Discorsi e Dimonstrazioni Matematiche." In 1639, Gerard Desargues published his book on modern geometry.
8. The timetable for the Industrial Revolution varies greatly depending on sources and criteria. The one chosen by Moor is popular, but the view that the Industrial Revolution started with the invention of the printing press is popular as well.
9. Dialogue - A New Utopia? (in German). In Conceptus. Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Jhg XX, Nr. 51/1986, p. 99-110. English translations published in Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe; Princeton, Vol. VI, No. 5, October 1986, p. 13-29 and in Dialectics and Humanism; Warsaw, Vol. XVI, No. 3-4/1989, p. 133-147.
10. Dialogue - A New Utopia? (in German). In Conceptus. Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Jhg XX, Nr. 51/1986, p. 99-110. English translations published in Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe; Princeton, Vol. VI, No. 5, October 1986, p. 13-29 and in Dialectics and Humanism; Warsaw, Vol. XVI, No. 3-4/1989, p. 133-147.
11. Dialogue - A New Utopia? (in German). In Conceptus. Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Jhg XX, Nr. 51/1986, p. 99-110. English translations published in Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe; Princeton, Vol. VI, No. 5, October 1986, p. 13-29 and in Dialectics and Humanism; Warsaw, Vol. XVI, No. 3-4/1989, p. 133-147.
12. Escarpit, Robert (1969) Rewolucja ksiazki, translated from French by Jerzy Panski; Warsaw. French original: La revolution du livre; Paris, UNESCO 1965. English: The Book Revolution, 1966.
13. Escarpit, Robert (1969) Rewolucja ksiazki, translated from French by Jerzy Panski; Warsaw. French original: La revolution du livre; Paris, UNESCO 1965. English: The Book Revolution, 1966.
14. Escarpit, Robert (1969) Rewolucja ksiazki, translated from French by Jerzy Panski; Warsaw. French original: La revolution du livre; Paris, UNESCO 1965. English: The Book Revolution, 1966.
15. As you can see, from my point of view things happened very much the way Thomas Kuhn speaks about the paradigm shift.
16. Neil Postman (p. 13) comments as follows on the first known instance of grading students papers (at Cambridge University, in 1792): "...The idea that a quantitative value should be assigned to human thoughts was a major step toward constructing a mathematical concept of reality. If a number can be given to the quality of a thought, then a number can be given to the qualities of mercy, love, hate, beauty, creativity, intelligence, even sanity itself." (my bold - K.G.K) Postman, Neil (1993) Technopoly. The Surrender of Culture to Technology, New York, Vintage Books A Division of Random House.
17. Zemanek, Heinz (1986) Wird der Computer die Naturwissenschaft rehumanisieren? In: Leinfellner, Werner & Wuketits, Franz M: Die Aufgaben der Philosophie in der Gegenwart. Proceedings of the 10th International Wittgenstein Symposium, August 18 - 25, 1985 Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria; Wien, Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, p. 33-38. The paper was presented in German.
18. Johnson, Deborah G. (1994) Computer Ethics, second edition; Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
19. There are opponents of such an idea, e.g. Hubert Dreyfus, as well as enthusiasts, e.g., scientists whose interests are neurocomputers. Dreyfus, Hubert L. (1992) What Computers Still Can't Do. A Critique of Artificial Reason, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, London.
20. Caudill, Maureen & Butler, Charles (1990) Naturally Intelligent Systems, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
21. On the other hand, the USA network TV news broadcasted (on March 19, 1995) the information that the scientists from Beijing, China, deny the possibility of re-creation of extinct species from DNA any time soon.
22. Poinar, George & Poinar, Roberta (1994) The Quest for Life in Amber, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA.
23. Lasch, Christopher (1995) The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London.
24. Broad, William J. (1993) Doing Science on the Network: A Long Way From Gutenberg. The New York Times; Tuesday, May 18.
25. Forester, Tom & Morrison, Perry (1990) Computer Ethics. Cautionary Tales and Ethical Dilemmas in Computing, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
26. Grun, Bernard (1982) The Timetables of History. A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events. New, updated edition. Based on Werner Stein's Kulturfahrplan, Simon and Schuster Touchstone Edition, New York.