Mapping the foundationalist debate in computer ethics

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-9

  Floridi, Luciano ^a   Sanders, J W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WOLFSON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer ethics; Information and communication technology; Information ethics; Macroethics; Metaethics; Microethics; Policy vacuum; Uniqueness debate

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ETHICS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION ETHICS; MACROETHICS; METAETHICS; MICROETHICS; UNIQUENESS DEBATE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FOUNDATIONS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; VACUUM;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 0242554915     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015209807065     Document Type: Article

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