Luciano Floridi's philosophy of information and information ethics: Critical reflections and the state of the art

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 89-96

  Ess, Charles ^a,b  

^a DRURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Computer ethics; Discourse ethics; Ethical pluralism; Ethical relativism; Information and computing ethics (ICE); Information ethics; Level of Abstraction (LoA); Philosophical naturalism; Philosophy of information

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ETHICS; DISCOURSE ETHICS; ETHICAL PLURALISM; ETHICAL RELATIVISM; INFORMATION AND COMPUTING ETHICS (ICE); INFORMATION ETHICS; LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; PHILOSOPHICAL NATURALISM; PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION;

ICE; RELATIVITY;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 56549105421     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-008-9172-8     Document Type: Article

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