Foundations of Information Ethics

The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-23

  Floridi, Luciano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"information ethics" (IE) foundation; IE informational products ethics; Informational entities and artificial agents as moral agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350235300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470281819.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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