Distributed Morality in an Information Society

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 727-743

  Floridi, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed morality; Information and communication technologies; Information ethics; Infraethics; Moral enablers; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MORALITY;

GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MORALS;

EID: 84883795065     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 16605454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-012-9413-4     Document Type: Article

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