标题:3rd ICTs and Society Meeting; Paper Session - Theorizing the Internet; Paper 4: A Methodological Reflection on Converging Technologies and Their Relevance to Informa-tion Ethics
期刊名称:tripleC : Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society
印刷版ISSN:1726-670X
出版年度:2010
卷号:8
期号:2
页码:130-132
语种:English
出版社:University of Salzburg
摘要:Normal 0 0 1 117 672 5 1 825 11.768 0 21 0 0 In light of converging technologies, there is a clear sense that ethicists of various technological domains are coming together. Or, that they should come together. Yet, despite increasing cooperation and boundary-crossing in various fields of the ethics of technology, these efforts remain mostly at topical level. Relatively little attention has been given to issues on methodologies. The current paper aims to contribute to the current research by raising the methodological issues. In this paper, my objective is to argue that ethics of Information Technology (or Information Ethics (IE)) can benefit from the insights in other fields of the ethics of technology. Drawing the insights from other fields of the ethics of technology, I shall propose a systematic account of an Empirical Information Ethics (EIE)
关键词:Converging Technologies; Information Technology; Information Ethics; Ethics of Technology; Bioethics; Empirical Ethics; Empirical Information Ethics; Well-Being