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

@article{citeulike:3639565, abstract = {Abstract\ \ I describe the emergence of Floridi's philosophy of information (PI) and information ethics (IE) against the larger backdrop of Information and Computer Ethics (ICE). Among their many strengths, PI and IE offer promising metaphysical and ethical frameworks for a global ICE that holds together globally shared norms with the irreducible differences that define local cultural and ethical traditions. I then review the major defenses and critiques of PI and IE offered by contributors to this special issue, and highlight Floridi's responses to especially two central problems – the charge of relativism and the meaning of \&\#8249;entropy' in IE. These responses, conjoined with several elaborations of PI and IE offered here by diverse contributors, including important connections with the naturalistic philosophies of Spinoza and other major Western and Eastern figures, thus issue in an expanded and more refined version of PI and IE – one still facing important questions as well as possibilities for further development.}, author = {Ess, Charles}, citeulike-article-id = {3639565}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-008-9172-8}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/p165l16312351266}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1007/s10676-008-9172-8}, journal = {Ethics and Information Technology}, keywords = {ethics, floridi, information, philosophy}, month = {September}, number = {2}, pages = {89--96}, posted-at = {2009-08-27 16:43:29}, priority = {5}, title = {Luciano Floridi's philosophy of information and information ethics: Critical reflections and the state of the art}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-008-9172-8}, volume = {10}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3639565 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3639565 N2 - Abstract  I describe the emergence of Floridi’s philosophy of information (PI) and information ethics (IE) against the larger backdrop of Information and Computer Ethics (ICE). Among their many strengths, PI and IE offer promising metaphysical and ethical frameworks for a global ICE that holds together globally shared norms with the irreducible differences that define local cultural and ethical traditions. I then review the major defenses and critiques of PI and IE offered by contributors to this special issue, and highlight Floridi’s responses to especially two central problems – the charge of relativism and the meaning of ‹entropy’ in IE. These responses, conjoined with several elaborations of PI and IE offered here by diverse contributors, including important connections with the naturalistic philosophies of Spinoza and other major Western and Eastern figures, thus issue in an expanded and more refined version of PI and IE – one still facing important questions as well as possibilities for further development. IS - 2 JF - Ethics and Information Technology EP - 96 TI - Luciano Floridi’s philosophy of information and information ethics: Critical reflections and the state of the art VL - 10 SP - 89 KW - ethics KW - floridi KW - information KW - philosophy AU - Ess, Charles PY - 2008/09/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-008-9172-8 ER -