Open AccessInformation Ethics – A Position Paper
Author(s) -
Rafael Capurro
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international review of information ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-5638
DOI - 10.29173/irie269
Subject(s) - information ethics , engineering ethics , summit , foundation (evidence) , perspective (graphical) , information society , computer ethics , sociology , nursing ethics , applied ethics , meta ethics , epistemology , political science , computer science , engineering , philosophy , law , artificial intelligence , physical geography , geography
The paper describes some of the main ethical challenges of information society as currently discussed within the framework of the World Summit on the Information Society. It addresses the question of ‘what is information ethics?’ under a twofold perspective. In a large sense information ethics is said to deal with ethical questions related to all kinds of digital phenomena including all non-digital but digitalized or digitalizable phenomena. In a narrower sense information ethics deals with ethical questions of human communication within a digital environment. A non-metaphysical foundation of information ethics in the narrower sense (‘nethics’ or Internet ethics) is given. Curricula targets are briefly outlined.