Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing
with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly changed many aspects of
life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication,
education, health care, industrial production and business, social
relations, and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread
impact on our moral lives and on contemporary ethical debates.
Privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, responsibility,
technological determinism, the digital divide, and pornography
online are only some of the pressing issues that characterise the
ethical discourse in the information society. They are the subject
of Information Ethics (IE), the new philosophical area of research
that investigates the ethical impact of ICTs on human life and
society. Since the seventies, IE has been a standard topic in many
curricula. In recent years, there has been a flourishing of new
university courses, international conferences, workshops,
professional organizations, specialized periodicals and research
centres. However, investigations have so far been largely
influenced by professional and technical approaches, addressing
mainly legal, social, cultural and technological problems. This
book is the first philosophical monograph entirely and exclusively
dedicated to it. Floridi lays down, for the first time, the
conceptual foundations for IE. He does so systematically, by
pursuing three goals: a) a metatheoretical goal: it describes what
IE is, its problems, approaches and methods; b) an introductory
goal: it helps the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and
multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related
to computer ethics; c) an analytic goal: it answers several key
theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from
the investigation of the ethical implications of ICTs. Although
entirely independent of The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011),
Floridi's previous book, The Ethics of Information complements it
as new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.
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