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Information Technology and Moral Philosophy
Information technology is an integral part of the practices and insti-
tutions of postindustrial society. It is also a source of hard moral ques-
tions and thus is both a probing and a relevant area for moral theory.
In this volume, an international team of philosophers sheds light
on many of the ethical issues arising from information technology,
including informational privacy, the digital divide and equal access,
e-trust, and teledemocracy. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how
accounts of equality and justice and property and privacy benefit
from taking into account how information technology has shaped
our social and epistemic practices and our moral experiences. Infor-
mation technology changes the way we look at the world and deal
with one another. It calls, therefore, for a re-examination of notions
such as friendship, care, commitment, and trust.
Jeroen van den Hoven is professor of moral philosophy at Delft Uni-
versity of Technology. He is editor-in-chief of Ethics and Information
Technology,amember of the IST Advisory Group of the European
Community in Brussels, scientific director of the 3TU Centre for
Ethics and Technology in herlands, and coauthor, with Dean
Cocking, of Evil Online.
John Weckert is a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philos-
ophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is
editor-in-chief of NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies That Converge at the
Nanoscale and has published widely in the field puter ethics.
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Information Technology and
Moral Philosophy
Edited by
JEROEN VAN DEN HOVEN
Delft University of Technology, herlands
JOHN WECKERT
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