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It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries  \n© Luciano Floridi 2013  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted First Edition published in 2013  \nImpression: 1  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above  \nYou must not circulate this work in any other form  \nand you must impose this same condition on any acquirer  \nPublished in the United States of America by Oxford University Press  \n198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nData available  \nISBN 978–0–19–964132–1  \nAs printed and bound by  \nCPI group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY  \nLinks to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work.  \nContents  \nPreface xii  \nAcknowledgements xvii  \nList of most common acronyms xx  \nList offigures xxi  \nList of tables xxii  \nChapter 1—Ethics after the information revolution 1  \nSummary 1  \n1.1 Introduction: the hyperhistorical predicament 3  \n1.2 The zettabyte era 5  \n1.3 ICTs as re-ontologizing technologies 6  \n1.4 The global infosphere, or how information is becoming our ecosystem 8  \n1.5 The metaphysics of the infosphere 10  \n1.6 The information turn as the fourth revolution 13  \n1.7 The evolution of inforgs 14  \nConclusion 17  \nChapter 2—What is information ethics? 19  \nSummary 19  \n2.1 Introduction: a unified model of information ethics 20  \n2.2 First stage: IE as an ethics of informational resources 21  \n2.3 Second stage: IE as an ethics of informational products 23  \n2.4 Third stage: IE as an ethics of the informational environment 24  \n2.5 Fourth stage: IE as a macroethics 25  \nConclusion 28  \nChapter 3—The method of abstraction 29  \nSummary 29  \n3.1 Introduction: on the very idea of levels of abstraction 30  \n3.2 The definition ofa level of abstraction 31  \n3.3 Abstraction and ontological commitment 34  \n3.4 An application of the method of abstraction: telepresence 36  \n3.4.1 Presence as epistemic failure 37  \n3.4.2 Presence as successful observation 41  \n3.4.3 Virtual pornography 44  \n3.4.4 An objection against presence as successful observation 46  \nvi CONTENTS  \n3.4.5 Informational privacy: from intrusion to abduction 49  \n3.4.6 The method of abstraction and telepresence 51  \nConclusion 51  \nChapter 4—Information ethics as e-nvironmental ethics 53  \nSummary 53  \n4.1 Introduction: the foundationalist problem 54  \n4.2 Classic macroethics and ICTs ethical problems 58  \n4.3 An informational model of macroethics 61  \n4.4 From computer ethics to information ethics 63  \n4.5 Information ethics as a patient-oriented and ontocentric theory 65  \n4.5.1 Uniformity of Being 65  \n4.5.2 Uniformity of nothingness, non-Being, or metaphysical entropy 65  \n4.5.3 Uniformity of change 67  \n4.5.4 The ontological equality principle 68  \n4.6 The normative aspect of information ethics: four ethical principles 70  \n4.6.1 The non-monotonic nature of goodness and its resilience 72  \n4.7 Information ethics as a macroethics 74  \n4.7.1 IE is a complete macroethics 74  \n4.7.2 IE and ot","cbCaimX2sAzbU4pd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimX2sAzbU4pd","pdf",2180492,380,"English","# Preface\n# Acknowledgements\n# List of most common acronyms\n# List of figures\n# List of tables\n# Chapter 1—Ethics after the information revolution\n## Summary\n# Chapter 2—What is information ethics?\n## Summary\n# Chapter 3—The method of abstraction\n## Summary\n# Chapter 4—Information ethics as e-nvironmental ethics\n## Summary\n# Chapter 5—Information ethics and the foundationalist debate\n## Summary\n# Chapter 6—The intrinsic value of the infosphere\n## Summary\n# Chapter 7—The morality of artificial agents\n## Summary","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the book?\",\"answer\":\"The book focuses on building and clarifying information ethics, explaining how moral reasoning should address informational resources, products, and environments created or shaped by ICTs.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book develop the concept of information ethics over stages?\",\"answer\":\"It presents a staged development: information ethics as an ethics of informational resources, then informational products, then the informational environment, culminating in a macroethical view.\"},{\"question\":\"What method does the book emphasize for analyzing complex informational phenomena?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes the method of abstraction, including applications to telepresence and issues such as informational privacy, to connect conceptual levels with ethical analysis.\"}]","The Ethics of Information - Summary | PDF",1791851037,133]