Transition to Digital Ethics

A Primer from Philosophy to Practice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-49382-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

As digital technologies become more pervasive and powerful, they raise increasingly pressing ethical questions that need to be understood and addressed.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the important field of digital ethics. It explores topical examples of ethical problems created by the technology and shows how ethical ideas and values can be used to make sense of them. It provides the readership a clear, well-researched insight into the various issues under the banner of ‘digital ethics’, including how each of these issues relate to different technologies such as AI, smartphones, and automated decision-making (to say the least). This is coupled with contemporary ideas on ameliorating ethical harm and risk which are grounded in philosophical thought, presented in an accessible way.

The book will benefit those who design and implement digital technologies and, more broadly, anyone with an interest in the compelling ethical and social issues arising from digital technologies. It carefully and clearly describes the philosophical ideas as well as technical considerations behind contemporary digital technology use, to provide the reader with a solid footing for further exploration of this rapidly expanding field.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheong, Marc

Coghlan, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Spiele-Programmierung, Rendering, Animation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. The Changing State of Play: What are we Concerned With? 3. What is the Problem with Tech? 4. Philosophical and Ethical Theory 5. Being (Digitally) Ethical 6. No Silver Bullet 7. Moving Forward

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Cheong is a Deputy Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) and a Senior Lecturer of Information Systems (Digital Ethics) at the University of Melbourne, and an Honorary Burnet Institute Senior Fellow. His research interests are in social media; bridging philosophy/ethics and IS; and societal implications of technology; amongst others.

Simon Coghlan is a Deputy Director of CAIDE and a Senior Lecturer of Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He is a moral philosopher and a former veterinarian. His research interests are in AI ethics, including how AI affects humans, animals, and the environment, and in robot ethics, including the ethics of human interactions and relations with machines.