Morality and Machines: Perspectives on Computer Ethics

✍ Scribed by Stacey L. Edgar

• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 539
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intended for science and technology students, philosophy students interested in applied ethics, and others who must deal with computers and the impact they have on our society.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 18
Part One: Ethical Foundations......Page 28
1 Ethical Decision Making......Page 30
2 Is Ethics Possible?......Page 50
3 The Search for a Basis for Ethics......Page 72
Part Two: Ethics Applied to a Computerized World......Page 114
4 Software Piracy, Property, and Protection......Page 116
5 Computer Crime......Page 184
6 Computer Intruders, Viruses, and All That......Page 218
7 Privacy......Page 270
8 Errors and Reliability......Page 310
9 The Computer World Of Work......Page 340
10 Responsibility, Liability, Law, and Professional Ethics......Page 392
11 Computers, the Government, and the Military......Page 416
12 The Artificial Intelligensia and Virtual Worlds......Page 460
Appendix A......Page 494
Appendix B......Page 502
Appendix C......Page 512
Bibliography......Page 514
Index......Page 524