The Ethics of Information Warfare

✍ Scribed by Luciano Floridi, Mariarosaria Taddeo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Series: Law, Governance and Technology Series 14
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers an overview of the ethical problems posed by Information Warfare, and of the different approaches and methods used to solve them, in order to provide the reader with a better grasp of the ethical conundrums posed by this new form of warfare.

The volume is divided into three parts, each comprising four chapters. The first part focuses on issues pertaining to the concept of Information Warfare and the clarifications that need to be made in order to address its ethical implications. The second part collects contributions focusing on Just War Theory and its application to the case of Information Warfare. The third part adopts alternative approaches to Just War Theory for analysing the ethical implications of this phenomenon. Finally, an afterword by Neelie Kroes - Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner - concludes the volume. Her contribution describes the interests and commitments of the European Digital Agenda with respect to research for the development and deployment of robots in various circumstances, including warfare.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Fog in the Fifth Dimension: The Ethics of Cyber-War....Pages 3-23
The Future Impact of a Long Period of Limited Cyberwarfare on the Ethics of Warfare....Pages 25-37
Is Warfare the Right Frame for the Cyber Debate?....Pages 39-59
Technology, Information, and Modern Warfare: Challenges and Prospects in the 21st Century....Pages 61-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Permissible Preventive Cyberwar: Restricting Cyber Conflict to Justified Military Targets....Pages 73-83
Moral Cyber Weapons....Pages 85-103
The Ethics of Cyberattack....Pages 105-122
Information Warfare and Just War Theory....Pages 123-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The Wrong in Cyberattacks....Pages 141-154
Virtue in Cyberconflict....Pages 155-168
Armed Robots and Military Virtue....Pages 169-185
Deception and Virtue in Robotic and Cyber Warfare....Pages 187-201
Erratum....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 203-211

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Technology; Computers and Society; Political Theory