Overview
- Presents interdisciplinary and comprehensive analyses of both theoretical and applied problems
- Focuses explicitly on ethics of information warfare
- Identifies key issues and approaches in the debate on the ethics of information warfare
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 14)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Analysing Information Warfare
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Front Matter
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Information warfare and virtue
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Armed Robots and Military Virtue
- Cyber security
- Ethics of Cyberattack
- Ethics of Warfare
- Information warfare
- Just Information Warfare
- Just war theory
- Justified Military Targets
- Limited Cyber warfare
- Moral Cyber Weapons
- Permissible Preventive Cyberwar
- Restricting Cyber Conflict
- Technology, Information, and Modern Warfare
- The Ethics of Cyber-war
- Virtue in Cyber conflict
- Virtue in Robotic and Cyber Warfare
About this book
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.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This compilation reviews the distinctive issues associated with informational warfare—war waged through new information and communications technologies (ICTs). ICTs are used to improve the strategies of conventional war by aiding intelligence gathering, coordinating weapons and troops, and disseminating wartime propaganda. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.” (D. Hurst, Choice, Vol. 52 (5), January, 2015)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ethics of Information Warfare
Editors: Luciano Floridi, Mariarosaria Taddeo
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04135-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 Chapter 5 and 6 were created within the capacity of an US governmental employment. US copyright protection does not apply. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04134-6Published: 08 April 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38006-3Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04135-3Published: 25 March 2014
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 211
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Computers and Society, Political Theory