Overview
- Addresses issues of life on the net key to anyone interested in understanding this phenomenon
- Advances highly original views as to key determinants of life on the net
- Is one of few books dealing with the ethical consequences of interacting on the net rather than face-to-face
- Applies advanced philosophical analysis in the study of life on the net
- The philosophical approach taken warrants strictness and clarity of analysis
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The basic premise
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Action, explanation and cyberspace
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Explaining the basic premise
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Back Matter
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About this book
Over the last few decades information and communication technology has come to play an increasingly prominent role in our dealings with other people. Computers, in particular, have made available a host of new ways of interacting, which we have increasingly made use of. In the wake of this development a number of ethical questions have been raised and debated. Ethics in Cyberspace focuses on the consequences for ethical agency of mediating interaction by means of computers, seeking to clarify how the conditions of certain kinds of interaction in cyberspace (for example, in chat-rooms and virtual worlds) differ from the conditions of interaction face-to-face and how these differences may come to affect the behaviour of interacting agents in terms of ethics.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book will interest students of modern ethics, psychology, and the human factors of cyberspace. … Ploug’s work is best suited for a graduate seminar. … if there is a need for face time in ethics and human interactions, this book is a valuable first step." (Brad Reid, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2009)
“A book on the ethics of interactions in cyberspace is both timely and important. … written in three sections, nine chapters and is designed to appeal to different readerships. … Ploug … more interested in ethical theory. His interest is in the logical relationships between different properties in cyberspace, how we establish and act on our beliefs about others, our beliefs about the world … . To my mind, these are all important questions of epistemology, including for phenomenologists.” (Erich von Dietze, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 14 (12), March, 2010)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethics in Cyberspace
Book Subtitle: How Cyberspace May Influence Interpersonal Interaction
Authors: Thomas Ploug
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2370-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2369-8Published: 15 May 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8492-7Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2370-4Published: 21 April 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 223
Topics: Computers and Society, Epistemology, Philosophy of Technology, Metaphysics, Ethics