The relationship between the uniqueness of computer ethics and its independence as a discipline in applied ethics |
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| Authors: | Kenneth Einar Himma |
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| Institution: | (1) Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell?Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via De Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy;(2) Scuola di Robotica, Piazza Monastero 4, 16149 Sampierdarena, Genova, Italy |
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| Abstract: | A number of different uniquenessclaims have been made about computer ethics inorder to justify characterizing it as adistinct subdiscipline of applied ethics. Iconsider several different interpretations ofthese claims and argue, first, that none areplausible and, second, that none provideadequate justification for characterizingcomputer ethics as a distinct subdiscipline ofapplied ethics. Even so, I argue that computerethics shares certain important characteristicswith medical ethics that justifies treatingboth as separate subdisciplines of appliedethics. |
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| Keywords: | computer ethics epistemology meta-ethics uniqueness debate |
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