Floridi's book challenges standard ethics. In standard ethics, life has priority in moral evaluation. However, in Floridi's Information Ethics, information systems are equal in moral value to living systems. Floridi develops his Ethics as part of a new ontological theory of the Infosphere.

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Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is also the Director of Reasearch and Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute, Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, and Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy of the Department of Computer Science. He is also Adjunct Professor ("Distinguished Scholar in Residence") of the Department of Economics, American University, Washington D. C. Among his recognitions, he is recipient of the APA's Barwise Prize, AISB Fellowship, the IACAP's Covey Award, and the INSEIT's Weizenbaum Award. His other books include The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011), Information: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2010), and The Fourth Revolution (OUP, 2014).

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Luciano Floridi develops the first ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). He establishes the conceptual foundations of Information Ethics by exploring important metatheoretical and introductory issues, and answering theoretical questions of great philosophical interest.

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• PREFACE

• 1: ETHICS AFTER THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION

• 2: WHAT IS INFORMATION ETHICS?

• 3: THE METHOD OF ABSTRACTION

• 4: INFORMATION ETHICS AS E-NVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

• 5: INFORMATION ETHICS AND THE FOUNDATIONALIST DEBATE

• 6: THE INTRINSIC VALUE OF THE INFOSPHERE

• 7: THE MORALITY OF ARTIFICIAL AGENTS

• 8: THE CONSTRUCTIONIST VALUES OF HOMO POIETICUS

• 9: ARTIFICIAL EVIL

• 10: THE TRAGEDY OF THE GOOD WILL

• 11: THE INFORMATIONAL NATURE OF SELVES

• 12: THE ONTOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF INFORMATIONAL PRIVACY

• 13: DISTRIBUTED MORALITY

• 14: INFORMATION BUSINESS ETHICS

• 15: GLOBAL INFORMATION ETHICS

• 16: A DEFENCE OF INFORMATION ETHICS

• EPILOGUE

• REFERENCES

• INDEX