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| + | Disclosive ethics refers to an exploratory subfield of information ethics founded by Philip Brey in 2000. The methodology of disclosive ethics utilizes an approach towards ethical issues pertaining to practices in information driven atmospheres with analysis of perceived normative environments in technology. One of the key facets to disclosive thinking involves the ability to approach perceived normative environments with a level of scepticism in order to expose the unperceived biases of the designers of a specific informational system. Designer bias that may have been knowingly or unknowingly embedded into the creation process of that information system, have the ability to shape the way a user interacts with a system which has the capacity of effecting societal cultural belief systems. This social implication is one of the fundamental reasons behind Brey proposal to create a subfield of computer ethics exclusively focusing on broadening the scope of moral analysis within computer practices to the issues that have not been exposed. Disclosive ethics is a deviation from the current standard model of applied ethics, which does not account for morally opaque ethical issues in perceived normative information systems and acts as a complementary approach in developing the limitations of the standard model of applied ethics. | ||
Revision as of 13:55, 15 March 2019
Disclosive ethics refers to an exploratory subfield of information ethics founded by Philip Brey in 2000. The methodology of disclosive ethics utilizes an approach towards ethical issues pertaining to practices in information driven atmospheres with analysis of perceived normative environments in technology. One of the key facets to disclosive thinking involves the ability to approach perceived normative environments with a level of scepticism in order to expose the unperceived biases of the designers of a specific informational system. Designer bias that may have been knowingly or unknowingly embedded into the creation process of that information system, have the ability to shape the way a user interacts with a system which has the capacity of effecting societal cultural belief systems. This social implication is one of the fundamental reasons behind Brey proposal to create a subfield of computer ethics exclusively focusing on broadening the scope of moral analysis within computer practices to the issues that have not been exposed. Disclosive ethics is a deviation from the current standard model of applied ethics, which does not account for morally opaque ethical issues in perceived normative information systems and acts as a complementary approach in developing the limitations of the standard model of applied ethics.
