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| − | + | The uniqueness debate considers whether information and computer ethics constitutes an new branch of applied ethics or simply worsens already existing ethical problems. Discussions over the uniqueness of ethical problems encountered in the realm of information technology began when Walter Maner Ph.D, proposed in his class at Bowling Green State University that computer ethics generates new and unique problems.<ref name="Cambridge" /> | |
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| + | “The powers of modern technology create for us a new moral condition by creating novel powers to act; novel powers to act, in turn, disclose new objects of ethical consideration; and, consequently, novel powers to act require ‘novel ethical rules and perhaps even a new ethics.’” [Tavani/Jonas 2002, p. 45] | ||
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| + | <ref name="Cambridge">The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, Cambridge University Press 2010</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 03:55, 12 October 2012
The uniqueness debate considers whether information and computer ethics constitutes an new branch of applied ethics or simply worsens already existing ethical problems. Discussions over the uniqueness of ethical problems encountered in the realm of information technology began when Walter Maner Ph.D, proposed in his class at Bowling Green State University that computer ethics generates new and unique problems.[1]
“The powers of modern technology create for us a new moral condition by creating novel powers to act; novel powers to act, in turn, disclose new objects of ethical consideration; and, consequently, novel powers to act require ‘novel ethical rules and perhaps even a new ethics.’” [Tavani/Jonas 2002, p. 45]
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