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  • 15 - The foundationalist debate in computer ethics

  • Edited by Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    15 April 2010, pp 251-270

  • Summary

    This chapter gives a brief analysis of a model defended by Floridi and Sanders for examining foundational issues in computer ethics (CE).It proposes an alternative model, which frames CE's foundationalist debate in terms of three principal questions. The first question is regarding CE's legitimacy in the field of applied ethics. The second question is concerned with CE's uniqueness in a philosophically interesting sense. The third question is whether CE requires a new ethical framework. In analysing the questions, the chapter argues that CE qualifies as a legitimate field of applied ethics that warrants philosophical analysis and concludes that there were no convincing reasons to believe that computing technology has either (i) generated any unique or new ethical issues, or (ii) introduced any new ethical objects. It states that there are no compelling reasons to believe that a new normative ethical theory is required for CE.