The 2018 Yearbook Of The Digital Ethics Lab

Description

This book explores a wide range of topics in digital ethics. It features 11 chapters that analyze the opportunities and the ethical challenges posed by digital innovation, delineate new approaches to solve them, and offer concrete guidance to harness the potential for good of digital technologies. The contributors are all members of the Digital Ethics Lab (the DELab), a research environment that draws on a wide range of academic traditions. The chapters highlight the inherently multidisciplinary nature of the subject, which cannot be separated from the epistemological foundations of the technologies themselves or the political implications of the requisite reforms. Coverage illustrates the importance of expert knowledge in the project of designing new reforms and political systems for the digital age. The contributions also show how this task requires a deep self-understanding of who we are as individuals and as a species. The questions raised here have ancient -- perhaps even timeless -- roots. The phenomena they address may be new. But, the contributors examine the fundamental concepts that undergird them: good and evil, justice and truth. Indeed, every epoch has its great challenges. The role of philosophy must be to redefine the meaning of these concepts in light of the particular challenges it faces. This is true also for the digital age. This book takes an important step towards redefining and re-implementing fundamental ethical concepts to this new era. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Digital Ethics: Goals and Approach (Carl Öhman, David Watson)....Pages 1-7 Digital Ethics: Its Nature and Scope (Luciano Floridi, Corinne Cath, Mariarosaria Taddeo)....Pages 9-17 Do We Need a Critical Evaluation of the Role of Mathematics in Data Science? (Patrick Allo)....Pages 19-34 Using Data from Git and GitHub in Ethnographies of Software Development (Andrew Turner)....Pages 35-49 The Price of Discovery: A Model of Scientific Research Markets (David Watson)....Pages 51-63 Projecting AI-Crime: A Review of Plausible Threats (Thomas King)....Pages 65-84 The Challenges of Cyber Deterrence (Mariarosaria Taddeo)....Pages 85-103 Internet Governance and Human Rights: A Literature Review (Corinne Cath)....Pages 105-132 Privacy Risks and Responses in the Digital Age (Josh Cowls)....Pages 133-147 Digitalised Legal Information: Towards a New Publication Model (Václav Janeček)....Pages 149-165 From Bones to Bytes: A New Chapter in the History of Death (Carl Öhman)....Pages 167-182 The Green and the Blue: Naïve Ideas to Improve Politics in a Mature Information Society (Luciano Floridi)....Pages 183-221 Back Matter ....Pages 223-224