On Floridi’s metaphysical foundation of information ecology

Capurro, Rafael

doi:10.1007/s10676-008-9162-x

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“…Cornelius objects to Floridi's deriving his idea of information from data, and that to something objective in the world, preferring to regard information for LIS as subjective and socially constructed, with no explicit link to data. Similar sentiments have been expressed by Capurro (2008) and others. As will be made clear later, this is not an objection which we find compelling.…”

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“…Such criticisms unfortunately persist, as in the suggestion that following a Floridean ethic would lead us to allow HIV to persist and cause the death of people, and that we would conclude that, since all political ideas have some informational value, the more Nazis there are the better (Fuchs 2016), as well as more nuanced criticisms such as those of Capurro (2008). Floridi has, we believe, convincingly answered such criticisms in various places (see.…”

Section: Information Ethics and Information Societymentioning

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Curating the infosphere

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Robinson

2018

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Section: Information Ethics and Information Societymentioning

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Curating the infosphere

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Robinson

2018

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“…Rafael Capurro suggested -that a weakening of Floridi's demiurgic information ecology is needed in order not to forget the limitations of human actors and/or of their surrogates, digital agents. I plea for a rational theoretical and practical view of such agents beyond utopian reasoning with regard to their potential moral status‖ [28].…”

Section: The Radical Approach: Computer Ethics As a Unique Disciplinementioning

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Computer Ethics: Job of Computer Scientist

Iqbal

Beigh²

2017

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This paper reiterates the fact that computer ethics is a job of computer scientist and not philosophers. This paper is divided into three sections. First section provides with a brief explanation and discussion on the weaknesses and shortcomings of classical ethical theories like Divine command theories, Ethical Egoism, Kantianism, Utilitarianism, Social Contract Theory and Virtue Ethics, which makes them unfit for the application of computer ethics. Second section discusses the ambiguity in theories proposed for foundation of computer ethics. Third section deals with professional ethics and discusses that Computer ethics is a domain of computer scientist. This article gives a clear picture of shortcoming of traditional ethical theories and need of new theory to deal with computer ethics. This article points out flaws in theories trying to give foundation for computer ethics. We suggest professional ethics as practical and preventive measure for computer ethics that caters to its requirements. We also explores the role of computer scientist for the application of computer ethics as a profession.

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“…The implications of the new ICTs for ethics are being addressed in publications and meetings under the loose designation of Ethics and Information Technology (Capurro 2008), and by initiatives such as the International Center for Information Ethics of Rafael Capurro and his colleagues and its on-line Journal, and institutions such as the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics of which Luciano Floridi is the Chairholder. There is in addition a recent empirical turn in ethics that is of particular interest for comparison with a series of philosophical "turns"-computational, ontological and, above all, informational-that have followed the linguistic turn of the early twentieth century.…”

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A Logic of Ethical Information

Brenner

2010

Know Techn Pol

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The work of Luciano Floridi lies at the interface of philosophy, information science and technology, and ethics, an intersection whose existence and significance he was one of the first to establish. His closely related concepts of a philosophy of information (PI), informational structural realism, information logic (IL), and information ethics (IE) provide a new ontological perspective from which moral concerns can be addressed, especially but not limited to those arising in connection with the new information and communication technologies. In this paper, I relate Floridi's approach to another novel perspective, namely, that of an extension of logic to complex real processes, including those of information production and transfer. This non-propositional, non-truth-functional logic (logic in reality (LIR)) is grounded in the fundamental dualism (dynamic opposition) inherent in energy and accordingly present at all levels of reality. The LIR description of the dynamics of processes and their evolution is relevant to what Floridi refers to as the possible nonlinguistic aspects of information. It suggests answers to some of Floridi's "outstanding problems" in PI related to the ontological status of information and how it is used in cognition. Floridi's IL retains the formal structure of the doxastic and epistemic logics from which he correctly distinguishes it and is the basis for his conceptual PI. However, LIR fulfills Floridi's implied requirement that logic be regarded as a natural phenomenon dealing with other natural phenomena, recovering its original philosophical function. LIR provides a logical foundation for discussion of ethical questions based on kinds of information that complements IL. Both are reconsiderations of logic that, as Marijuan suggests, may be necessary for the advancement of information technology in an ethical direction (cf. also Brenner). IE focuses on entities as constituted by information in an overall strategy that generalizes the concept of moral agents. LIR and its related ontology naturalize critical aspects of Floridi's theses, especially, the moral value of being as such and a non-separable joint responsibility of individuals and groups. I compare IE to other current approaches to ethics and information technology (e.g., phenomenological and social constructivist). Ethical information is defined "ecologically" in process terms as reality in a physical space (cf. Floridi), with an intentional "valence," positive and negative, in the morally valued interaction between producer and receiver. LIR is neither topic-neutral nor context independent and can support an ethics involving apparently contradictory perspectives (e.g., internalist and externalist). Ethics involves practical reasoning, and unlike standard logics, LIR supports Magnani's approach to abductive reasoning in rational moral decision making. The basis of moral responsibility and the consequent behavior of individuals involved in information and communications technologies is the same logical-metaphysical principle of dy...

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On Floridi’s metaphysical foundation of information ecology

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