Ethics, Law and the Politics of Information: A Guide to the Philosophy of Luciano Floridi

By Massimo Durante

Book Overview

Introduction
1.1. The Informational Turn
1.2. The Nature of Information
1.3. Philosophy and Ethics of Information

First Part

1. Methodological Issues
1.1. Constructivism
1.2. Levels of Abstraction
1.3. Macroethics

2. The Informational Environment
2.1. The Infosphere
2.2. Laws of the Infosphere
2.3. Principle of Ontological Equality

3. The Centre of the Universe
3.1. The Limits of Anthropocentrism
3.2. The Ontocentric approach
3.3. The Class of Moral Subjects

4. Agency and Autonomy
4.1. Agency: Agents, Patients, and Messages
4.2. Autonomy: Artificial Autonomous Agents
4.3. Evil: Moral Responsibility and Imputability

5. World and Society
5.1. The Reontologisation of Reality
5.2. The Convergence of Offline and Online Realities
5.3. The Consequences of Information

Second Part

1. Ontological Pluralism
1.1. The Nature of Data
1.2. The Value of Information
1.3. An Informational Foundation of Pluralism

2. Informational Privacy
2.1. Human Beings as Informational Objects
2.2. The Ontological Friction
2.3. The Protection of Informational Privacy

3. Information Ethics and Law
3.1. The Limits of Codes of Conduct
3.2. Standard Ethics
3.3. Ethics and Law

4. The Ontic Trust
4.1. The Tradition of Contractualism
4.2. The Foundation of the Information Society
4.3. Trust, Reliance, and Accountability

5. An Informational Approach to Law
5.1. Legal Norms as Information
5.2. Legal Subjects as Informational Objects
5.3. Legal Systems as Informational Systems

Conclusions

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9402411488
• ISBN13: 9789402411485
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"