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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255209503321

Autore

Durante Massimo

Titolo

Ethics, Law and the Politics of Information : A Guide to the Philosophy of Luciano Floridi / / by Massimo Durante

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

94-024-1150-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages)

Collana

The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, , 1875-0036 ; ; 18

Disciplina

003.54

Soggetti

Ethics

Computers and civilization

Anthropology

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Computers and Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part 1: 1. Methodological Issues -- 2. The Informational Environment -- 3. The Centre of the Universe -- 4. Agency and Autonomy -- 5. World and Society -- Part 2: 1. Ontological Pluralism -- 2. Informational Privacy -- 3. Information Ethics and Law -- 4. The Ontic Trust -- 5. An Informational Approach to Law -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a detailed discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the change driven by ICTs. Such a change is often much more profound than an emphasis on information technology and society can capture, for not only does it bring about ethical and policy vacuums that call for a new understanding of ethics, politics and law, but it also “re-ontologizes reality”, as propounded by Luciano Floridi’s philosophy and ethics of information. The informational turn is transforming our understanding of reality by challenging the conventional ways we have of thinking about our world and our identities in terms of stable and enduring structures and beliefs. The information age we inhabit brings to completion our self-understanding as informational systems that produce, process, and exchange information with other informational systems, in an



environment that is itself made up of information. The present volume provides us with a better understanding of the normative nature and role of information, helping us to grasp the sense and extent to which informational resources serve as “constraining affordances” guiding our behaviours. It does so by delineating the background against which we build our beliefs about reality, make decisions, and behave, through our interactions with a multi-agent system that is increasingly dependent on ICTs. The book will be of interest to a vast audience, ranging from information technologists, ethicists, policy makers, social and legal scholars, and all those willing to embrace the following three tenets: we construct our world and ourselves informationally; by constructing our world and ourselves we thereby become aware of our limits; it is precisely these limits that make us become human beings.