AUTHOR J. Barrie Thompson ABSTRACT The call for papers for ETHICOMP 2007 highlights the need to bridge the global nature of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the local nature of human beings. There is no doubt that, with regard to ICT, we now exist in a global market place where, for example, software can […]
AUTHOR Bernd Carsten Stahl ABSTRACT There is general agreement that privacy is an important value that is worth protecting. The agreement does not extend, however, to the definition of privacy, its limits or the way it should best be protected. Much debate in the field of computer and information ethics deals with the conceptual foundation […]
AUTHOR Paul Sollie ABSTRACT Going on the insight of various scientific disciplines, such as economics and environmental studies, I will argue that uncertainty is a concept essential and central to many contemporary debates, like that of technology development in general and radio-frequency identification technology (hereafter RFID) in particular. However, within the field of moral philosophy […]
AUTHOR Jacek Sojka ABSTRACT Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is now an obvious way of doing business, shopping, teaching and simply staying in touch. We seem to be members of a new community of internet users. As one of the authors writing about cyberspace said (A.R. Stone in 1991): virtual communities can be defined as “incontrovertibly social […]
AUTHOR Kazuo SAKAI, Ken KURIYAMA and Toshiyuki MIYAHARA ABSTRACT The Japanese universities developed by riding the demographic big wave which grew drastically from thirty million to one hundred and twenty million in the last century. The universities will experience a sharp downturn in population to one-half of the present population 2006 to 90 years after. […]
AUTHOR Kazuyuki Shimizu ABSTRACT This study analysed the meaning and function of “fiduciary duty” and “deontic logic (Treuepflicht)” in the corporate governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) systems in Germany, using Kantian’s epistemology[1]. A difference was found between logical empiricism = duty and apriori = deontology (Pflicht), especially with regard to the theory of […]