Reading questions for:
Birrer, Applying Ethical and Moral Concepts and Theories to IT: Some Key Problems and Challenges.
CS-80--Senior Seminar
Fall '01

Jim Rice

September 14, 2001

1. According to Birrer, what is "Computer Ethics?" How do they differ from other ethics systems?

2. What is meant by rule-based, virtue-based, and discourse ethics? How are they different from eachother, and how do they fit into an ethical system? Are they compatible with each other? How does Birrer feel this property of compatibility be used to create an ethics system? Do you agree?

3. What does Birrer mean by technological determinism?

4. What is the role of an expert in creating and/or dispelling "untransparency" in an ethics system?

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Reading questions for:
Birrer, Applying Ethical and Moral Concepts and Theories to IT: Some Key Problems and Challenges.
CS-80--Senior Seminar
Fall '01

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