Strategic Decision Making
Ethical Aspects of Information Technology
Ethical Aspects of Information Technology
Mapping the foundationalist debate in computer ethics
Ethics and Information Technology
Cyberstalking, personal privacy, and moralresponsibility
Ethics and Information Technology
Social epistemology and the digital divide
CRPIT '03 Selected papers from conference on Computers and philosophy - Volume 37
Toward an epistemology of Wikipedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Epistemic Values and Information Management
The Information Society - The Philosophy of Information, its Nature, and Future Developments
Policy-based Awareness Management (PAM): Case study of a wireless communication system at a hospital
Journal of Systems and Software
Maintaining awareness using policies; Enabling agents to identify relevance of information
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
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Three of the major issues in information ethics – intellectual property, speech regulation, and privacy – concern the morality of restricting people’s access to certain information. Consequently, policies in these areas have a significant impact on the amount and types of knowledge that people acquire. As a result, epistemic considerations are critical to the ethics of information policy decisions (cf. Mill, 1978 [1859]). The fact that information ethics is a part of the philosophy of information highlights this important connection with epistemology. In this paper, I illustrate how a value-theoretic approach to epistemology can help to clarify these major issues in information ethics. However, I also identify several open questions about epistemic values that need to be answered before we will be able to evaluate the epistemic consequences of many information policies.