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Contemporary Issues in Ethics and Information Technology - Hardcover

Schutlz, Robert A.

 
9781591407799: Contemporary Issues in Ethics and Information Technology
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1591407796 ISBN 13: 9781591407799
Publisher: IGI Global, 2005

Synopsis

Information technology has produced new ethical challenges and concerns in dealing with issues about privacy, security, piracy and professional ethics. ""Contemporary Issues in Ethics and Information Technology"" discusses these issues as well as other important ethical issues such as the outsourcing of high-level jobs and the value of IT itself. The main framework for ethical problems used in ""Contemporary Issues in Ethics and Information Technology"" is derived from the work of the late philosopher John Rawls. Rawls' contribution to ethics was a theory of justice rooted in the social contract theory of the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution. The author's discussion of the value of IT also builds on the views of the philosopher, Martin Heidegger, on modern technology as an independent force in human existence with its own point-of-view. This book provides guidance for IT professionals and users for practical ethical problems.

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About the Author

Robert A. Schultz received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1971. His dissertation in ethics was under the direction of John Rawls. He was a member of the philosophy faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, Cornell University, and the University of Southern California, taught courses and published articles and reviews in the fields of ethics, logic, and aesthetics. In 1980 he assumed the position of Data Processing Manager at A-Mark Precious Metals, a Forbes 500 company, then in Beverly Hills, CA. Since 1989, he has been Professor of Computer Information Systems (recently renamed Information Technology) and Director of Academic Computing at Woodbury University, Burbank, CA.

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Publisher
IGI Global
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1591407796
ISBN 13 
9781591407799
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
230