INFO 6940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuclear Power, John Dewey, Descriptive Ethics
12 Aug 2016
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What is ethics? norms and values that guide individual and collective moral reflection and action. Descriptive ethics how do we act (what values do people actually hold and act on?) Applied ethics how do/should we act around domain, question, or situation x . Consequentialism the goodness of an act inheres on its consequences. Utilitarianism the goodness of an act depends on the greatest good for the greatest number. Deontological the rightness inheres in the act, not the outcome. Heterogeneous engineers people who are adept at both sides, using design and order. Case: privacy, online memory, and the right to be forgotten. Outcome: cornell requested google to remove url, blocked url for the article being harvested, removed her name from the ocr of the pdf. The collection of laws, policies, and institutions that shape, limit, and enable emerging information technology and the sociocultural practices around them. Policy reactive, created after technology goes wrong/right. When laws were created, the fields were non-convergent.
