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Spring 2001
Volume 00, Number 2

Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers

Keynote Address

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Just Consequentialism as a Method for Computer Ethics
James Moor

   Some claim that computing requires completely new ethics and others claim that no special ethics is required. I wish to argue that computing is indeed a special technology that requires new ethical insights but one that also can draw upon traditional ethical notions. Regretably, traditional ethical theories tend to be confused, conflicting, and not very helpful. I will discuss Just consequentialism as a method of doing computer ethics that alleviates these difficulties and offers hope of progress in computer ethics.

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