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Exam 1 Review Topics
The exam will cover chapters 1 - 5 of the Johnson's textbook,"Computer Ethics, Fourth edition,"
and the assigned readings from chapters 1 - 4 of "Readings in CyberEthics." It will cover all
class sessions through Monday, 10/21/13. The exam will be open book, meaning you will be
able to refer to either of the two textbooks during the exam. It will not be open note.
To help you study, the following is a list of topics that may or may not appear on the exam:
- Why Computer Ethics?.
- What is meant by Ethics?
- The Standard Account (James Moore) for studying Computer Ethics
- Description of the standard account
- Problems with the standard account
- Sociotechnical Systems (STS) Perspective
- Three rules of STS Perspective
- STS as a framework for studying Computer Ethics
- The Dialectic Method
- Empirical vs. Normative claims
- Process of the Dialectic Method
- Ethical Relativism
- Empirical Evidence for ethical relativism
- Problems with Ethical Relativism
- Ethical Theories
- Utilitarianism
- Intrinsic vs. Instrumental value
- Contrast with Egoism
- Rules vs. Acts
- Problems with Utilitarianism
- Deontological Theories
- Reasoning for deontological theories
- The categorical imperative
- Rights and Duties
- Positive and Negative rights
- Legal rights vs. Natural (human) rights
- Social Contract Theory
- John Rawls' theory of social justice
- Virtue Ethics
- Analogical Reasoning
- Technology in IT societies
- Technology as instrumentation of human action
- Distinctive features of IT societies
- Many to Many scope
- Distinctive identity conditions
- Reproducibility
- Examples: E.g. Virtual Reality, Social Networking
- Plagiarism and IT
- Democracy in an IT society
- Privacy
- New issues with IT
- Information flow
- Data mining and Merging
- New kinds of information
- Distribution of Information
- Arguments for and against worrying about privacy
- Privacy as:
- An individual good
- A value
- A social good
- Contextual integrity of information
- Privacy and democracy
- Fair information practices
- Responsibilities of Computer Professionals
- Intellectual Property
- Issues for protecting software intellectual property
- Copyright
- Description
- Problems with respect to software
- Difficulties proving copyright infringement
- Digital rights Management (DRM)
- Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)
- Trade Secrecy
- Patent Protection
- Description
- Problems with applying patents to software
- Free Software
- Open Source Software
- Theories of Philosophical Basis for Property
- Utilitarian
- Natural Rights (e.g. John Locke's labor theory)
- Problems with Natural right theory for software ownership
- Proprietary Software vs. Free and Open Source (FOSS) software
- Morality of copying software
- Civil disobedience--When is it morally acceptable to break the law?
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Constance Royden--croyden@mathcs.holycross.edu
Computer Science 328--Ethical Issues in Computer Science
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