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Author:   Massimo Durante
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Volume:   18
Weight:   0.541kg
ISBN:  

9789402411485

ISBN 10:   9402411488
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction 1.1. The Informational Turn 1.2. The Nature of Information 1.3. Philosophy and Ethics of Information First Part 1. Methodological Issues 1.1. Constructivism 1.2. Levels of Abstraction 1.3. Macroethics 2. The Informational Environment 2.1. The Infosphere 2.2. Laws of the Infosphere 2.3. Principle of Ontological Equality 3. The Centre of the Universe 3.1. The Limits of Anthropocentrism 3.2. The Ontocentric approach 3.3. The Class of Moral Subjects  4. Agency and Autonomy 4.1. Agency: Agents, Patients, and Messages 4.2. Autonomy: Artificial Autonomous Agents 4.3. Evil: Moral Responsibility and Imputability 5. World and Society 5.1. The Reontologisation of Reality 5.2. The Convergence of Offline and Online Realities 5.3. The Consequences of Information Second Part 1. Ontological Pluralism 1.1. The Nature of Data 1.2. The Value of Information 1.3. An Informational Foundation of Pluralism 2. Informational Privacy 2.1. Human Beings as Informational Objects 2.2. The Ontological Friction 2.3. The Protection of Informational Privacy 3. Information Ethics and Law 3.1. The Limits of Codes of Conduct 3.2. Standard Ethics 3.3. Ethics and Law 4. The Ontic Trust 4.1. The Tradition of Contractualism 4.2. The Foundation of the Information Society 4.3. Trust, Reliance, and Accountability 5. An Informational Approach to Law   5.1. Legal Norms as Information 5.2. Legal Subjects as Informational Objects 5.3. Legal Systems as Informational Systems Conclusions

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Massimo Durante is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics at the University of Turin. He holds a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Law from the University of Turin and a Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy from the Paris IV Sorbonne University. Author of several books, he has published numerous papers in Italian, English and French. He is Faculty Fellow of the Nexa Center for Internet and Society at the Polytechnic University of Turin, where he also serves on the Board of the Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D.) Degree in “Law, Science, and Technology”. His main interests are law and technology, information ethics, internet governance and information technology law, privacy and data protection law, and artificial intelligence and law.

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