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- Title
Distributed Morality in an Information Society.
- Authors
Floridi, Luciano
- Abstract
The phenomenon of distributed knowledge is well-known in epistemic logic. In this paper, a similar phenomenon in ethics, somewhat neglected so far, is investigated, namely distributed morality. The article explains the nature of distributed morality, as a feature of moral agency, and explores the implications of its occurrence in advanced information societies. In the course of the analysis, the concept of infraethics is introduced, in order to refer to the ensemble of moral enablers, which, although morally neutral per se, can significantly facilitate or hinder both positive and negative moral behaviours.
- Subjects
ETHICS; INFORMATION society; EPISTEMICS; INFORMATION &; communication technologies; MULTIAGENT systems; BEHAVIORAL research
- Publication
Science & Engineering Ethics, 2013, Vol 19, Issue 3, p727
- ISSN
1353-3452
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11948-012-9413-4