CEPE'97 Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry his conference was held the cooperation a joint venture T between the University withEast London andofACM SIGCAS as Universiteit in .1. of the host, Erasmus Rotterdam (The Netherlands) on 11-13 June 1997. The conference was jointly chaired by Jeroen van den Hoven (Erasmus) and David Preston (East London). In this introduction we have attempted to summarise the papers that were available in full prior to the conference. We apologise for being unable to include a summary of those papers that arrived at or after the conference; timing made this impossible. We will however try to include this information in the December issue of Computersand Society. Whilst the papers presented did have privacy as a major theme a wide range of type and approach in the philosophical enquiry was evident. The two chairs are to publish the privacy papers in book form for Kluwer later this year and several of the others will constitute a special inaugural edition of a new journal. Frans Birrer (Univ. of Leiden) discussed three key problems in applying ethical and moral concepts and theories to IT contexts. He first identified that stretching the notion of computer ethics to encompass
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