Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry he CEPE98 Conference, which was held with the cooperation of ACM SIGCAS, took place at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) on December 14-15, 1998. The conference was chaired by Lucas Introna and was attended by more than 50 persons. Attending were scholars and instructors from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, computer science, and behavioral science, as well as students, industry consultants, and others. Thirty-one papers were submitted, of which nineteen were accepted for presentation. Each paper was blind reviewed by at least two members of the CEPE98 Program Committee. In addition to the papers presented, three invited keynote addresses were also delivered during the conference: Anthony Giddens (Director of the London School of Economics), in the conference's first keynote, examined ethical issues of late modernity and their implications for information technology. Anthony elaborated on what he saw as the most important, information-technology facilitated, issues of late modernity. He emphasized aspects such as globalization, the pressure on traditional institutions (for example, the nation state, government, the family, and personal identity), and the crisis of legitimacy of the scientific enterprise. Bernard Gert and James Moor, both from Dartmouth College (USA), considered
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