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Journals ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society Volume 27 Issue 3

Ethics and the Computer World: A New Challenge for Philosophers m L John Ladd Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA j ladd @connriver. net m The philosopher as gadfly I shall assume that our job as moral philosophers is to follow the time-honored tradition set by Socrates and to serve as gadflies. In ethics, the pursuit of Socratic questioning has been called critical ethics. Its task is to subject commonly accepted conventions, popular superstitions, social prejudices and prevailing mythologies to critical ethical scrutiny. Its method consists of persistent and uncompromising questioning of concepts, premises, arguments and presuppositions and applying logical and conceptual analysis to commonly accepted and seldom challenged opinions. For that reason, Collingwood aptly described philosophy as the critique of presuppositions. In order to carry out this challenging task philosophers, good philosophers, must of necessity be outsiders. Spinoza, one of the Netherland's most eminent sons is a prototype. I am glad to see some veteran outsiders on the program. Even Kant, whom most people do not recognize to be the radical thinker that he was, remarked in a handwritten note in the Bemerhungen that a philosopher is useless as far as ordinary morality is concerned but,

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Ethics and the computer world: a new challenge for philosophers

Ladd, John
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society , Volume 27 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1997

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