Terrell Ward Bynum

Terrell Ward Bynum
Southern Connecticut State University | SCSU · Department of Philosophy

PhD

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Introduction
I continue, with other thinkers, to develop and refine the ethical theory that I have called "Flourishing Ethics" (see my 2006 article with that title). I also continue to develop a model of the universe based upon current ideas being discussed by cosmological scientists.

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This is a detailed analysis of all the important components of Aristotle's theory of human action, including The Voluntary, Sense Perception, Desire, Appetite, Passion, Wish, Deliberation, Choice, the "Practical Syllogism", Autonomy, and Human Action.
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The present paper uses a Flourishing Ethics analysis to address the question of which ethical values and principles should be “instilled” into artificially intelligent agents. This is an urgent question that is still being asked seven decades after philosopher/scientist Norbert Wiener first asked it. An answer is developed by assuming that human fl...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore an emerging ethical theory for the Digital Age – Flourishing Ethics – which will likely be applicable in many different cultures worldwide, addressing not only human concerns but also activities, decisions and consequences of robots, cyborgs, artificially intelligent agents and other new digital techn...
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This paper about computer ethics in China was translated from English by Dr Xiaojian Wu, an international Research Associate of CCSR. (x-jian.wu@unn.ac.uk)
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Using information technology, humans have brought about the Information Revolution, which is changing the world faster and more profoundly than ever before. How is this possible? An answer is suggested by comments of James Moor, regarding Logical Malleability, in his classic paper, What Is Computer Ethics?, 1985. The present essay combines Moor's i...
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The overall theme for the ETHICOMP 2013 is “The possibilities of ethical ICT”. The aim is to explore from a range of perspectives the complex and often interrelated ethical and social issues surrounding pervasive ICT. In order to do this there are two broad themes for the conference: Process - This concerns the activities of ICT professionals when...
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In The Philosophy of Information (2011 book), Luciano Floridi presents an ontological theory of Being qua Being, which he calls "Informational Structural Realism", a theory which applies, he says, to every possible world. He identifies primordial information ("dedomena") as the foundation of any structure in any possible world. The present essay ex...
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In The Philosophy of Information (2011 book), Luciano Floridi presents an ontological theory of Being qua Being, which he calls "Informational Structural Realism", a theory which applies, he says, to every possible world. He identifies primordial information ("dedomena") as the foundation of any structure in any possible world. The present essay ex...
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ETHICOMP 2011 explores the huge range of impacts of advances in social computing on us all. In this way there is an opportunity to raise new issues as well as revisit existing issues but with fresh insight. The conference contributes to the development of a social computing agenda that will help to ensure this applied technology is beneficial to us...
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This brief article describes the circumstances that led to the creation of the journal Metaphilosophy in autumn 1968. A year after I had left graduate school, an unfortunate accident left me flat on my back for several weeks with nothing to do while recuperating from eye surgery. Bored, I decided to do something constructive, so I created a scholar...
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In the past, major scientific and technological revolutions, like the Copernican Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, have had profound effects, not only upon society in general, but also upon Philosophy. Today's Information Revolution is no exception. Already it has had significant impacts upon our understanding of human nature, the nature of...
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As Alvin Toffler wrote, “change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways.” ETHICOMP 2010 has the overall theme of “The backwards, forwards and sideways changes of ICT”. Society has changed dramatically over the last sixty years with the advent of ICT. Some ICT-related changes have been good and have moved society forward, others we...
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Introduction Norbert Wiener's Foundation of Information Ethics Computer Ethics Developments after Wiener and before Maner Walter Maner's Computer Ethics Initiative Deborah Johnson's Influential Textbook and the Start of the “Uniqueness Debate” James Moor's Classic Paper and His Influential Computer Ethics Theory The Professional-Ethics Approach of...
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This opening address looks at the overall theme of the conference. New challenges are highlighted with the advent of technological advances.
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ETHICOMP 2008 has the overall theme of “Living, Working and Learning beyond Technology”. In 1995, Rogerson and Bynum wrote, “The information revolution has become a tidal wave that threatens to engulf and change all that humans value. Governments, organisations and individual citizens therefore would make a grave mistake if they view the computer r...
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To live effectively is to live with adequate information. Thus, communication and control belong to the essence of man's inner life, even as they belong to his life in society. Norbert Wiener SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ETHICS. Major scientific and technological innovations often have profound social and ethical effects. For example, in Europe during...
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ETHICOMP 2007 was held at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan and a new initiative, the ETHICOMP Working Conference 2007, was held at Yunnan University in Kunming, China. In this article we reflect upon our experiences in China, which included the two-day ETHICOMP Working Conference in Kunming, lectures and conversations within the Schools of Computer...
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This essay describes a new ethical theory that has begun to coalesce from the works of several scholars in the international computer ethics community. I call the new theory ‚Flourishing Ethics’ because of its Aristotelian roots, though it also includes ideas suggestive of Taoism and Buddhism. In spite of its roots in ancient ethical theories, Flou...
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This opening address is an analysis and review of the first ten years of the ETHICOMP conference series. Conference themes and papers are analysed thereby identifying trends in technology and the associated social and ethical issues which such trends create.
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This article discusses the foresight of philosopher/mathematician Norbert Wiener who, in the 1940s, founded Information Ethics as a research discipline. Wiener envisioned the coming of an “automatic age” in which information technology would have profound social and ethical impacts upon the world. He predicted, for example, machines that will learn...
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This clear and accessible textbookand its associated website offer a state of the art introduction to the burgeoning field of computer ethics and professional responsibility. Includes discussion of hot topics such as the history of computing; the social context of computing; methods of ethical analysis; professional responsibility and codes of eth...
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Computing brings new opportunities and challenges to traditional philosophical activities changing the way philosophers understand foundational concepts, such as mind, consciousness, experience, reasoning, knowledge, truth, ethics and creativity. This trend in philosophical inquiry has been gaining momentum steadily. This paper builds on the author...
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mills," was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery. . . . Themodern industrial revolution [i.e., the computer revolution] is similarly bound to devalue the human brain. . . . The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values other than buying and selling. To arrive at this society, we need a good deal of pl...
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This article discusses some``historical milestones'' in computer ethics, aswell as two alternative visions of the futureof computer ethics. Topics include theimpressive foundation for computer ethics laiddown by Norbert Wiener in the 1940s and early1950s; the pioneering efforts of Donn Parker,Joseph Weizenbaum and Walter Maner in the1970s; Krystyna...
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New technology always raises compelling ethical questions. As those in medicine increasingly depend on computers and other intelligent machines, the intersection of ethics, computing and the health professions grows much more complex and significant. This book attempts systematically to identify and address the full range of ethical issues that ari...
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In this article the authors present a model of ethical analysis and decision making for the field of computer ethics--a model that actually works for all areas of applied ethics. It is argued that a rich and complex fabric of "policies for conduct"--a "received policy cluster (RPC)--is used by computer ethics decision makers in a dynamic process si...
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This is the introduction to a set of papers from ETHICOMP95. It heralds the launch of a new development in computer ethics- "Global Information Ethics".
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This is an introduction to a set of papers on Computer Ethics from the conference ETHICOMP95. Taken as a whole, the collection of papers provides arguments and concepts to launch a new development in computer ethics: ‘Global Information Ethics’. A rationale for globalization is provided, as well as some early efforts which move in that direction.
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In their 1958 work, B. Inhelder and Piaget offer a single protocol as their only evidence that a fully developed formal operational thinker uses all 16 binary operations of truth-functional logic. The present study attempted to replicate the Inhelder-Piaget results with a random sample of 18 9-yr-old, 19 12-yr-old, and 20 16-yr-old Ss. Not one of t...
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According to Inhelder and Piaget, a fully developed formal operational thinker uses all 16 binary operations of truth-functional logic in solving problems. The only evidence offered, however, was a single protocol from the physical task, Role of Invisible Magnetism. Using this 1 protocol and the Inhelder-Piaget method of analysis, an attempt was ma...

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