Yıl: 2023 Cilt: 0 Sayı: 48 Sayfa Aralığı: 141 - 159 Metin Dili: İngilizce İndeks Tarihi: 15-12-2023

An Ethical Theory in The Field of Information Philosophy: Flourishing Ethics

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Recent significant developments have occurred in the field of computational technologies with the information revolution. These developments have changed and transformed our lives in many aspects; especially our cultural, economic, and governance activities through individual and social dimensions. While this change and transformation brought about positive developments, it also brought with it some ethical problems. One of the areas affected by the information revolution is philosophy. The philosophy of information is a new philosophical approach that deals with the ontological, epistemological, and axiological aspects of the subjects, concepts, and phenomena developed under the influence of the information revolution. Information ethics, on the other hand, is a field of investigation that deals with the ethical problems created by the world of information and produces solutions within this philosophical field. The main purpose of this article is to investigate a new theory of information ethics that both uses traditional ethical approaches and proposes a change of perspective in terms of methodology in addressing the ethical problems of the information age. This theory is Prof. Terrell Ward Bynum’s Flourishing Ethics Theory, which has Aristotelian foundations in the philosophy of information, one of the contemporary philosophical fields. The article contains both the expected results and the results that emerged during the research. The expected result that emerged during the investigation is to examine this theory with its main discussions and to include its subjects and concepts. Another conclusion reached during the research is our determination that the philosophy-science tradition has shaped our age by the philosophy-technology movement with the influence of the internet, artificial intelligence and computing technologies, which are the tools of the information revolution.
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BİLİŞİM FELSEFESİ ALANINDA BİR ETİK TEORİ: GELİŞİM ETİĞİ

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Recent significant developments have occurred in the field of computational technologies with the information revolution. These developments have changed and transformed our lives in many aspects; especially our cultural, economic, and governance activities through individual and social dimensions. While this change and transformation brought about positive developments, it also brought with it some ethical problems. One of the areas affected by the information revolution is philosophy. The philosophy of information is a new philosophical approach that deals with the ontological, epistemological, and axiological aspects of the subje- cts, concepts, and phenomena developed under the influence of the information revolution. Information ethics, on the other hand, is a field of investigation that deals with the ethical problems created by the world of information and produces solutions within this philosophical field. The main purpose of this article is to investigate a new theory of information ethics that both uses traditional ethical approaches and proposes a change of perspective in terms of methodology in addressing the ethical problems of the information age. This theory is Prof. Terrell Ward Bynum’s Flourishing Ethics Theory, which has Aristotelian foundations in the philosophy of information, one of the contemporary philosophical fields. The article contains both the expected results and the results that emerged during the research. The expected result that emerged during the investigation is to examine this theory with its main discussions and to include its subjects and concepts. Another conclusion reached during the research is our determination that the philosophy-science tradition has shaped our age by the philosophy-technology movement with the influence of the internet, artificial intelligence and computing technologies, which are the tools of the information revolution.
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