Module resources home page

There’s nothing there yet, but the following site will expand as the module progresses this session: http://www.co.umist.ac.uk/~mes/ct218. If relevant resources of any kind come to your notice, e.g. in newspapers, please send me mail with the details. Your mail should have ct218 in the subject field.

Books

All in the Joule Library.

Bott, F., Coleman, A., Eaton, J. and Rowland, D. (2001) Professional Issues in Software Engineering, 3^rd edition, London: Taylor and Francis.

Epstein, R.G. (1997) The Case of the Killer Robot. New York: Wiley.

Forrester, T. and Morrison, P. (1994) Computer Ethics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gaarder, J. (1995) Sophie’s World. London: Phoenix/Orion Books.

Hare, R. M. (1964) The language of morals. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964. ISBN 0198810776

Johnson, D.G. (1994) Computer Ethics. 2^nd edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Langford, D. (1999) Business Computer Ethics. Harlow: Addison-Wesley.

Rowe, Christopher, 1942-. - People and chips : the human implications of information technology. - 2nd ed. - Oxford : Blackwell Scientific, 1990. ISBN 0632026952

Spinello, R.A. (1997) Case Studies in Information and Computer Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Stork, D.G. and Clarke, A.C. editors. (1997) Hal's legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality Cambridge, MA.; London : MIT. ISBN 0262692112

Williams, B. (1985) Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. London: Fontana/Collins.

Yazdani, M. and Narayanan, A. editors (1984) Artificial intelligence : human effects - Chichester : Ellis Horwood,. - (Ellis Horwood series in artificial intelligence). ISBN 0853125775

Murrell, Hywel. (1976) Men and machines. - London : Methuen (Essential Psychology ; E4). ISBN 0416823009

Additional titles in the Joule and John Rylands libraries

The following titles are also listed under classification 174.90904 but have not been consulted:

Roy Dejoie, George Fowle (1991) editors: Ethical issues in information systems. Boston, MA: Boyd & Fraser. ISBN 0878355626

Weckert, John and Adeney, D. (1997) Computer and information ethics. Westport, CT.; London: Greenwood Press (Contributions to the study of computer science; no.4). ISBN 0313293627

Edgar, S. L. (1997) Morality and machine: perspectives on computer ethics. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. (Jones and Bartlett series in philosophy). ISBN 076370184x

Midgley, M. (1994) The ethical primate: humans, freedom and morality. London : Routledge, ISBN 0415095301

Williams, Bernard (1993)-. - Morality: an introduction to ethics. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press (Canto). ISBN 0521457297

Singer, Peter, (1979) Practical ethics. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521229200

There are 490 works listed in the John Rylands catalogue under classification 170, among which the following two are general introductions to the field of ethics:

Spaemann, R. (1989) Basic moral concepts. - London: Routledge,. – 0415041600

Warnock, M. (1998) - An intelligent person's guide to ethics. - London: Duckworth. ISBN 0715628410

Web resources

IEEE and ACM (1999) Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. and the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

http://computer.org/computer/code-of-ethics.pdf

A web course presented at Virginia Tech: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/

General compendia of resources: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/committee/ethics/ec-resources.htm

http://cyberethics.cbi.msstate.edu/

http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Ethics/Welcome.html

Research Ethics Resources on the World Wide Web http://www.indiana.edu/~poynter/tre-onln.html

A smaller list of links: http://www.ibritt.com/reference/virtual_professor.htm#ethics

A directory of computer crime links on a security portal site: http://www.securitynewsportal.com/infosyssec/compcrim1.htm

An extensive resource page on ethics for scientists in general, with a section on computing in particular:

http://www.towson.edu/~sweeting/ethics/ethicbib.htm

Online Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy. Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon University

http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/80130/Syllabus.html

A simple statement of general universal principles of ethics: http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/papers/invited/colero.html

A collection of 100 sample student papers on ethical topics (possibly useful in preparing to write exam answers on topics in this module) – but you need your Visa card handy! http://www.ethicspapers.com/

The Risks Digest: Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/

US National Institute for Engineering Ethics: http://www.niee.org/other.htm

Thirty-six Discussion Cases based on cases considered by the Board of Ethical Review (BER) of the (US) National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). http://onlineethics.org/cases/engcases.html

A related site: http://lowery.tamu.edu/ethics/

Another engineering ethics page: http://www.murdough.ttu.edu/EthicsModule/EthicsModule.htm

NET-ETHIQUETTE Mini Case Studies of Dysfunctional Human Behaviour on the Net: http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/Netethiquettecases.html

Abstracts of a set of conference papers from 1998: http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ethicomp/eth98-papers.html

Details of a forthcoming conference on the same topic: http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ccsrconf/ethicomp2001/index.html

A page on ethics for managers, with resources: http://www.mapnp.org/library/ethics/ethxgde.htm

Harold Abelson’s Privacy course page: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/

A page on music and IPR on the net: http://www.the-open-space.org/osonline/polansky/singing.html