This book explores a wide range of topics in digital ethics. It features 11 chapters that analyze the opportunities and the ethical challenges posed by digital innovation, delineate new approaches to solve them, and offer concrete guidance to harness the potential for good of digital technologies. The contributors are all members of the Digital Ethics Lab (the DELab), a research environment that draws on a wide range of academic traditions.The chapters highlight the inherently multidisciplinary nature of the subject, which cannot be separated from the epistemological foundations of the technologies themselves or the political implications of the requisite reforms. Coverage illustrates the importance of expert knowledge in the project of designing new reforms and political systems for the digital age. The contributions also show how this task requires a deep self-understanding of who we are as individuals and as a species.The questions raised here have ancient -- perhaps even timeless -- roots. The phenomena they address may be new. But, the contributors examine the fundamental concepts that undergird them:  good and evil, justice and truth. Indeed, every epoch has its great challenges. The role of philosophy must be to redefine the meaning of these concepts in light of the particular challenges it faces. This is true also for the digital age. This book takes an important step towards redefining and re-implementing fundamental ethical concepts to this new era.

Carl Öhman is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research looks at the ethical challenges regarding commercial management of digital human remains. David Watson is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, where his research focuses on the epistemological foundations of machine learning. His interests fall at the intersection of philosophy, computer science, and sociology.  

Introduction: Digital  Ethics:  Goals  and  Approach (Carl Öhman, David Watson, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Luciano Floridi).- Chapter 1. Digital Ethics: Its Nature and Scope (Luciano  Floridi, Corinne  Cath, Mariarosaria  Taddeo).- Chapter 2. Do  We  Need  a  Critical  Evaluation  of  the  Role  of  Mathematics  in  Data  Science? (Patrick Allo).- Chapter 3. Using  Data  From  Git  and  GitHub  in  Ethnographies  of  Software Development (Andrew Turner).- Chapter 4. The  Price  of  Discovery:  A  Model  of  Scientific  Research  Markets (David Watson).- Chapter 5. Projecting  AI-Crime:  A  Review  of  Plausible  Threats (Thomas King).- Chapter 6. The  Challenges  of  Cyber  Deterrence (Mariarosaria Taddeo).- Chapter 7. Internet  Governance  and  Human  Rights:  A  Literature  Review (Corinne Cath).- Chapter 8. Privacy Risks  and  Responses  in  the  Digital  Age (Josh Cowls).- Chapter 9. Digitalised Legal  Information:  Towards  a  New  Publication Model (Václav Janeek).- Chapter 10. From  Bones  to  Bytes:  A  New  Chapter  in  the  History  of  Death (Carl Öhman).- Chapter 11. The  Green  and  the  Blue Naïve  Ideas  to  Improve  Politics  in  a  Mature Information  Society (Luciano FLoridi).