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Ethics and Information Technology
Overview
Ethics and Information Technology is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the intersection between moral philosophy and the field of information and communications technology. It was established in 1999 by Jeroen van den Hoven (Delft University of Technology), who has been its editor-in-chief ever since. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.6. It is thus ranked #8 out of 57 journals within the category of Ethics. However, according to another metric, the TQCC (top quartile citation count), Ethics and Information Technology is ranked #1 in that category as of early 2024.
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Coinciding with the on-line transition, the second striking change is the extent to which research and education networks are becoming the new medium of scholarly communication. The existing Internet and the pending National Education and Research Network (NREN) represent the new meeting ground where scholars are going for bibliographic information, scholarly dialogue and feedback, the most current publications in…
Library of Congress, Workshop on Electronic Texts
States what Ethics and Information Technology is.
Their feats of scholarship during the nineteenth century were the admiration of the world. This discipline of knowledge applies beyond technology to pure science, and beyond science to general scholarship. It represents the change from amateurs to professionals. There have always been people who devoted their lives to definite regions of thought.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
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In our day this Imperative is mostly introduced to us under a name which, being smoother and less ostentatious, has obtained more currency. It is called "the Moral Law"; and thus entitled, with a passing bow to reason and experience, it slips through unobserved into the house. Once inside, there is no end to its orders and commands; nor can it ever afterwards be brought to account.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
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Part of Social epistemology.
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