PHIL 112: Ethics and the Cybersociety

PHIL 112-DL2: Ethics and Cybersociety
(Fall 2025)

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Section Information for Fall 2025

This course provides an introduction to issues in information technology ethics (or
"cyberethics"). It aims to develop your familiarity with those issues and your ability to
think critically about them using various types of ethical reasoning, as found
in Introduction to Ethics - Chapter 2 in the textbook. We will pursue this aim by
considering important ethical theories as well as their implications for some of the issues
raised by the use of computers and other information technologies.

PHIL 253.DL2 is an online asynchronous section.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 1

Examines ethical issues associated with new developments in information technology, including privacy rights, intellectual property rights, and the effect of information technology on society. Offered by Philosophy. Limited to three attempts.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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