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Encyclopedias

Last Update: December 16, 2010

Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics by Carl Mitcham (Ed.) 4 vols.(Thomson Gale 2005) with contributions from (selection):
  • Prosthetics, Virtual Reality by Philip Brey
  • Semiotics: Nature and Machine by Søren Brier
  • Discourse Ethics by Charles Ess
  • Information by Luciano Floridi
  • Natural Law by Kenneth Einar Himma
  • Levinas, Emmanuel by Lucas Introna
  • Phenomenology by Lucas Introna
  • Computer Ethics, Ethics and Technology, A Program for Future Research by Deborah G. Johnson
  • Hacker Ethics by Deborah G. Johnson
  • Responsibility. Anglo-American Perspectives by Deborah G. Johnson
  • Social Construction of Technology by Deborah G. Johnson
  • Daoist Perspectives by Liu Xiaogan
  • Biodiversity Commercialization, Bioethics, Technoethics by Carl Mitcham
  • Towards an Ethics of Science and Technology as Knowledge by Carl Mitcham
  • Artificiality by Massimo Negrotti
  • Values in Technical Design by Helen Nissenbaum
  • Information Ethics by Martha M. Smith
    • Herman T. Tavani: Transaction Generated Information and Data Mining
    • Jeroen van den Hoven: Privacy
    • Marsha Woodbury: Security

The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science edited by Allen Kent (University of Pittsburgh) has published comprehensive articles in this field, namely:
  • Ethical Aspects of Library and Information Science by Richard R. Rubin (Kent State University) and Thomas J. Froehlich (Kent State University) (1996, Vol. 58, Suppl. 21, pp. 33-52)
  • Professional Ethics by Lee Finks and Elisabeth Soekefeld (1993, Vol. 52, Suppl. 15, pp. 301-32)
There are several articles on special themes like:
  • Censorship by Edward Cline (1998 Vol. 62, Suppl. 25, pp. 65-83)
  • Teaching Ethical Computing by Tom Jewett (1998 Vol. 63, Suppl. 26, pp. 297-311)
  • The Information Society: Conceptions and Critique by Frank Webster (1996 Vol. 58, Suppl. 21, pp. 74-112)
  • Ethical Issues in Information Systems by Vladimir Zwass (1996 Vol. 57, Suppl. 21, pp. 175-195)
  • Public Interest Ethics by Bradley Chilton (1996 Vol. 58, Supp. 21, pp. 275-281)
  • Organizational Ethics by Sarah Sanderson King and Donald Cushman (1995)
  • Information Malpractice by Marianne Puckett and James Pat Craig (1993, Vol. 52, Suppl. 15, pp. 141-167)

Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security by Marian Quingley (Ed.) (Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2007).

The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics edited by Ruth Chadwick (University of Central Lancashire) (San Diego 1998) deals with topics such as:
  • Accounting and Business Ethics by Harold Q. Langenderfer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • Applied Ethics, Challenges to by Tim Dare (The University of Auckland)
  • Applied Ethics, Overview by Earl R. Winkler (University of British Columbia)
  • Computer and Information Ethics by Simon Rogerson (De Montfort University)
  • Computer Security by Eugene H. Spafford (Purdue University)
  • Confidentiality, General Issues of by Mary Beth Armstrong (California Polytechnic State University)
  • Confidentiality of Sources by Michel Petheram (Open University)
  • Conflict of Interest by Michael Davis (Illinois Institute of Technology)
  • Corporations, Ethics in by Francis Aguilar (Harvard University)
  • Corporate Responsibility by Celia Wells (University of Wells, Cardiff)
  • Information Management by Richard Mason (Southern Methodist University)
  • Informed Consent by Jonathan D. Moreno (SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn), Arthur L. Caplan (University of Pennsylvania) and Paul Root Wolpe (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Internet Protocol by Duncan Langford (University of Kent at Canterbury)
  • Freedom of Speech by Larry Alexander (University of San Diego)
  • Freedom of the Press in the USA by Stephen Klaidman (Kennedy Institut of Ethics, Georgetown University)
  • Privacy by Edmund F. Byrne (Indiana University)
  • Reputation Management by Corporations by Charles J. Fombrun (New York University)
  • Research Ethics by Caroline Whitbeck (Case Western Reserve University)
  • Science and Engineering Ethics by R. E. Spier (University of Surrey)
  • Scientific Publishing by Beth A. Fischer (University of Pittsburg) and Michael Zigmond (University of Pittsburg)
  • Social Ethics, Overview by D. Don Welch (Vanderbilt University)
  • World Ethics by Nigel Dower (University of Aberdeen)

Lexikon der Wirtschaftsethik edited by G. Enderle, K. Homann, M. Honecker, W. Kerber, H. Steinmann (Freiburg 1993):
  • Information, Informationstechnologie by Klaus Kornwachs
  • Neue Technologien by Klaus Kornwachs

Handbuch der Wirtschaftsethik edited by W. Korff et al.(Gütersloh 1999):
  • Informationsverhalten und Informationsstrukturen by Stefan Klein, Rolf Alexander Teubner

 

 

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