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1. Answer the given questions and submit them in Microsoft Word.
Chapter 1:
1. What is cyberethics? How is it different from and similar to computer ethics and Internet ethics?
2. Summarize the key aspects of each of the "four phases" we used to describe the evolution of cyberethics as a field of applied ethics.
3. What alternative strategy does James Moor use to analyze the question whether cyberethics issues are unique?
4. Summarize the principal aspects of the perspective of cyberethics as a field of proffessional ethics.
5. What does Brey mean by "morally opaque" or "morally nontransparent" features embedded in computer technology?
Chapter 2:
1. What is meant by a moral system? What are some of the key differences between the "rules of conduct" and the "principles of evaluation" that comprise a moral system?
2. How do religion, law, and philosophy each provide different grounds for justifying a moral principle?
3. Summarize the four different kinds of "discussion stoppers" in ethical discourse that we examined.
4. What is moral relativism? How is it different from cultural relativism?
5. What is meant by the expression "contract-based" ethical theories?
Chapter 3:
1. What is critical thinking, and how can it be applied to ethical issues involving cybertechnology?
2. What is a logical argument, and how is it different from a claim or statement?
3. What is required for an argument to be sound? Construct an example of a sound argument.
4. What is an "informal logical fallacy"? Why do logicians and philosophers give specific labels to some common fallacies that occur in everyday reasoning?
5. What is the Fallacy of Appeal to Authority? Provide an example of this fallacy involving either an issue in cyberethics or an aspect of cybertechnology.
Chapter 4:
1. What is professional ethics?
2. Do computer professionals have special moral responsibilities that ordinary computer users do not have? If so, what are some of those special responsibilities?
3. What are professional codes of ethics, and what functions do these codes serve?
4. Do computer professionals have a presumed, or prima facie, obligation of loyalty to their employers? Explain.
5. Describe the arguments by Ronal Duska and John Ladd regarding employee loyalty
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