Many of the most pressing issues in information ethics—informational
privacy, surveillance, intellectual property, access to information, and
the distribution of information resources—can only be addressed
at the level of global politics. This paper develops an approach to
theorizing about political questions of concern to information ethics.
It begins by situating a political philosophy of information within the
broader field of ethics and defending a theoretical approach that is
practical, person-centered, and pluralistic. The method of dialogic
public reason, as articulated by John Rawls and supplemented with
insights from Jürgen Habermas, is described and defended. It is
argued that dialogic public reason provides a way to justify political
principles in a diverse global context. The paper concludes by relating
the idea of dialogic public reason to international human rights.
The putative human right to intellectual property is criticized on the
grounds that it does not pass the test of public reason.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89824
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2015.0000
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