Houston, Graham,  1950- <br/><br/>
Virtual morality :  Christian ethics in the computer age / 
Graham Houston ; foreword by David Cook. 
 - Leicester, UK :  Apollos,  c1998. 
 - 224 p. ;  pbk ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : Christian concern in an age of simulation :<br/>An age of simulation ;<br/>Ethics and technology ;<br/>Connections between philosophy of science and theology ;<br/>Connections between philosophy of technology and Christian ethics. -- Ch 1 : Values and virtual reality.<br/>Morality in a technological age ;<br/>Morality, reality and values ;<br/>Is technology value-neutral? ;<br/>The objectivity of human values ;<br/>Potential moral dilemmas posed by Virtual Reality ;<br/>Christian ethical reflection. -- Ch 2 : Technology and human nature.<br/>Virtual reality and Homo Faber ;<br/>Technology: ancient and modern ;<br/>Biblical anthropology and technology ;<br/>Technology as opportunity and threat in biblical perspective. -- Ch 3 : Ethics and reality.<br/>Morality and reality (virtual or otherwise) ;<br/>Virtual Reality and the ethics of Christian realism ;<br/>Virtual Reality, surrealism and the ethics machine ;<br/>The metaphysics of Virtual Reality ;<br/>Virtuality and postmodernity. -- Ch 4 : Technology, theology and human futures.<br/>The long-range impacts of technology ;<br/>Technology and futurology ;<br/>Technology, eschatology and Christian ethics. -- Ch 5 : Christian ethics as public truth.<br/>Basis: theology or sociology ;<br/>The nature of public truth ;<br/>Prophetic witness and technicism ;<br/>Criteria for evaluation<br/>Evaluation of criteria. -- Ch 6 : Virtual Reality : opportunities and threats.<br/>Review of current VR applications ;<br/>Virtual environments in an age of anxiety ;<br/>Approaching an ethical analysis of a current application ;<br/>The potential dangers of cyberspace ;<br/>The "virtues"of Virtual Reality ;<br/>Opportunities and threats. -- Ch 7 : Virtual morality and postmodernity.<br/>Summary of discussion ;<br/>Virtual Reality, technicism and postmodernity ;<br/>Virtual Morality: significance of irtual Reality for Christian ethics ;<br/>Order, freedom, judgement: significance of Christan ethics for Virtual Reality ;<br/>Philosophy of technology and Christian ethics in postmodernity ;<br/>Summary of main conclusions ;<br/>Living in the real and virtual worlds. -- Appendix 1 : A four-step process for ethical analysis nand decision making. Appendix 2 : Current Virtual Reality applications. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Virtual Reality. 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>241.6/HOU