02802nam a22002777a 4500003000900000005001700009008004100026040001500067082001400082100002800096245010500124260003800229300002800267505023700295505025400532505021000786505025400996505016701250505019101417505029701608505040901905505008002314505005502394650005402449653002102503AU-EpEBC20130614130424.0130509b        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aNEMBcNEMB  a241.6/HOU  aHouston, Graham,d1950-  aVirtual morality :bChristian ethics in the computer age /cGraham Houston ; foreword by David Cook.  aLeicester, UK :bApollos,cc1998.  a224 p. ;bpbk ;c23 cm.  aIntroduction : Christian concern in an age of simulation :
An age of simulation ;
Ethics and technology ;
Connections between philosophy of science and theology ;
Connections between philosophy of technology and Christian ethics. --  aCh 1 : Values and virtual reality.
Morality in a technological age ;
Morality, reality and values ;
Is technology value-neutral? ;
The objectivity of human values ;
Potential moral dilemmas posed by Virtual Reality ;
Christian ethical reflection. --  aCh 2 : Technology and human nature.
Virtual reality and Homo Faber ;
Technology: ancient and modern ;
Biblical anthropology and technology ;
Technology as opportunity and threat in biblical perspective. --  aCh 3 : Ethics and reality.
Morality and reality (virtual or otherwise) ;
Virtual Reality and the ethics of Christian realism ;
Virtual Reality, surrealism and the ethics machine ;
The metaphysics of Virtual Reality ;
Virtuality and postmodernity. --  aCh 4 : Technology, theology and human futures.
The long-range impacts of technology ;
Technology and futurology ;
Technology, eschatology and Christian ethics. --  aCh 5 : Christian ethics as public truth.
Basis: theology or sociology ;
The nature of public truth ;
Prophetic witness and technicism ;
Criteria for evaluation
Evaluation of criteria. --  aCh 6 : Virtual Reality : opportunities and threats.
Review of current VR applications ;
Virtual environments in an age of anxiety ;
Approaching an ethical analysis of a current application ;
The potential dangers of cyberspace ;
The "virtues"of Virtual Reality ;
Opportunities and threats. --  aCh 7 : Virtual morality and postmodernity.
Summary of discussion ;
Virtual Reality, technicism and postmodernity ;
Virtual Morality: significance of irtual Reality for Christian ethics ;
Order, freedom, judgement: significance of Christan ethics for Virtual Reality ;
Philosophy of technology and Christian ethics in postmodernity ;
Summary of main conclusions ;
Living in the real and virtual worlds. --  aAppendix 1 : A four-step process for ethical analysis nand decision making.  aAppendix 2 : Current Virtual Reality applications.  aInformation technologyxMoral and ethical aspects  aVirtual Reality.