TY  - BOOK
AU  - Houston, Graham,
TI  - Virtual morality: Christian ethics in the computer age 
U1  - 241.6/HOU 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Leicester, UK
PB  - Apollos
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Virtual Reality
N1  - Introduction : 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. --; Ch 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. --; Ch 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. --; Ch 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. --; Ch 4 : Technology, theology and human futures.
The long-range impacts of technology ;
Technology and futurology ;
Technology, eschatology and Christian ethics. --; Ch 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. --; Ch 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. --; Ch 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. --; Appendix 1 : A four-step process for ethical analysis nand decision making; Appendix 2 : Current Virtual Reality applications
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