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100 _aHouston, Graham,
_d1950-
245 _aVirtual morality :
_bChristian ethics in the computer age /
_cGraham Houston ; foreword by David Cook.
260 _aLeicester, UK :
_bApollos,
_cc1998.
300 _a224 p. ;
_bpbk ;
_c23 cm.
505 _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. --
505 _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. --
505 _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. --
505 _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. --
505 _aCh 4 : Technology, theology and human futures. The long-range impacts of technology ; Technology and futurology ; Technology, eschatology and Christian ethics. --
505 _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. --
505 _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. --
505 _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. --
505 _aAppendix 1 : A four-step process for ethical analysis nand decision making.
505 _aAppendix 2 : Current Virtual Reality applications.
650 _aInformation technology
_xMoral and ethical aspects
653 _aVirtual Reality.
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