CIS3250 Midterm Exam Study Guide
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Reading
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You should be lightly familiar with  Plato's Euthyphro: who are the
participants, and the essential tension between laws, their enforcement,
and ethics. You should be able to recognize the Mill and Kant passages;
I will ask you to identify excerpts from each of these.

Topical areas
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  Normative formulations:  principles, formulations, and Spinello's take 
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  Utilitarianism
  Ethical egoism
  Contractarianism
  Principlism
  Virtue systems
  Deontological systems

  Legal systems versus ethical systems
  Crimes of being: attainder, in rem forfeiture
  Tools can be used for good purposes and for bad purposes

  Falsifiability
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  Definition, application in the sciences, questions about its limitations

  History
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  People: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Boole, Selden

  Professional ethics
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  Does "computer ethics" exist as a separate field of 
    study from ethics in general? If so, why?
  Codes of ethics: ACM, LOPSA, ACS, Archimedean Oath

  Societal sphere and computer ethics
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  Digital sovereignty
  China's implementation of a "social credit" system
  Surveillance capitalism
  Pervasive Surveillance, panopticon
  Encryption: ethical and legal issues
  Artificial intelligence: Project Debater, robotics

    Privacy
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    Different societies have different concerns
    What kind of legal formulations exist with regard to privacy both
       here in the United States and other places throughout the world
    Google and Project Dragonfly

    Intellectual property
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    Legal formulations; ethical bases offered for intellectual property
    Berne Convention
    Copyright
    Patents
    First sale doctrine
    DRM