Ethics and information science

Manfred Kochen

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987, vol. 38, issue 3, 206-210

Abstract: The challenge of ethical problem solving in the context of the information‐science professions has fostered debate over whether a code of ethics might not provide a valuable guide to decision making in situations involving ethical conflicts. Sample issues and questions are presented with an aim toward placing them in historical and philosophical frameworks for considering the tension between knowledge and power. While the article concludes that ethical choices are too dynamic and unpredictable to make a fixed code useful, practical guidelines to help information professionals act out of wisdom are offered. © 1987 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1987
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198705)38:33.0.CO;2-8

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:jamest:v:38:y:1987:i:3:p:206-210

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://doi.org/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-4571

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of the American Society for Information Science from Association for Information Science & Technology
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().