征稿期刊

Ethics and Information Technology

期刊级别

SSCI (JCR 2023)

IF 3.4

Q1 (ETHICS 7/77)

Q1 (INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE 30/161)

征稿主题

Ethics of VR

细分领域

Overlap and demarcation:

Which ethical paradigm (deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, contractualism) is best suited to evaluate virtual actions? How does the ethics of computer games (Sicart 2009) relate to the ethics of virtual reality? To what extent can the “cyberfeminist cyborg” be a cue for the ethics of VR?

Living and Acting in VR:

How do we act through virtual reality and how can these actions be evaluated? How can we use the Internet and the Metaverse as a virtual space for action and how should it be designed from an ethical point of view? Can we really live a good life in virtual reality, as David Chalmers (2022) has recently claimed, and if so, how? Is virtual rape possible, as Ray Kurzweil (2000) has asked, and if so, how can we criticize it from a moral and prevent it from a legal point of view?

Virtualizing ethical concepts:

How can we justify virtual values, and how do they relate to physically bound values? Do virtual avatars and identities have moral dignity? What are the characteristics and requirements of virtual morality, and what is the difference between human virtual morality and the artificial morality built into technological agents? What is the significance of material categories such as the ‘right to bodily integrity’ in VR?

New ethical challenges in VR:

What new ethical problems arise from virtual interaction and communication? What does the global hyperlinked structure of the Internet mean for the possibility and necessity of a universal morality? What is the ethical significance of phenomena such as virtual filter bubbles and virtual fake news? What ethical challenges arise from the combination of virtual reality with artificial intelligence?

重要时间

Submission Deadline: 31 July 2025