Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xvii
Part One Textbook
Chapter 1 Why Ethics? Why Science Fiction? 3
Chapter 2 Ethical Frameworks 25
Chapter 3 Managing Knowledge 99
Chapter 4 Personhood and Privacy 141
Chapter 5 Technology and Society 203
Chapter 6 Professional Ethics 279
Part Two Anthology
Introduction to the Story Bank 315
"Dolly," by Elizabeth Bear 323
"Message in a Bottle," by Nalo Hopkinson 337
"The Gambler," by Paolo Bacigalupi 353
"The Regression Test," by Wole Talabi 375
"Apologia," by Vajra Chandrasekera 385
"Asleep at the Wheel," by T. Coraghessan Boyle 391
"Codename: Delphi," by Linda Nagata 405
"Here-and-Now," by Ken Liu 415
"Lacuna Heights," by Theodore McCombs 421
"Not Smart, Not Clever," by E. Saxey 435
"Today I am Paul," by Martin L. Shoemaker 449
"Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™," by Rebecca Roanhorse 461
Index 477

About the Author

Emanuelle Burton is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she teaches courses in ethics. Judy Goldsmith is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky. Nicholas Mattei is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Tulane University. Cory Siler is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Narrative Intelligence Lab at the University of Kentucky. Sara-Jo Swiatek earned her PhD in ethics from the University of Chicago.