The First International Workshop
for Foundations of Information Ethics

Date: March 15 and 16

Place:Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto
Tel: +8175-341-1121

Program FINE99

March 15 Monday

• Morning

  10:30 Shigeo Tsujii (Chuo University)

  Keynote Talks

  1. 11:00 Masahiko Mizutani (Kyoto University)
  2. 11:45 Helen Nissenbaum (Princeton University)

  Lunch

• Afternoon

  13:30 Makoto Nagao (President of Kyoto University)

  Section 1: Information Ethics and Philosophy

  1. 13:45 James Moor (Darthmouth College, U.S.A)
     How Can Ethical Theory Be Applied to Information Technology?

  2. 14:30 Kyuichiro Takahashi (Chiba University)
     Why Are We Sometimes So Reluctant to See Information as Commodities?

  3. 15:45 Jeroen van den Hoven (Erasmus University, the Netherlands)
     Moral Thinking about IT: Distributive Justice and Equal Access

  4. 16:30 Tetsuji Iseda (University of Maryland, U.S.A.)
     Information Ethics and its Methodology: Wide Reflective Equilibrium as a Form of Modest Foundationalism

  5. 17:15 Itaru Shimazu (Chiba University)
     Spontaneous Order and Information Ethics

  18:30 Reception

March 16 Wednesday

• Morning

  Section 2: Applied Issues

  1. 10:00 Ken Shiotani (Chiba University)
     Individuals in Information Society

  2. 10:45 Satoshi Eguchi (Kyoto University)
     The Unauthorized Access Issue in Japan

  3. 11:30 Philip Brey (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
     Computer Ethics and Virtual Reality Technology

  4. 12:15 Mitsugu OCHI (Hiroshima University)
     Education of "Information Ethics" and Its Idola

  Lunch

• Afternoon

  Section 3: Technical Issues

  1. 14:00 Jean-Francois Blanchette (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.)
     Signing on the Line, Electronically -- A Story of Ritual, Mathematics, and Infrastructure

  2. 14:45 Yasutoshi Ishizaki (Information and Communications Security Project Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan )
     Information Security and Privacy Issues in Japan

  3. 15:30 Masashi Tsuboi (Hiroshima University)
     Ethical Foundations of Intellectual Property Rights

  4. 16:15 Syun Tutiya (Chiba University)
     The Concept of the Anonymous Internet as a Red Herring

  17:30 Closing