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Reply to Vaccaro ’ s Information Ethics as Macroethics : Perspectives for Further

Foreword Information Ethics (IE) is a lively area of philosophical research that has been attracting an increasing amount of interesting work. A recent special issue of Ethics and Information Technology, edited by Charles Ess (" Luciano Floridi's Philosophy of Information and development of several lines of critical investigations of some of the initial ideas and arguments that I have tried to articulate and support during the past decade. Indeed, I take it as a good omen that this article, containing the replies to the articles published in the APA Newsletter, appears exactly ten years after " Information Ethics: On the Theoretical work that I consider the starting point of my research in the field. Ten years of sustained, international research of high standards is a long time in any academic field. In Information Ethics this is even more so, given the fast-paced and radical transformations involving information and communication technologies (ICT). As a result, IE has certainly widened its scope. It now interacts with many other ethical fields, from business ethics to environmental ethics, from medical ethics to the ethics of nanotechnologies, from the ethics of cyberwar to the ethics of e-research. But IE has also deepened its conceptual insights. These involve now dialogues with other philosophical and ethical traditions, such as Contractualism and Buddhism, as well as analyses and discussions of metaphysical, epistemological and logical topics, from digital physics to the method of levels of abstraction, from structural realism to the philosophy of information. In this rich and varied context, informed and reasonable debates and disagreements are welcome. Not only are they clear