From Oxford Online, we find these definitions:
philosophy: The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
ethics: Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity.
Gift of Fire, chapter 1 "Unwrapping the Gift".
Plato's Euthyphro (audio version is available here.)
Excerpt from Mill's Utilitarianism
Excerpt from Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Gift of Fire, chapter 2 "Privacy".
Nicomachean Ethics, Books I-III
Gift of Fire, chapter 3 "Freedom of Speech" and chapter 4 "Intellectual Property".
Gift of Fire, chapter 5 "Crime"
RECOMMENDED BUT *NOT* REQUIRED: Human Use of Human Beings
Gift of Fire, chapter 6 "Work"
Gift of Fire, chapter 7 "Evaluating and Controlling Technology" and chapter 8 "Errors, Failures, and Risks"
Gift of Fire, chapter 9 "Professional Ethics and Responsibilities"
Obligatory xkcd:
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Worth Noting Now
2017-01-09: CODE 2018: ACM's revision process for its Code of Ethics: the current draft and a request for comments
News Items
2017-01-09: Do you own your own fingerprints?
2017-01-09: Makers of Self Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
2017-01-09: Driverless Cars: Who Gets Protected
2017-01-09: The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles
2017-01-09: Save the Driver or Save the Crowd?
2017-01-09: Dallas Shooter Killed By Bomb Robot In Policing First
2017-01-11: Finding inspiration for art in the betrayal of privacy
Various Ethics-oriented Online Resources
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
Collection of ethical code URLs from NC State
Computer and Information Ethics (in particular, see the Uniqueness debate between Maner and Johnson)
2017-01-11: Bynum: Computer ethics: Its birth and its future
2017-01-11: Johnson: Computer systems: Moral entities but not moral agents
2017-01-11: A view from the White House on the impact of automation on the economy
2017-02-15: New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk
2017-02-15: Algorithms Secretly Run the World
2017-02-15: Weapons of Math Destruction
2017-02-20: Fearful of Hacking, Dutch Will Count Ballots by Hand
2017-02-21: It is too easy to steal a second-hand connected car
2017-03-08: Wikileaks Vault 7, Year 0
2017-03-08: Six interesting bits from Vault 7
2017-03-08: A member of Lawfare's initial take on Vault 7
2017-03-08: Another member of Lawfare's initial take on Vault 7
2017-03-08: Cyberwarfare against North Korea
2017-03-27: A Call to Let's Encrypt: Stop Issuing "PayPal" Certificates
2017-03-27: Let's Encrypt Has Issued Certificates to Over 14,000 PayPal Phishing Sites
2017-03-27: Let's Encrypt Are Enabling the Bad Guys and Why They Should
2017-03-27: Bill Gates Versus the Robots
2017-03-27: The End of Labor: How to Protect Workers from the Rise of Robots
2017-03-28: After 12 Rejects, Apple Accepts App that That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes
2017-03-29: Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard (Fourth Industrial Revolution)
2017-03-29: WhatsAPp must be accessible to authorities, says Amber Rudd
2017-03-29: No 10 Repeats Rudd's call for authorities to access encrypted messages
2017-03-29: The Importance of Strong Encryption to Security
2017-04-10: Vigilanteism: How to force manufacturers to take IOT security seriously
2017-04-10: Autonomity: Robot Surgeon Bests Human Surgeons
2017-04-10: Hand-to-hand cyberwar
2017-04-10: Some of the Equation Group's targets
2017-04-10: If Animals have rights, should robots also?
2017-04-10: World Economic Forum's Top 9 Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence
2017-04-10: Machine Ethics: The Robot's Dilemma
2017-04-11: The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
2017-04-11: China Moves to Further TIghten Regulation of Digital Information
2017-04-11: Chinese Firm Cuts Costs by Hiring Army of Robots
2017-04-12: Florida's current Good Samaritan statute
2017-04-12: Three Challenges for the Web
2017-04-12: Computing and Moral Responsibility
2017-04-14: Russian Humanoid Robots Learns to Shoot
2017-04-17: Uber for Carjacking
2017-04-17: Can Liberty Survive the Digital Age?
2017-04-17: United States Air Force Demonstrates Autonomously Controlled F16
2017-04-17: OpenRobotEthics
2017-04-17: Autonomous Weapons
2017-04-17: Autodraw
2017-04-17: Autodraw review
2017-04-17: Rules for Robots?
2017-04-17: Should Autonomous Cars Be Forced to Save Lives?
2017-04-17: Robots and Agriculture
2017-04-19: Hajime, mo
2017-04-19: Apple Removes New York Times Apps from Its Store in China
Books
Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
Norbert Weiner, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (abbreviated HUHB in the notes.)
Other
Excerpt from The Grand Design episode of "Yes, Prime Minister"
The Future of Employment (PDF)
How Aristotle Created the Computer
