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Computer ethics and neoplatonic virtue: a reconsideration of cyberethics in the light of Plotinus' ethical theory / Giannis Stamatellos -- The tension between human and cyborg ethics / Anne Gerdes -- Constructivist and constructionist approaches to graduate teaching in Second Life: ethical...

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Governance in perspective: the issue of normativity / Laurence Masclet, Philippe Goujon -- Norms, values, argumentation, and the limits of rationality / Pierre Livet -- Rational planning, principles and contexts / Emmanuel Picavet, Caroline Guibet Lafaye -- Ethical issues of emerging ICT...