Center for Business Ethics

Bentley College

Dr. Richard De George, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Business Administration at the University of Kansas gave the following talk as the Bell Atlantic Visiting Professor of Business Ethics and Information Technology at the Center for Business Ethics, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts on March 22, 1999

• Introduction

• Thesis I. The IT head-in-the-sand syndrome

• Thesis II. The abdication of IT ethical responsibility

• Thesis III. Where are the business ethicists when you need them?

• Thesis IV. Surmounting the information nexus

• Thesis V. Confronting the communication complex

• Thesis VI. The American information privacy schizophrenia

• Thesis VII. Mickey Mouse isn't a program

• Conclusion