Ethics and Communication

Göran Collste is a Professor at the Centre for Applied Ethics at Linköping University, Sweden. He is the author of Global Rectificatory Justice (2015) and Is Human Life Special? (2004) and was until 2015 President of Societas Ethica (European Society for Research in Ethics).Contributors: Maren Behrensen, Lecturer at the Centre for Applied Ethics, Linköping University, Sweden ; Heiner Bielefeldt, Professor of Human Rights and Human Rights Policy, University of Erlangen, Germany; Nigel Dower, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, UK; Peter Gan, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University Science of Malaysia; Kiyoshi Murata, Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji University, Japan; Yohko Orito, Faculty of Law and Letters, Ehime University, Japan;Elin Palm, Assistant Professor, Centre for Applied Ethics, Linköping University, Sweden; Hans Ingvar Roth, Professor of Human Rights, Institute for Turkish Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden.

How are values and norms communicated in a globalised world? What happens to a value like privacy when Facebook is introduced in Japan? How do social medias challenge shared and divergent values across particular societies? This anthology brings contributions by European and Asian scholars, who question issues like the East/West dichotomy, the need for consensus and problems of epistemic injustice.

• 1. Introduction: Ethics and Communication – Global Perspectives, Göran Collste / Part I Theory / 2. Global Ethics: A Framework for Thinking about Communication, Nigel Dower / 3. Treacherous Tropes: How Ethicists Communicate, Maren Behrensen / Part II Ethics Across Religious and Cultural Borders / 4. "Western" Versus "Islamic" Human Rights Conceptions? A Critique of Cultural Essentialism in the Discussion on Human Rights, Heiner Bielefeldt / 5. Peng Chun Chang, Intercultural Ethics and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Hans Ingvar Roth / 6. Critical Thinking and Culture: Shared Values, Different Guises, Soraj Hongladarom / 7. Religious Transcendence: Hope for Global Communication Ethics, Peter Gan / Part III Ethics and Communication: Case Studies / 8. Communication Ethics in Japan: A Socio-cultural Perspective on Privacy in the Networked World, Kiyoshi Murata and Yohko Orito / 9. What is the Critical Role of Intercultural Information Ethics?, Elin Palm / Bibliography / Index / Notes on Contributors