University of Dayton

PHL 313

CHAPTER 7

Multiple-Choice Questions

1)An ancient Roman who wrote about the ethics of buying and selling was:

1. 1. Seneca
   2. Ovid
   3. Lucretius
   4. Cicero
   5. Virgil

2. Deborah Johnson argues that it is unethical to copy proprietary software because:
   1. Creating software is easy.
   2. Copyright laws are unclear.
   3. Software is property.
   4. Software is not a natural resource.
   5. Both (c) and (d)

3. Using                              ’s theory of property, a software developer could argue that the program she developed is rightfully hers because she created it with her labor.
   1. Aristotle
   2. Locke
   3. De George
   4. Nietzsche
   5. Cicero

4. Many discussions of property rights, Johnson asserts, assume that property is not merely a matter of what is useful, but rather a matter of:
   1. Power
   2. Privilege
   3. Nature
   4. Socialism
   5. Justice

5. Elizabeth Buchanan worries about information transfer across a major geographical divide and the inequities (especially information and technological inequities) that exist across that divide. The divide she is concerned about is:
   1. East–West
   2. North–South
   3. “Old Europe”–“New Europe”
   4. “Blue State”–“Red State”
   5. urban areas–rural areas

6. Elizabeth Buchanan argues that it “smacks of imperialism and colonialism” to continually neglect developing nations as potential suppliers of:

1. 1. Raw materials
   2. Human labor
   3. Work
   4. Internet users
   5. Information

7. Elizabeth Buchanan insists that                                  countries should make their own decisions regarding the flow of information.
   1. developing
   2. industrialized
   3. European
   4. Western
   5. democratic

8. Thompson mentions the possible use of mind-invading technology for all of these reasons EXCEPT:
   1. Help with criminal investigations
   2. Checking out potential partners before a first date
   3. Performance reviews in the workplace
   4. Figuring out terrorist plots
   5. Advertising

9. Kluckhorn’s definition of culture does NOT include:
   1. The total way of life for a people
   2. The social legacy an individual inherits from his group
   3. A way of thinking, feeling, and believing
   4. Mechanisms for the regulation of behavior
   5. Arts such as opera, ballet, and theater

10. Groom and Nass think that robots cannot be teammates because:
    1. Humans cannot trust robots in the same way they trust humans.
    2. Robots do not have “mental models” like humans do.
    3. Humans expect “humanness” from their teammates.
    4. Both (a) and (c)
    5. All of (a), (b), and (c)

11. If a robot is not identified as a full teammate, humans may treat it merely as:
    1. A friend
    2. A tool
    3. An agent of full moral capacity
    4. An entertainer
    5. A toy

12. Groom and Nass argue that teams adopt shared goals because forming teams to achieve shared goals makes it easier to achieve:
    1. Individual goals

1. 2. Robot goals
   3. Corporate goals
   4. Aesthetic ideals
   5. Human goals

13. Joy introduces the term “KMD,” which refers to:
    1. Kantian methodology
    2. Knowledge-enabled mass destruction
    3. Knowledge motivational demands
    4. Kapital mehr denken
    5. None of the above

14. The dystopias that Joy discusses are possible worlds in which:
    1. We no longer have any technology as a result of global disaster.
    2. The Internet destroys all distinct human cultures and makes us uniform.
    3. We focus on technology and forget to protect the ecosystem.
    4. Machines have power over humans or outcompete them.
    5. We have no incentive to create technology because of weak property laws.

15. Joy argues that we must find alternative outlets for forces of:
    1. Nature
    2. Morals
    3. Creativity
    4. Technology
    5. Evil

True/False Questions

1. One way property is created is by law.

2. Locke argues that leisure creates property.

3. Federal copyright protection is for the lifetime of the author plus seventy-five years.

4. Bentham introduced the idea of a Panopticon, from which guards could monitor any prison cell.

5. Johnson argues that copying proprietary software is unethical because it deprives someone of his or her legal rights.

6. Buchanan discusses the idea of information inequity in her essay “Information Ethics in a Worldwide Context.”

7. Buchanan argues that the Internet encourages “sameness,” a desirable quality for the worldwide community.