Informação e ação moral

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Paulo Henrique Araújo Oliveira [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ética; Ecologia humana - Filosofia; Agente (Filosofia) Meio ambiente; Teoria da informação; Human ecology Philosophy
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/136000; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/24-02-2016/000858796.pdf

The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the relationship between information and moral action. Information is understood here as the substrate that can be used by agents to perform moral actions. Moral actions, in turn, express the conduct of human and nonhuman agents in their individual, collective, and environmental relations. The main problems that guide the present reflection can be indicated as follows: (1) What is the relation between information and moral action? (2) Must informational relations necessarily be limited to the domain of reason? (3) What are the advantages and disadvantages of investigating the relation between information and moral action from a non-anthropocentric (but still necessarily anthropomorphic) perspective? To address these problems, we will situate them in the context of Information Ethics, which provides a theoretical basis for the study of ethical issues related to the new technologies of information. Firstly, we provide an overview of the Ethical Information approach that we adopt as a foundation for the Ethical perspective that we intend to elaborate. We then analyze the hypothesis of Ecological Philosophy according to which perception is directly linked to action, independent of abstract representational mediations in the acquisition of information: ecological information is directly perceived by organisms, constituting an essential element in perception/action. Although Ethics is not directly an object of investigation of Ecological Philosophy, we use some of its tenets to investigate the relationship between ecological information and moral action, aiming to highlight the interdependence among moral agency, complexity, and environment. Finally, we present elements that could help with the constitution of an Ecological Informational Ethics approach.