University of Washington

 


Department of Philosophy & iSchool

 

Adam D. Moore

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Information School
Program on Values in Society

E-Mail:
moore2@u.washington.edu

Web Pages
Vitae

Phil 100: Intro. to Philosophy
Phil 102: Contemporary Moral Problems
Phil 332: Modern Political Philosophy

Info 300: Intro. to Informatics
Phil 414: Philosophy of Law
Phil 401/Info 498: Information Ethics

Old Pic. Etc.

Education, Degrees
1997 Ph.D., Ohio State University
1994 M.A., Ohio State University
1990 B.A., Ohio State University

 

Philosophy Department

Information School  

PUBLICATIONS

Books     

Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations (Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming 2009) under contract, 336 pages.

Intellectual Property and Information Control: Philosophic Foundations and Contemporary Issues (Transaction Publishing/Rutgers University, Fall 2004 paperback, Fall 2001 hardback), 252 papges.

Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power. Edited by A. Moore.(University of Washington Press, 2005), 480 pages.

Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas. Anthology, edited by A. Moore (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), 352 pages.


Articles

1. "Defining Privacy." Journal of Social Philosophy 39 (fall 2008): 411-428.

2. “Justifying Informational Privacy Rights.”San Diego Law Review 45 (spring 2008).

3. “Intellectual Property in Information” (with Ken Himma). Forthcoming in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Summer 2008/09.

4. “Personality-Based, Rule-Utilitarian, and Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property,” in Information and Computer Ethics, edited by H. Tavani and K. Himma (John Wiley & Sons, 2008), p. 105-130.

5. "Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Hacking: Evaluating Free Access Arguments," in Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking, and Society, Ken Himma Ed. (Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2007), p. 235-254.

6. “Privacy,” with Randal Kemp. Forthcoming in Library Hi Tech: Special Issue on Information Ethics,Vol. 25 No. 1 (2007) Ken Himma ed.

7. “Intellectual Property, Genetic Information, and Gene Enhancement Techniques,” in Ethics, Computing, and Genomics: Moral Controversies in Computational Genomics edited by Herman Travani (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2005), p. 282-305.

8. "Information Ethics: An Introduction" with Kristene Unsworth. Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power edited by A. Moore (University of Washington Press, 2005), p. 11-28.

9. "Privacy, Liberty, and the Genetic Modification of Humans."  Journal of Philosophical Research, Special Supplement: Ethical Issues for the Twenty-First Century, Frederick R Adams ed., (Charlottesville: Philosophy Documentation Center Press, 2005): 81-95.

10. “Intellectual Property, Privilege, and Natural Rights.” A new introduction to the paperback edition of Intellectual Property and Information Control: Philosophic Foundations and Contemporary Issues (Transaction Publishing/Rutgers University, Fall 2004), p. xi-xvii.

11. “Values, Objectivity, and Relationalism.” The Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 38 (Fall 2004): 75-90.

12. “Privacy: Its Meaning and Value.” American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 40 (Fall 2003): 215-227.

13. “Intellectual Property: Theory, Privilege, and Pragmatism.” The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol. 16 (Fall 2003): 191-216.

14. “Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Social Progress: The Case against Incentives Based Arguments.”The Hamline Law Review, Vol. 26 (2003): 602-630.

15. "Owning Genetic Information and Gene Enhancement Techniques: Why Privacy and Property May Undermine Social Control of the Human Genome." Bioethics,Vol. 14 (Spring 2000): 97-119.

16. "Employee Monitoring & Computer Technology: Evaluative Surveillance v. Privacy." Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 10 (July 2000): 697-709. Reprinted in Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power. Ed. A. Moore (University of Washington Press, 2005), p. 251-264.

17. "Privacy and the Encryption Debate." Knowledge, Technology, and Policy, Vol. 12 (Winter 2000): 72-84.

18. "Intangible Property: Privacy, Power, and Information Control," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 35 (October, 1998): 365-378. Reprinted in Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power. Ed. A. Moore (University of Washington Press, 2005), p. 172-190.

19. "A Lockean Theory of Intellectual Property." The Hamline Law Review, Vol. 21 (January, 1998): 65-108.

20. "Property and Information Control." The Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association (January, 1998): 109-122.

21. "Introduction To Intellectual Property." in Intellectual Property: Moral Legal, and International Dilemmas, Ed. A. Moore (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), p. 1-14.

22. "Toward A Lockean Theory of Intellectual Property." in Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemma, Ed. A. Moore (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), p. 81-103.


Intellectual Property Bibliography Page

 

Forthcoming -- Completed -- Under Review


Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations. What I offer in this manuscript is a definition and justification of individual privacy rights, an account of how these rights should be codified in the law, and an application of the proposed theory to drug testing and public accountability. Forthcoming/under contract 2009...

“Privacy, Speech, and the Law.” Judicial animus toward protecting privacy especially when free speech issues are present is widespread. In fact across hundreds of cases speech nearly always trumps privacy. I argue that privacy concerns should not be so easily sacrificed in favor of “the public’s right to know.” The often-noted tension between privacy and speech in the legal realm is due an expansive view of expression built without foundations -- do we actually have a right to know anything falls within the broad domain of “public interest”? After considering numerous cases, a method for balancing free speech interests with individual privacy claims is advanced and defended.

“Drug Testing, Impairment, and Privacy.” In this article several arguments in favor of employee drug testing are considered and dismissed. Much of the analysis centers on the “consent argument” in favor of drug testing and why this argument is unsatisfactory.

“Privacy, Accountability, and the Patriot Act.” In this article I consider a number of issues related to governmental and societal control of information. More specifically, I focus on the question of when rights to control certain kinds of information may be justifiably overridden in the name of public security. It is argued that if security must trump privacy in some cases we should insist (as has often not been the case) on "sunlight" provisions, robust judicial oversight, and accountability.  I also argue that security arguments actually cut the other direction in some cases -- it is only through the implementation of strong privacy protections, sunlight provisions, and judicial oversight that we can obtain an appropriate level of security against government abuse of power, industrial espionage, unwarranted invasions into private domains, and information warfare or terrorism.

  (last updated 9/23/2008)

 

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