Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893441
David K. McGraw, Amanda G. Biesecker
In theory, science, technology, and engineering ethics lies at the intersection of these STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields and the disciplines of philosophy and/or religion. However, empirical studies suggest that there is relatively little interaction between those teaching courses such as bioethics or engineering ethics in biology or engineering departments and their counterparts in philosophy or religion departments. An analysis of the professors in academia suggests that most participate in one, and only one community of scholars. In order to address these concerns, the authors propose a number of possible solutions, including increased availability of philosophic and religious ethics instruction for STEM professors and of STEM education for religion and philosophy professors. In addition, structural changes in universities to encourage and promote interdisciplinary scholarship and team-teaching.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893428
Suresh Sharma, B. Thapa, I. Johansen, O. Dahlhaug, P. Stoa
This paper describes the development of Kathmandu University (KU) and how the vision of three Nepali university entrepreneurs have been realized in an academic institution that has the development of the social and economic conditions in the country as its foremost goal. KU's development strategy has been to seek cooperative partners from developed countries, and to utilize the considerable number of development agencies and donors that have sought partners in Nepal to its advantage. Another important part of KU's strategy has been to motivate its young Nepalese staff to train for advanced degrees at internationally renowned universities as an opening for full professorship at the institution. Through an NGO, a link to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, was established and a mutual cooperation between KU and NTNU was developed, as well as cooperation with a number of other universities. The paper describes this cooperation between a university in an industrialized country and a start-up university in a poor country and highlights it as the most effective means for north-south cooperation, motivated by the attitude that wealthy countries have a moral obligation to support poor countries in their struggle to improve the social and economic well-being of their citizen. An aim of balance and symmetry in the cooperation is regarded as ethically important.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893459
Abidemi Olufisayo Ologunde, Opeoluwa Tosin Eluwole, N. Udoh
Unlike natural disasters, artificial engineering disasters are avoidable. However, accidents do happen, and the bulk of the post-situational analyses of these disasters comprise ethical reviews and appraisals. Consequently, these reviews usually focus on the outcomes of these accidents: how they could have been averted by appropriate actions on the part of the engineers involved, rather than the actions and inactions during the design process, which ultimately led to the accident. In their work, Van de Poel and Verbeek (2006) examined how engineering ethics and science/technology studies (STS) complement one another vis-à-vis the various ethical issues that arise and also engineers' responsibilities for technological development. In this paper, the authors investigate whether ethical considerations by design engineers depend on the nature of the engineering design process involved and the external and internal dynamics of such process. It also examines how engineers' responsibilities affect ethical considerations.
与自然灾害不同，人工工程灾害是可以避免的。然而，事故确实会发生，这些灾难的大部分事后分析包括道德审查和评估。因此，这些审查通常侧重于这些事故的结果:如何通过相关工程师的适当行动来避免事故，而不是设计过程中的作为和不作为，这最终导致了事故。在他们的工作中，Van de Poel和Verbeek(2006)研究了工程伦理和科学/技术研究(STS)如何相互补充-à-vis出现的各种伦理问题以及工程师对技术发展的责任。在本文中，作者调查了设计工程师的伦理考虑是否取决于所涉及的工程设计过程的性质以及该过程的外部和内部动态。它还研究了工程师的责任如何影响道德考虑。
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893435
K. Pimple, Donald R. Searing, Cynthia Jones, K. Seelman, K. Miller, Katie Shilton
In this panel, 6 of 13 contributors to a recent book on ethics and pervasive information and communication technologies, or PICT [1], will make short presentations on their areas of expertise. About half of the panel's time will be reserved for open discussion.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893453
J. Murray, Joshua Fairfield
For more than three decades, research ethics in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, in the U.S. and beyond, has been guided by policies and standards derived from the Belmont Report. Although they have been adapted and revised over time, the underlying guidelines have limited applicability to the challenges of today's research environment, especially because of the influence of modern communications and information technologies and their ubiquitous presence across varied, and often incompatible, legal regimes and social norms. This paper examines a number of issues in this research context, with particular stress on the challenges posed by transnational experimental projects in virtual worlds and social networks. Several key aspects of the Menlo Report - a 2011 update to the Belmont Report - are also discussed. Consideration is given to a more rational and coordinated approach to managing ethics observance in multiple jurisdictions, with special attention on guidelines for the conduct of transnational research in and on virtual environments and online social network systems.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893440
P. Hylton
In fast-paced and rapidly-changing industries, achieving a competitive advantage can make or break an organization. This paper examines whether adhering to ethical practices presents a roadmap to achieving success in such an environment, or an impediment to that success. In particular, ethics in the motorsports industry is examined through the eyes of the students and faculty of the motorsports engineering program at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). This program is the only one of its kind in the United States, with both bachelors and masters programs in motorsports. Graduates seek careers in which they will be active participants in advancing the technology in, and making the decisions for, the most fast-paced industry on earth. Viewpoints from the literature of ethics and the literature of engineering leadership will be examined in light of contemporary news-making decisions and events from the motorsports industry. These events will be discussed as seen through the filter of faculty-student interaction and discussion within this engineering education program. All students enrolled in the program are required, from early in their plans of study, to spend time in industry internships and practicum courses working on the university race team. Thus, their exposure to the industry is strongly connected by experiential learning opportunities. Similarly, all faculty members in the program have spent time working in the motorsports industry, serving on race teams, with sanctioning bodies, or in other engineering-related supporting roles. Thus, the in-class discussions between these faculty and students yield an interesting perspective on the machinations witnessed and reported within the industry, examined in the context of ethical standards for professional practice. Real life incidents will be examined as the students wrestle with the conundrums of ethical decision making in an industry where a chance to gain competitive advantage can literally mean the difference between victory and defeat.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893375
Sarah J. Duda, Vickie Peters
Since the 1970's, the field of ethics in software engineering has attempted to define the boundaries of what was morally correct when dealing with problems aggravated, transformed, or created by computer technology. Efforts to codify ethics for computer software engineers resulted in bright line rules such as “thou shalt not appropriate other people's intellectual output” [1] and “honor property rights including copyrights and patent” [2]. Few instances in practice are, however, as black and white as these rules suggest. Rather, there are a number of grey areas where computer software engineers must question whether an action is morally correct. One ambiguity is when and to what extent it is morally acceptable to copy computer software code. This paper investigated whether software engineers comply with existing ethical standards surrounding intellectual property rights associated with computer software code.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893377
A. Ferrero, Veronica Scotti
Different definitions can be found for professional ethics. An attractive one, often defined in many codes of ethics, states that, when practicing a profession, an individual must refer to the state-of-the-art knowledge, and should not disregard any of the pieces of information that it provides him or her. There are however important professions, such as forensic metrology, that are across two very different disciplines, and refer to principles that may appear as conflicting. This paper discusses them briefly and proves, also referring to real cases, that favoring one instead of the other may result in a violation of professional ethics. On the contrary, the correct and complete exploitation of the available evidence is not only ethical, but helps justice accomplish its mission.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893436
S. Bringsjord, Naveen Sundar G., Daniel P. Thero, Mei Si
Alas, there are akratic persons. We know this from the human case, and our knowledge is nothing new, since for instance Plato analyzed rather long ago a phenomenon all human persons, at one point or another, experience: (1) Jones knows that he ought not to - say - drink to the point of passing out, (2) earnestly desires that he not imbibe to this point, but (3) nonetheless (in the pleasant, seductive company of his fun and hard-drinking buddies) slips into a series of decisions to have highball upon highball, until collapse.1 Now; could a robot suffer from akrasia? Thankfully, no: only persons can be plagued by this disease (since only persons can have full-blown P-consciousness2, and robots can't be persons (Bringsjord 1992). But could a robot be afflicted by a purely - to follow Pollock (1995) - “intellectual” version of akrasia? Yes, and for robots collaborating with American human soldiers, even this version, in warfare, isn't a savory prospect: A robot that knows it ought not to torture or execute enemy prisoners in order to exact revenge, desires to refrain from firing upon them, but nonetheless slips into a decision to ruthlessly do so - well, this is probably not the kind of robot the U.S. military is keen on deploying. Unfortunately, for reasons explained below, unless the engineering we recommend is supported and deployed, this might well be the kind of robot that our future holds.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893451
A. Chattopadhyay
In this paper, we review the ethical issues involved with scientific publication. The possible mal-practices are discussed. Deterrents to those mal-practices are often difficult to apply considering the scale and scope of every issue. On the other hand, as a researcher, one can get a strong moral standpoint with an understanding of moral philosophies. In this paper we link a particular moral philosophy, namely, the Consequentialist philosophy to the scientific practices. From the perspective of Consequentialism, the issues of scientific mal-practice and their deterrents are discussed. We further discuss possible large-scale countermeasures via alternative publication systems and show its relation to Consequentialism.
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