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Sci Eng Ethics ; 17(1): 149-69, 2011 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19821061

RESUMO

Engineering societies such as the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) and associated entities have defined engineering and professionalism in such a way as to require the benefit of humanity (NSPE 2009a, Engineering Education Resource Document. NSPE Position Statements. Governmental Relations). This requirement has been an unnecessary and unfortunate "add-on." The trend of the profession to favor the idea of requiring the benefit of humanity for professionalism violates an engineer's rights. It applies political pressure that dissuades from inquiry, approaches to new knowledge and technologies, and the presentation, publication, and use of designs and research findings. Moreover, a more politically neutral definition of engineering and/or professionalism devoid of required service or benefit to mankind does not violate adherence to strong ethical standards.


Assuntos
Engenharia/ética , Ética Profissional , Ética em Pesquisa , Direitos Humanos , Competência Profissional , Responsabilidade Social , Humanos , Política
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Sci Eng Ethics ; 15(1): 11-8, 2009 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18941925

RESUMO

It has been claimed that (1) computer professionals should be held responsible for an undisclosed list of "undesirable events" associated with their work and (2) most if not all computer disasters can be avoided by truly understanding responsibility. Commentators of "A Critique of Positive Responsibility in Computing" argue that this is not Donald Gotterbarn's view (Gotterbarn, JSEE 14(2):235-239, 2008) but that a critique of the view nevertheless raises significant moral issues within computing such as the ethical goals of a computing profession, the appropriate ethical stance toward bugs, and the public good with respect to computing (Miller, JSEE 14(2):245-249, 2008). Commentators also argue that "A Critique"'s "profitable misreading" demonstrates the "moral ecology" of organizations "dedicated narrowly to financial success" and that other "moral ecologies" that are customer or quality driven can be shown to be more important or preeminent (Huff, JSEE 14(2):241-244, 2008). It is argued here that (1) the hyper-inflated reading of Gotterbarn's and Ladd's views on positive responsibility persists despite Gotterbarn's explicit rejection of it, and that (2) such a reading of positive responsibility cannot be placed within a single moral ecology, nor can a single moral ecology be shown to be any more important or preeminent than others.


Assuntos
Computadores/ética , Ética Profissional , Obrigações Morais , Altruísmo , Humanos
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Sci Eng Ethics ; 14(2): 219-33, 2008 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18446446

RESUMO

It has been claimed that (1) computer professionals should be held responsible for an undisclosed list of "undesirable events" associated with their work and (2) most if not all computer disasters can be avoided by truly understanding responsibility. Programmers, software developers, and other computer professionals should be defended against such vague, counterproductive, and impossible ideals because these imply the mandatory satisfaction of social needs and the equation of ethics with a kind of altruism. The concept of social needs is debatable with no one possessing the authority to impose their version of them. Similarly, the notion of "positive responsibility" is difficult to apply, does not effectively change computing practice, and confuses good (i.e., efficient) computer engineering with good (i.e. moral) computer engineering.


Assuntos
Altruísmo , Informática/ética , Obrigações Morais , Competência Profissional , Software/ética , Interface Usuário-Computador , Códigos de Ética , Segurança Computacional/ética , Falha de Equipamento , Análise de Falha de Equipamento , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Necessidades e Demandas de Serviços de Saúde , Humanos , Informática/organização & administração , Filosofia , Poder Psicológico , Competência Profissional/normas , Papel Profissional , Valores Sociais , Software/normas , Design de Software
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Sci Eng Ethics ; 13(2): 265-73, 2007 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17717737

RESUMO

Authors such as Krishnasamy Selvan argue that "all human endeavors including engineering and science" have a single primary objective: "bettering humanity." They favor discussing "the history of science and measurement uncertainty." This paper respectfully disagrees and argues that "human endeavors including engineering and science" should not pursue "bettering humanity" as their primary objective. Instead these efforts should first pursue individual betterment. One cannot better humanity without knowing what that means. However, there is no one unified theory of what is to the betterment of humanity. Simultaneously, there is no one field (neither science, nor engineering, nor philosophy) entitled to rule univocally. Perhaps if theorists tended their own gardens, the common weal would be tended thereby.


Assuntos
Altruísmo , Engenharia/ética , Humanismo , Ciência/ética , Engenharia/educação , Humanos , Ciência/educação
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