Responsibilities not ducked

Blended, Not Bossy: Ethics Roles, Responsibilities and Expertise in Design

What are the best ways for design teams attend to issues of power, inequity, trust and other ethical concerns as they arise in design? Literature on value-sensitive design (VSD) and technology ethics has advocated for a range of design methods that propose different roles and responsibility for ethics during technology development. This paper explores four provocations that imagine different ro...

Neuroethical responsibilities.

Neuroscience represents a dynamic area of biomedical research where neuroethical responsibilities for researchers are emerging. This paper is the companion piece to the French-language one also published in this issue of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. It serves as a review of recent advances in neuroethics through the lens of three cases: (1) incidental finding of anomalies in n...

Responsibilities in Organizations

This paper addresses the issue of responsibilities within organizations of agents. The main aim of the research is to provide a formal analysis of the connections between collective obligations to individual responsibilities. Which individual agent in a group should be held responsible if an obligation directed to the whole group is not fulfilled? To this aim, concepts from planning literature ...

Forgotten your responsibilities?

The online banking systems offered by the Lloyds Banking Group (including Bank of Scotland & Halifax) and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (including Natwest, Royal Bank of Scotland & Ulster bank) are vulnerable to a remote attack which allows an adversary to commit financial fraud. The vulnerability has arisen as a result of poor software engineering practice which neglected security in favour...

Ethical responsibilities toward wildlife.