NDLI: A Critique of Positive Responsibility in Computing

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Stieb, James A.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	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.
Starting Page	219
Ending Page	233
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13533452
Journal	Science and Engineering Ethics
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	14715546
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-04-30
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Altruism Computer ethics Responsibility Self-interest Software engineering Philosophy Medicine/Public Health Biomedical Engineering Engineering Philosophy of Science Ethics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects Health (social science) Management of Technology and Innovation Health Policy

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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