Informatics and professional responsibility |
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Authors: | Donald Gotterbarn |
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Institution: | (1) Computer and Information Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Box 70711, 37614 Johnson City, TN, USA |
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Abstract: | Many problems in software development can be traced to a narrow understanding of professional responsibility. The author examines
ways in which software developers have tried to avoid accepting responsibility for their work. After cataloguing various types
of responsibility avoidance, the author introduces an expanded concept of positive responsibility. It is argued that the adoption
of this sense of positive responsibility will reduce many problems in software development.
An earlier version of this paper was written for inclusion in S. Rogerson and T. W. Bynum, eds., Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Blackwell, (in press). Prepublished here with permission from the author and the editors. |
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Keywords: | computer ethics informatics professional responsibility |
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