Informatics and professional responsibility
Date
2001-07-01
Authors
Advisors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
ISSN
1353-3452
Volume Title
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Type
Article
Peer reviewed
Abstract
Description
Many problems in software development can be traced to a narrow understanding of professional responsibility. This paper examines ways in which software developers have tried to avoid accepting responsibility for their work. After cataloguing various types of responsibility avoidance, an expanded concept of positive responsibility is introduced. It is argued that the adoption of this sense of positive responsibility will reduce many problems in software development. This provocative paper continues to have impact most recently being reprinted as a book chapter in Computer Ethics, ed. John Weckert, Ashgate 2007.
Keywords
RAE 2008, UoA 23 Computer Science and Informatics
Citation
Gotterbarn, D.W. (2001) Informatics and professional responsibility. Science and Engineering Ethics, 7(2), pp. 221-230