Informatics and Professional Responsibility
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2001
Description
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.
Citation Information
Gotterbarn, Donald. 2001. Informatics and Professional Responsibility. Science and Engineering Ethics. Vol.7(2). 221-230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-001-0043-5 PMID: 11349362 ISSN: 1353-3452