Ethics and Robot Democratization: Reflecting on Integrative Ethics Practices

Ethics Series Nephrologists’ Professional Ethics in Dialysis Practices

Although the number of incidents is unknown, professional quality-oriented renal organizations have become aware of an increased number of complaints regarding nephrologists who approach patients with the purpose of influencing patients to change nephrologists or dialysis facilities (hereinafter referred to as patient solicitation). This development prompted the Forum of ESRD Networks and the R...

The ethics of robot servitude

Suppose we could build creatures with intelligence comparable to our own, who by design want to do tasks we find unpleasant. May we build such creatures? This is the central question I wish to examine. Before we turn to my answer and its defense, though, I’d like briefly to consider something philosophers typically do not stop to consider: namely, why we might ask the question in the first plac...

Automated Reasoning for Robot Ethics

Deontic logic is a very well researched branch of mathematical logic and philosophy. Various kinds of deontic logics are considered for different application domains like argumentation theory, legal reasoning, and acts in multi-agent systems. In this paper, we show how standard deontic logic can be used to model ethical codes for multi-agent systems. Furthermore we show how Hyper, a high perfor...

Research on medical practices and the ethics of disclosure.

In March 2013, the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) issued a finding against the University of Alabama and other institutions for failing to meet regulatory informed consent requirements, in particular regarding reasonably foreseeable risks during the conduct of the Surfactant, Positive Pressure, and Oxygenation Randomized Trial. This study compared 2 different target oxygen saturatio...

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.