December 1993 Case Studied Computers and Society The Captain K n o w s Best Don Gotterbarn Page 19 discussed and by contributing your own case studies. 2 Below is a fictional case that involves several ethical issues such as the acceptable exercise of paternalism, egoism in system design, following the principle of cause no harm, honoring your contracts (promises), and meeting minimal professional standards. East Tennessee State University Research has shown that one of the most effective ways to introduce ethical issues into the classroom is through the discussion of case studies among peers in several courses. 1 There are, however, several pitfalls in this methodology. The aim of this column is twofold ... to provide detailed cases that avoid problems with traditional ethical case studies, and to conduct a public discussion o f case studies in computer ethics. You are encouraged to participate in this process. 1. Sometimes the case studies are only tangentially related to computer ethics. Even though they contain significant detail they are much too broad and the ethical issues are so clouded that students cannot get hold of the subject. 2. Sometimes the case studies are so vague that there is no
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The captain knows best
Gotterbarn, Don
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, Volume 23 (3-4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1993
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