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28A scoping review of the literature featuring research ethics and research integrity casesBMC Medical Ethics 22 (1): 1-14. 2021.BackgroundThe areas of Research Ethics (RE) and Research Integrity (RI) are rapidly evolving. Cases of research misconduct, other transgressions related to RE and RI, and forms of ethically questionable behaviors have been frequently published. The objective of this scoping review was to collect RE and RI cases, analyze their main characteristics, and discuss how these cases are represented in the scientific literature.MethodsThe search included cases involving a violation of, or misbehavior, po…Read more
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40A review of the literature on ethical issues related to scientific authorshipAccountability in Research 27 (5). 2020.The article at hand presents the results of a literature review on the ethical issues related to scientific authorship. These issues are understood as questions and/or concerns about obligations, values or virtues in relation to reporting, authorship and publication of research results. For this purpose, the Web of Science core collection was searched for English resources published between 1945 and 2018, and a total of 324 items were analyzed. Based on the review of the documents, ten ethical t…Read more
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13Vulnerability in light of the COVID-19 crisisMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 24 (2): 153-154. 2021.
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127Empirical ethics and its alleged meta-ethical fallaciesBioethics 23 (4): 193-201. 2009.This paper analyses the concept of empirical ethics as well as three meta-ethical fallacies that empirical ethics is said to face: the is-ought problem, the naturalistic fallacy and violation of the fact-value distinction. Moreover, it answers the question of whether empirical ethics (necessarily) commits these three basic meta-ethical fallacies.
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49COVID-19 and the ethics of human challenge trialsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 24 (1): 1-2. 2021.
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21MyCites: a proposal to mark and report inaccurate citations in scholarly publicationsResearch Integrity and Peer Review 5 (1). 2020.BackgroundInaccurate citations are erroneous quotations or instances of paraphrasing of previously published material that mislead readers about the claims of the cited source. They are often unaddressed due to underreporting, the inability of peer reviewers and editors to detect them, and editors’ reluctance to publish corrections about them. In this paper, we propose a new tool that could be used to tackle their circulation.MethodsWe provide a review of available data about inaccurate citation…Read more
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14Responsibility-Enhancing Assistive Technologies and People with AutismCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 29 (4): 607-616. 2020.This paper aims to explore the role assistive technologies might play in helping people with autism spectrum disorder and a concomitant responsibility deficit become more morally responsible. Toward this goal, the authors discuss the philosophical concept of responsibility, with a reliance on Nicole Vincent’s taxonomy of responsibility concepts. They then outline the ways in which ASD complicates ascriptions of responsibility, particularly responsibility understood as a capacity. Further, they e…Read more
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61The Ethics of Geoengineering: A Literature ReviewScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (6): 3069-3119. 2020.Geoengineering as a technological intervention to avert the dangerous climate change has been on the table at least since 2006. The global outreach of the technology exercised in a non-encapsulated system, the concerns with unprecedented levels and scales of impact and the overarching interdisciplinarity of the project make the geoengineering debate ethically quite relevant and complex. This paper explores the ethical desirability of geoengineering from an overall review of the existing literatu…Read more
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33Privacy challenges in smart homes for people with dementia and people with intellectual disabilitiesEthics and Information Technology 21 (3): 253-265. 2019.The aim of this paper is to analyse the ethical issues relating to privacy that arise in smart homes designed for people with dementia and for people with intellectual disabilities. We outline five different conceptual perspectives on privacy and detail the ways in which smart home technologies may violate residents’ privacy. We specify these privacy threats in a number of areas and under a variety of conceptions of privacy. Furthermore, we illustrate that informed consent may not provide a solu…Read more
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20The Ethics of Smart Stadia: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Croke Park ProjectScience and Engineering Ethics 25 (3): 737-769. 2019.The development of “smart stadia”, i.e. the use of “smart technologies” in the way sports stadia are designed and managed, promises to enhance the experience of attending a live match through innovative and improved services for the audience, as well as for the players, vendors and other stadium stakeholders. These developments offer us a timely opportunity to reflect on the ethical implications of the use of smart technologies and the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT has the potential…Read more
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28Moving from value sensitive design to virtuous practice designJournal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 17 (2): 196-209. 2019.PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a critique of value sensitive design (VSD) and to propose an alternative approach that does not depart from a heuristic of value(s), but from virtue ethics, called virtuous practice design (VPD).Design/methodology/approachThis paper develops a philosophical argument, draws from a philosophical method (i.e. virtue ethics) and applies this method to a particular case study that draws from a narrative interview.FindingsIn this paper, authors show how a…Read more
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19Euthanasie: strafbar und doch zugestanden? Die niederländische Duldungspolitik in Sachen EuthanasieEthik in der Medizin 10 (1): 12-25. 1998.Zusammenfassung. Die niederländische Euthanasie-Politik erzeugt immer wieder Verwunderung in anderen Ländern: Grundsätzlich stellt Euthanasie sowohl in den Niederlanden als auch im Ausland einen strafbaren Tatbestand dar. Und hier wie dort werden unter bestimmten Umständen derartige Fälle geduldet. Im Ausland geschieht diese Duldung, falls überhaupt geduldet wird, im allgemeinen stillschweigend und inoffiziell. Die niederländischen Behörden dagegen regeln aktiv und öffentlich diejenigen Fälle vo…Read more
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23Ethics of crisis sedation: questions of performance and consentJournal of Medical Ethics 45 (5): 339-345. 2019.This paper focuses on the practice of injecting patients who are dying with a relatively high dose of sedatives in response to a catastrophic event that will shortly precipitate death, something that we term ‘crisis sedation.’ We first present a confabulated case that illustrates the kind of events we have in mind, before offering a more detailed account of the practice. We then comment on some of the ethical issues that crisis sedation might raise. We identify the primary value of crisis sedati…Read more
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8Correction to: A Morally Permissible Moral Mistake? Reinterpreting a Thought Experiment as Proof of ConceptJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 16 (1): 141-141. 2019.There was a spelling error in the second author’s last name in the original publication. The name is correct in this erratum.
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28Beyond the Equivalence Thesis: how to think about the ethics of withdrawing and withholding life-saving medical treatmentTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 40 (1): 21-41. 2019.With few exceptions, the literature on withdrawing and withholding life-saving treatment considers the bare fact of withdrawing or withholding to lack any ethical significance. If anything, the professional guidelines on this matter are even more uniform. However, while no small degree of progress has been made toward persuading healthcare professionals to withhold treatments that are unlikely to provide significant benefit, it is clear that a certain level of ambivalence remains with regard to …Read more
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18Commentary: From Liberal Eugenics to Political BiologyCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28 (1): 20-25. 2019.
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28Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Information Technologies. Some Ethical Observations—A Comment on Chalgoumi et alEthics and Behavior 29 (3): 218-222. 2019.This comment on Chalgoumi et al.’s article “Information Privacy for Technology Users with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Why Does It Matter?” focuses on the concept of autonomy in order to expand the scope of the ethical discussion. First we explore the conceptual and practical relations between privacy and autonomy. Following this, we address the issue of underfunding of information technology for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities in terms of distributive ju…Read more
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29The Ethics of Smart Stadia: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Croke Park ProjectScience and Engineering Ethics 25 (3): 737-769. 2019.The development of “smart stadia”, i.e. the use of “smart technologies” in the way sports stadia are designed and managed, promises to enhance the experience of attending a live match through innovative and improved services for the audience, as well as for the players, vendors and other stadium stakeholders. These developments offer us a timely opportunity to reflect on the ethical implications of the use of smart technologies and the emerging Internet of Things. The IoT has the potential to ra…Read more
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33The trilemma of designing international bioethics curriculaMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 21 (1): 1-2. 2018.
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Dublin City UniversityResearcher
Dublin, Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |