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32Ethical education in software engineering: Responsibility in the production of complex systemsScience and Engineering Ethics 13 (4): 505-522. 2007.Among the various contemporary schools of moral thinking, consequence-based ethics, as opposed to rule-based, seems to have a good acceptance among professionals such as software engineers. But naïve consequentialism is intellectually too weak to serve as a practical guide in the profession. Besides, the complexity of software systems makes it very hard to know in advance the consequences that will derive from professional activities in the production of software. Therefore, following the spirit…Read more
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26Teaching Ethics to Engineers: A Socratic ExperienceScience and Engineering Ethics 22 (2): 567-580. 2016.In this paper we present the authors’ experience of teaching a course in Ethics for Engineers, which has been delivered four times in three different universities in Spain and Chile. We begin by presenting the material context of the course, and especially the intellectual background of the participating students, in terms of their previous understanding of philosophy in general, and of ethics in particular. Next we set out the objectives of the course and the main topics addressed, as well as t…Read more
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23Amnesic mental models do not completely spill the beans of deductive reasoningBehavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (4): 773-774. 1994.
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22Theoretical Considerations for the Articulation of Emotion and Argumentation in the Arguer: A Proposal for Emotion Regulation in DeliberationArgumentation 33 (3): 349-364. 2019.The concern for the role of emotion in argumentative encounters has rested upon the concept of emotion as arguments, emotions to obtain the adherence of the audience and reflect the virtues of a good arguer. In this paper, we focus on understanding emotion and argumentation based on cognitive approaches that identify the relationship between the two elements, to propose the use of emotion regulation strategies in deliberative dialogue. Bearing in mind that the intensity of emotional responses ma…Read more
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16Machine Ethics: Do Androids Dream of Being Good People?Science and Engineering Ethics 29 (2): 1-17. 2023.Is ethics a computable function? Can machines learn ethics like humans do? If teaching consists in no more than programming, training, indoctrinating… and if ethics is merely following a code of conduct, then yes, we can teach ethics to algorithmic machines. But if ethics is not merely about following a code of conduct or about imitating the behavior of others, then an approach based on computing outcomes, and on the reduction of ethics to the compilation and application of a set of rules, eithe…Read more
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14Resistance to mainstreaming gender into the higher education curriculumEuropean Journal of Women's Studies 25 (1): 86-101. 2018.Disregard of gender and of women’s contributions in the higher education curriculum is still a widespread phenomenon. Building on feminist institutionalism, this article explores the forms and types of resistance that efforts to engender the higher education curriculum must contend with and discusses the ways in which resistance to curricular reform is entrenched in a web of both gender-specific and apparently gender-neutral academic informal rules. In doing so, the authors use empirical evidenc…Read more
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13Hydrogen bonding in condensed-phase alcohols: some keys to understanding their structure and dynamicsPhilosophical Magazine 84 (13-16): 1599-1607. 2004.
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8Distal learning of the incremental capacity curve of a LiFePO4 batteryLogic Journal of the IGPL 30 (2): 301-313. 2022.An intelligent model of the incremental capacity curve of an automotive lithium-ferrophosphate battery is presented. The relative heights of the two major peaks of the IC curve can be acquired from high-current discharges, thus enabling the state of health estimation of the battery while the vehicle is being operated and in certain cases, aging mechanisms can be suggested. Our model has been validated using a large dataset representing different degradation scenarios, obtained from a recently av…Read more
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7Educational Encounters of the Third KindScience and Engineering Ethics 23 (6): 1791-1800. 2017.An engineer who becomes an educator in a school of software engineering has the mission to teach how to design and construct software systems, therein applying his or her knowledge and expertise. However, due to their engineering background, engineers may forget that educating a person is not the same as designing a machine, since a machine has a well-defined goal, whilst a person is capable to self-propose his or her own objectives. The ethical implications are clear: educating a free person mu…Read more
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6Schriften über die Gnade. Prolegomena Band III; Aurelius Augustinus (review)Mayéutica 18 (46): 430-431. 1992.
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5¿Existe una "filosofía española"? La opinión de un filósofo español actual: Eduardo NicolCuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofía 11 617-627. 1984.
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4Dislocation configurations around a nanoindentation in the surface of a fcc metalPhilosophical Magazine 83 (4): 485-502. 2003.We report a scanning tunnelling microscopy investigation of the emission of dislocations around nanoindentations in the form of dislocation arrangements previously called hillocks , consisting of two pairs of Shockley partial dislocations, each encompassing a stacking fault. The spatial arrangement and size distribution of hillocks around the nanoindentation traces are studied. We show that standard dislocation theory for an isotropic continuum can be used to describe the stability of the hilloc…Read more
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3Soto Carrasco, David (2023). Filosofía política y ética. Claves conceptuales para comprender el presente. Tirant Lo Blanch. 270 páginas (review)Las Torres de Lucca: Revista Internacional de Filosofía Política 13 (1): 67-69. 2024.Reseña al más reciente libro de David Soto Carrasco "Filosofía política y ética. Claves conceptuales para comprender el presente" (2023). En su obra, el autor, desde la perspectiva de la historia conceptual, recorre algunos de los conceptos fundamentales de la política moderna. Asimismo, realiza un análisis ético-crítico de problemas que atañen directamente a nuestro actualidad. El libro en conjunto constituye una crítica ético-política para comprender nuestro presente.
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That Very Special Form of Commitment (review)Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 20 (3). 2001.