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That Very Special Form of Commitment (review)Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 20 (3). 2001.
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16Resistance 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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31Teaching 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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23Machine 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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11Educational 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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48Ethical 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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16Hydrogen bonding in condensed-phase alcohols: some keys to understanding their structure and dynamicsPhilosophical Magazine 84 (13-16): 1599-1607. 2004.
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8Dislocation 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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17Estrategias gerenciales en el marco de las competencias tecnológicas para el desarrollo de televisoras educativas universitariasTelos (Venezuela) 12 (3): 342-359. 2010.
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |