Publications associées à Responsabilité morale

Institutions and Incentives in Knowledge Production and Diffusion: From Science to Innovation

This thesis presents four essays providing novel empirical and theoretical insights on the incentives and institutional structures that favor knowledge production and diffusion. The first two studies analyze these processes in the realm of scientific resea ...

EPFL2020

Exploring the diversity of social preferences: Is a heterogeneous population evolutionarily stable under assortative matching?

Boris Thurm, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Why do individuals make different decisions when confronted with similar choices? This paper investigates whether the answer lies in an evolutionary process. Our analysis builds on recent work in evolutionary game theory showing the superiority of a given ...

2018

The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Cécile Hardebolle, Ingrid Le Duc

In recent years, a commitment to professional ethics and professional responsibility has been included among the learning outcomes required of engineering education programmes in many counties. So, how should engineering ethics be taught? There is evidence ...

2015

The Ethical Landscape of Robotics

Aude Billard, Pawel Lichocki

This paper surveys some of the main ethical issues pertaining to robotics that have been discussed in the literature. We start with the idea of responsibility ascription that arises when an autonomous system malfunctions or harms people. Next, we discuss v ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

On the influence of symbols and myths in the responsibility ascription problem in roboethics - A roboticist’s perspective

Aude Billard, Pierre-André Mudry, Sarah Dégallier Rochat

Because of the increasing developments of humanoid robots, humans and robots are going to interact more and more often in the near future. Thus, the need for a well-defined ethical framework in which these interactions will take place is very acute. In thi ...

2008