IT108
ANTIPOLO CAMPUS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
A.Y: 2014 – 2015
CASE STUDY IN COMPUTER ETHICS (PART 1)
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The Good Works Project
Wendy Fischman and her colleagues in the Good Works Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are involved in a large research project examining how young people deal with ethical problems in their professions. The Good Works Project very broadly defines “profession” as follows:
On can define “profession” narrowly, including only those careers – such as law or medicine – that require specific training and licensing. The definition used here is much broader. It encompasses any career in which the worker is awarded a degree of autonomy in return for services to the public that are performed at a high level. According to this definition, it is within the power if the individual worker to behave like a professional should she or he chooses to do so.
The phrases “services to the public” and “performed at a high level” are similar to the characteristics of a profession identified by Bayles. The definitions do not, however, fully agree; the definition used by the Good Works Project would include a number of occupations that lack Bayles’s necessary attributes.
Reflection Questions:
1. Would an occupation that had Bayles’s three required attributes plus the three additional attributes Bayles considers common to most professions necessarily be a profession according to the definition used by the Good Works Project? Explain.
2. Is the weather person on the local television station a professional according to either Bayles of the Good Works Projects? Explain.
A Moral Basis for Professions
Michael Davis, the philosopher and author whose definitions we used doesn’t try to nail down the particular attributes of a profession. Instead, he defines “profession” in terms of moral issues (3);
A profession is a number of individuals in the same occupation voluntary organized to earn a living by openly
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
A.Y: 2014 – 2015
CASE STUDY IN COMPUTER ETHICS (PART 1)
NAME:
SCORE:
COURSE:
RATING:
The Good Works Project
Wendy Fischman and her colleagues in the Good Works Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are involved in a large research project examining how young people deal with ethical problems in their professions. The Good Works Project very broadly defines “profession” as follows:
On can define “profession” narrowly, including only those careers – such as law or medicine – that require specific training and licensing. The definition used here is much broader. It encompasses any career in which the worker is awarded a degree of autonomy in return for services to the public that are performed at a high level. According to this definition, it is within the power if the individual worker to behave like a professional should she or he chooses to do so.
The phrases “services to the public” and “performed at a high level” are similar to the characteristics of a profession identified by Bayles. The definitions do not, however, fully agree; the definition used by the Good Works Project would include a number of occupations that lack Bayles’s necessary attributes.
Reflection Questions:
1. Would an occupation that had Bayles’s three required attributes plus the three additional attributes Bayles considers common to most professions necessarily be a profession according to the definition used by the Good Works Project? Explain.
2. Is the weather person on the local television station a professional according to either Bayles of the Good Works Projects? Explain.
A Moral Basis for Professions
Michael Davis, the philosopher and author whose definitions we used doesn’t try to nail down the particular attributes of a profession. Instead, he defines “profession” in terms of moral issues (3);
A profession is a number of individuals in the same occupation voluntary organized to earn a living by openly