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Dummett, Analytic and Synthetic Deductions
In the first part of this paper I contend that Michael Dummett’s works contain a distinction between analytic and synthetic (logical) deductions....
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Joining forces: the need to combine science and ethics to address problems of validity and translation in neuropsychiatry research using animal models
BackgroundCurrent policies regulating the use of animals for scientific purposes are based on balancing between potential gain of knowledge and...
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Putting the ‘Experiment’ back into the ‘Thought Experiment’
Philosophers have debated at length the epistemological status of scientific thought experiments. I contend that the literature on this topic still...
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Ethics review of big data research: What should stay and what should be reformed?
BackgroundEthics review is the process of assessing the ethics of research involving humans. The Ethics Review Committee (ERC) is the key oversight...
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Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia
BackgroundResearchers must adhere to ethical and scientific standards in their research involving human subjects; therefore, their knowledge of human...
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Losing the Data of the Dead and Expanding Existing Models of Bereavement
In our digital society, the dead seem closer—because, for many, the dead are easily and immediately accessible through our ubiquitous everyday smart...
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Validating Cultural Models with Cultural Consensus Theory
This chapter links the discovery process of creating a descriptive model with a verification process. Descriptive “models” distilled from qualitative...
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Research Ethics in Data
Ninety percent of the data created in the entire history of humanity has been created in the last 2 years (2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated...
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Counting the dead and making the dead count: configuring data and accountability
This article examines the relation between counting, counts and accountability. It does so by comparing the responses of the British government to...
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Arche-writing and data-production in theory-oriented scientific practice: the case of free-viewing as experimental system to test the temporal correlation hypothesis
Data production in experimental sciences depends on localised experimental systems, but the epistemic properties of data transcend the contingencies...
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Health data research on sudden cardiac arrest: perspectives of survivors and their next-of-kin
BackgroundConsent for data research in acute and critical care is complex as patients become at least temporarily incapacitated or die. Existing...
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Communication and Social Evolution
The conclusion of the former part is that collective intentionality and the intersubjective perspective are insufficient to ensure the norms that can...
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On the Experimental Foundation of Computing
This paper offers a review of Giuseppe Primero’s (2020) book “On the foundations of computing” . Mathematical, engineering, and experimental...
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From Coding To Curing. Functions, Implementations, and Correctness in Deep Learning
This paper sheds light on the shift that is taking place from the practice of ‘coding’, namely develo** programs as conventional in the software...
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Machine learning, misinformation, and citizen science
Current methods of operationalizing concepts of misinformation in machine learning are often problematic given idiosyncrasies in their success...
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Creating a Digital Marketplace for Agrobiodiversity and Plant Genetic Sequence Data: Legal and Ethical Considerations of an AI and Blockchain Based Solution
The EU regulation on ‘Organic Production and Labelling of Organic Products’ opens the door for the creation of an EU-wide marketplace for...
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\({\mathcal{C}}\) -Justifications for Logically Complex Sentences
In this chapter the notion of \({\mathcal{C}}\)...
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Medical ethics in childbirth: a structural equation modeling approach in south of Iran
BackgroundThe existence of a valid instrument to evaluate the attitude of mothers towards compliance with medical ethics during childbirth can lead...
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Knowledge and Perceptions of Honorary Authorship among Health Care Researchers: Online Cross-sectional Survey Data from the Middle East
One of the core problems of scientific research authorship is honorary authorship. It violates the ethical principle of clear and appropriate...
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A Micro-ethnographic Study of Big Data-Based Innovation in the Financial Services Sector: Governance, Ethics and Organisational Practices
Our study considers the governance, ethics and operational challenges associated with the acquisition, manipulation and commodification of ‘big data’...