3:30 - 5:00pm in Cocke Hall Gibson Room followed by a reception in the Seminar Room
January 21, 2019, is the general compliance date for changes recently made to the revised Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, better known as the Common Rule. These are perhaps the most substantial revisions to research ethics regulation in the past thirty years. Some high-profile changes include new definitions of “clinical trial,” “intervention,” “human subjects,” “identifiable private information,” and “research.” Metcalf & Crawford (2016) have argued that methods in data science call into question the Common Rule’s efficacy in protecting human subjects against potential research harms. They contend that a new theory of the “data subject” is needed to apply human-subjects research ethics to data science. While this might be correct, Skorburg will argue that a more nuanced account of what counts as 'research' in data science is also needed.
Joshua August Skorburg is a Postdoctoral Associate in Philosophy at Duke University with appointments in the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Social Science Research Institute. He completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Oregon in 2017. His research is in applied ethics - including data ethics, bioethics, and neuroethics - and empirical moral psychology.
Sponsored by the Human & Machine Intelligence research group.
Date:
Friday, November 2, 2018