Information & Ethics committee  It would depend on the details, but it sounds like a conflict of interest and so would require recusal.

Information & Ethics committee  If we're talking about the inability to do due diligence because we're moving quickly, for example, then sure, we would want to be as careful as possible. For one thing, just practically, we want to say this is an important decision. We don't want something like committee hearing

Information & Ethics committee  It sounds like what you're describing is a course of action. One key thing about ethics is there is very seldom a point in time at which a decision is made and it's final. I receive some information and I make an initial judgment. Some more information is received. I get further

Information & Ethics committee  One of the standard ways to mitigate the effect of conflict of interest, if you can't make it go away, is to involve more people in the decision-making. If you're the only relevant expert in some field and you need to be part of this adjudicating committee, then, if we can't remo

Information & Ethics committee  That's a dangerous question to ask a philosopher, because I could go on at great length. The concept of conflict of interest basically has to do with the fact that in modern life we often have people making important decisions on our behalf or advising us on important decisions

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not sure I've ever heard it put that way. We were kind of talking about the gut reaction test, and certainly if you have that kind of gut reaction, that might be reason to pause. That's not necessarily reason to definitively remove yourself from an entire conversation, beca

Information & Ethics committee  Yes and no. To some extent, even if you don't have that intuition—

Information & Ethics committee  How about maybe? In part, your own reactions are important if you feel that there's something to worry about. If your own reaction is that there's nothing to worry about, then don't trust your own reactions. Really, at the end of the day, it's the reactions of external stakehold

Information & Ethics committee  If you're talking about a perceived conflict of interest, then presumably there's nothing to remove yourself from, so recusal doesn't make sense at that point. Some other form of verbal distancing may be helpful.

Information & Ethics committee  I assume that's for me. As I outlined in my presentation, again I'm differing from the act because while I think the act is certainly relevant to the operations of the committee, the act is slightly out of sync with the best scholarly work in this area. A conflict of interest i

Information & Ethics committee  I feel you may have been reading some of my work. This is actually a finding from a study I did with a couple of colleagues a few years back, but it's also common experience. Almost everybody knows that conflict of interest is a problem, but very few people can offer more than a

Information & Ethics committee  As an educator, my standard answer is going to be that there's never enough training and education. What you want is to provide people with a rich enough range of educational experiences. Sometimes, yes, the school of hard knocks and learning on the job is part of that, but wha

Information & Ethics committee  It was, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure, yes. There's a valid distinction to be made, because in some cases the perception of conflict of interest is based on some observer's misunderstanding of the facts of the case, and where that is true, then the solution is different. When it really is a mere perception, the

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to thank the members of the committee for this chance to speak to you today. My goal today is to provide a scholarly point of view. In what follows, I'll lay out the key elements of conflict of interest and the reasons that conflict of interest