Engineer A Cooperation Duty
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/15#Engineer_A_Cooperation_Duty
Definition
Engineer A was ethically required to participate fully and cooperatively in Engineer B's peer review of the second tower plans, given the known design defects discovered in the first tower and the resulting public safety risk.
Properties
Instance of
CooperativePeerReviewObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CooperativePeerReviewObligation
Applied to
Peer review of second tower plans by Engineer B
Balancing with
Professional Integrity
Public Safety Paramount
Concrete expression
Engineer A was ethically required to participate fully and cooperatively in Engineer B's peer review of the second tower plans, given the known design defects discovered in the first tower and the resulting public safety risk.
Confidence
0.91
Interpretation
The obligation to cooperate with peer review intensifies when the engineer under review has known errors in related work, because the combination of accountability, client duty, and public safety paramountcy all converge on the same required conduct.
Tension resolution
No competing principle justified Engineer A's refusal to cooperate; the board found that refusal would be unethical given the convergence of multiple professional obligations all pointing toward cooperation.
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineers must take responsibility for their actions, must acknowledge their errors, must act in the best interests of their clients, and must at all times hold paramount the health, welfare, and safety of the public.
The Board concludes that it would be unethical for Engineer A to fail to cooperate.
The known design defects in the first tower simply makes each of those requirements more urgent.
Source text
The Board concludes that it would be unethical for Engineer A to fail to cooperate.
TTL
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case15:Engineer_A_Cooperation_Duty a proeth:CooperativePeerReviewObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Cooperation Duty" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case15:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Peer review of second tower plans by Engineer B" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Professional Integrity",
"Public Safety Paramount" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A was ethically required to participate fully and cooperatively in Engineer B's peer review of the second tower plans, given the known design defects discovered in the first tower and the resulting public safety risk." ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:interpretation "The obligation to cooperate with peer review intensifies when the engineer under review has known errors in related work, because the combination of accountability, client duty, and public safety paramountcy all converge on the same required conduct." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Design Engineer" ;
proeth:principleClass "Cooperative Peer Review Obligation" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "No competing principle justified Engineer A's refusal to cooperate; the board found that refusal would be unethical given the convergence of multiple professional obligations all pointing toward cooperation." ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineers must take responsibility for their actions, must acknowledge their errors, must act in the best interests of their clients, and must at all times hold paramount the health, welfare, and safety of the public.",
"The Board concludes that it would be unethical for Engineer A to fail to cooperate.",
"The known design defects in the first tower simply makes each of those requirements more urgent." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 15 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
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proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 15 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "The Board concludes that it would be unethical for Engineer A to fail to cooperate." ;
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"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A was ethically required to participate fully and cooperatively in Engineer B's peer review of the second tower plans, given the known design defects discovered in the first tower and the resulting public safety risk." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A was ethically required to participate fully and cooperatively in Engineer B's peer review of the second tower plans, given the known design defects discovered in the first tower and the resulting public safety risk." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-02T19:58:41.183712+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 15 Extraction",
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prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 15 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
15
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-02T19:58:41.183712+00:00
First case
15
Generated
2026-06-02T19:58:41.183712+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 15 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 15 Extraction