Royakkers, L.M.M. (Lambčr)
Research profile
Lambčr Royakkers (1967) is an associate professor in the ethics of technology. He studied Philosophy and Social Sciences (Eindhoven 1991), Technical Mathematics (Eindhoven 1993), and Law (Tilburg 1999). He received his PhD at the Tilburg University in 1996. His dissertation was on the formalisation of normative rules with deontic logic. It has been revised rather thoroughly for the serie Law and Philosophy published by Kluwer Academic in 1998. His research interests include the conceptualization of (collective) responsibility and ethics of technology. He is project leader, together with dr. Ibo van de Poel and dr. Sjoerd Zwart of the research program ‘Moral Responsibility in R&D Networks’, sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Since 2007 he is also associate professor Military Ethics (0,5 fte) at the Netherlands Defence Academy, and since then his research attention has shifted to military ethics and technology. Central in this research are the questions about the role of technology in military operations in the 21st century. He also is project leader of the research program ‘Moral fitness of military personnel in a networked operational environment’, sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. The main contribution in his research is to deal with the ethical and legal dilemmas/problems which have been leveraging by modern military technology.
Courses that he teaches include Ethics and Law, Logic, Ethics and (Military) Technology. With Ibo van de Poel, he is finishing the textbook Ethics, Engineering and Technology which will be published by Blackwell in 2011.
3TU.Ethics Projects
Moral fitness of military personnel in a networked operational environment
Moral responsibility in R&D networks
Scientific publications (selection)
T. de Lima, L.M.M. Royakkers, and F. Dignum. 2009. "Behaving Responsible in Multi-Agent Worlds (Extended Abstract)." In K. Decker et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), May 10–15, 2009, Budapest, Hungary. pp. 1139–1140.available online
T. de Lima, L.M.M. Royakkers, and F. Dignum. 2008. "Towards a Formalization of Responsibility." In G. Boella et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Normative Multiagent Systems NorMAS 2008, Luxembourg, July 15–16, 2008. pp. 66–79.
van de Poel, Ibo, and Lamber Royakkers. 2007. The Ethical Cycle. Journal of Business Ethics 71 (1):1-13.available online
Grossi, D., L.M.M. Royakkers, and F. Dignum. 2007. Organizational Structure and Responsibility. An Analysis in a Dynamic Logic of Organizational Collective Agency. Artificial Intelligence and Law, 223-249.
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Royakkers, L.M.M., and B. van Klink. 2007. Equality in Utilitarian Reasoning. Or: How Useful Is the Pragma-Dialectical Approach as an Analytical and Critical Tool? Paper read at Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on the International Cociety for the Study of Argumentation, at Amsterdam.
Grossi, D., L.M.M. Royakkers, M. Dignum, and M. Dastani. 2007. Structuaral Evaluation of Agent Organizations. In Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II (Lecture Notes in COmputer Science 4386), edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann. Heidelberg: Springer.available online
Dorst, C.H., and L.M.M. Royakkers. 2006. The Design Analogy: A Model for Moral Problem Solving. Design Studies, 633-656.available online
Grossi, D., F.P.M. Dignum, V. Dignum, M. Dastani, and L.M.M. Royakkers. 2006. Structural Aspects of the Evaluation of Agent Organization. Paper read at Pre-proceedings of COIN@ECAI'06, at Trento.available online
Grossi, D., L.M.M. Royakkers, F.P.M. Dignum, V. Dignum, and M. Dastani. 2006. Structural Evaluation of Agent Organizations. Paper read at Proceedings of AMMAS'06, at New York.available online
Hughes, J.L., and L.M.M. Royakkers. 2006. Don't Ever Do That! Long-Term Duties in Pdel. Paper read at Eight International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science Vol. 4048. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, at Berlin.available online
Royakkers, L.M.M., and C.H. Dorst. 2006. The Ethical Cycle and Judgment in Design. Paper read at Wonderground 2006, at Lisbon.
Royakkers, L.M.M., D. Grossi, and F.P.M. Dignum. 2006. Responsibilities in Organizations. Computer Supported Activity Coordination, 65-74.
Royakkers, L.M.M., and M.J. Verkerk. 2006. Formalization of Multi-Deminsional Responsibilty. Taylor Versus Socio-Technical Systems Design. Paper read at Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06), at Washington.
Grossi, D., L.M.M. Royakkers, F.P.M. Dignum, and M. Dastani. 2005. Foundations of Organizational Structure in Multi-Agent Systems. Paper read at Proceedings of AAMA'05, the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, at Washington.available online
van Klink, B., and L.M.M. Royakkers. 2005. Analogy and Legal Reasoning. In Methaphor, Cognition, and Culture, edited by Z. Maalej. Tunis: University of Manouba-Tunis.
Royakkers, L.M.M., D. Grossi, and F.P.M. Dignum. 2005. Responsibility in Organizations. In Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques, edited by J. Lehman, M. A. Biasiotti, E. Francesconi and M. T. Sagri. Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers.
Professional/Popular publications (selection)
van Klink, B.M.J., and L.M.M. Royakkers. 2007. Gelijkheid als Topos in Juridische Argumentatie. Over Mogelijkheden en Beperkingen van de Pragma-Dialectische Benadering. In Alles Afwegende, edited by E. T. Feteris and e.a. Nijmegen: Ars Aequi 2007.
Royakkers, L.M.M., and A.J.H.M. Pieters. 2006. Verantwoord Ondernemen. Baarn: HBuitgevers.available online
Royakkers, L., I. van de Poel en A. Pieters 2004. Ethiek & Techniek. Morele overwegingen in de ingenieurspraktijk. Baarn, HBuitgevers.available online
Teaching
0AA30 MGO 1c: ethics of technology and innovation
0AA60 MGO 2c: ethics of technology 2
0L132 Ethics and physics
0L800 Logic 1: fundamentals of logical analysis of social topics
0L810 Logic 2: social choice theory
0L811 Logic 2: social choice theory
0L870 Ethics and Law
1TC02 Technology Reflection
