Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- INTRODUCTION TO ETHICAL CONCEPTS
- 1 ETHICS AS DESIGN: DOING JUSTICE TO ETHICAL PROBLEMS
- 2 THE BASIS AND SCOPE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
- 3 CENTRAL PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF ENGINEERS
- 4 TWO MODELS OF PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR: ROGER BOISJOLY AND THE CHALLENGER, WILLIAM LEMESSURIER'S FIFTY-NINE STORY CRISIS
- 5 WORKPLACE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- 6 RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESEARCH INTEGRITY
- 7 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF INVESTIGATORS FOR EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS
- 8 RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
- 9 FAIR CREDIT IN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION
- 10 CREDIT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN ENGINEERING PRACTICE
- EPILOG: MAKING A LIFE IN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
- Bibliography and References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- INTRODUCTION TO ETHICAL CONCEPTS
- 1 ETHICS AS DESIGN: DOING JUSTICE TO ETHICAL PROBLEMS
- 2 THE BASIS AND SCOPE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
- 3 CENTRAL PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF ENGINEERS
- 4 TWO MODELS OF PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR: ROGER BOISJOLY AND THE CHALLENGER, WILLIAM LEMESSURIER'S FIFTY-NINE STORY CRISIS
- 5 WORKPLACE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- 6 RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESEARCH INTEGRITY
- 7 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF INVESTIGATORS FOR EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS
- 8 RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
- 9 FAIR CREDIT IN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION
- 10 CREDIT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN ENGINEERING PRACTICE
- EPILOG: MAKING A LIFE IN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
- Bibliography and References
- Index
Summary
Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research is about professional responsibilities of engineers and applied scientists. It is about professional responsibilities: the character of problem situations in which those responsibilities must be fulfilled and the moral skills for fulfilling them. Interspersed throughout the text are open-ended scenarios that present ethically significant situations of the sort engineers and applied scientists commonly encounter. These have been set apart in centered boxes to aid the use of them in group discussion and for homework assignments. Also set apart from the text, in boxes, are fine points, which may enhance the reader's understanding but which are not essential to the main argument. Most of these fine points concern philosophical issues.
OUTLINE AND SUMMARY
The introduction on concepts provides a clarification of many general ethical terms and provides a general framework for considering ethical questions. This framework draws on readers' prior experience of moral life and of moral reflection. Other more specialized ethical concepts are introduced as needed throughout the book.
Chapter 1 discusses what moral problems look like to a person in the situation who must respond to them. The frequent need to cope with an ambiguous situation and to formulate responses to the problem situation shows that addressing ethically significant problems is more demanding than simply evaluating the relative merits of preestablished responses. In many respects challenging ethical problems resembles challenging design problems.
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- Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research , pp. xiii - xviiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998