Ethics, Technology, and Engineering
An Introduction
1. Auflage April 2011
376 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics,
Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic
approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues
that are increasingly inherent in engineering practice.
* Utilizes a systematic approach to ethical case analysis -- the
ethical cycle -- which features a wide range of real-life
international case studies including the Challenger Space Shuttle,
the Herald of Free Enterprise and biofuels.
* Covers a broad range of topics, including ethics in design,
risks, responsibility, sustainability, and emerging
technologies
* Can be used in conjunction with the online ethics tool Agora
(href="http://www.ethicsandtechnology.com/">http://www.ethicsandtechnology.com)
* Provides engineering students with a clear introduction to the
main ethical theories
* Includes an extensive glossary with key terms
Introduction
1. The Responsibilities of Engineers
2. Codes of Conduct
3. Normative Ethics
4. Normative Argumentation
5. The Ethical Cycle
6. Ethical Questions in the Design of Technology
7. Designing Morality
8. Ethical Aspects of Technical Risks
9. The Distribution of Responsibility in Engineering
10. Sustainability, Ethics, and Technology
Appendix I: Engineering Qualifications and Organizations in a
Number of Countries
Appendix II: NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers
Appendix III: FEANI Position Paper on Code of Conduct: Ethics
and Conduct of Professional Engineers
Appendix IV: Shell Code of Conduct
Appendix V: DSM Values and Whistle Blowing Policy
Glossary
References
Index of Cases
Index
genuine contribution to an already substantial literature on ethics
in the techno-lifeworld. Arising from within a world where humans
live more intensely integrated with and thoughtfully reliant on
technology than anywhere else on the planet, this volume
constitutes a new realization of historico-philosophical
promise."
--Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines
"Ethics, Technology, and Engineering takes undergraduate
education in engineering ethics to a new level. It shows why
engineers need to reflect seriously on ethics, and provides them
with the tools they need to do so. This is exactly what we need to
teach ethics to engineers."
--Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of
Technology, Sweden
"Van de Poel and Royakkers have written a most comprehensive,
up-to-date, and readable text. Their discussion of the different
grounds for, and ways of framing, moral problems likely to be
encountered in engineering covers all the bases; their illustrative
cases, drawn in the main from contemporary practice, are treated
circumspectly and will no doubt provoke the kind of open discussion
of engineering decision-making they intend. It is the best
treatment of this subject geared toward the undergraduate I have
encountered."
--Louis L. Bucciarelli, MIT
Technology at Delft University of Technology. He is an associate
editor of the Handbook of Philosophy of Technology and the
Engineering Sciences (2009) and co-editor of Philosophy and
Engineering (2010).
Lambèr Royakkers is Associate Professor in Ethics of
Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology, and Associate
Professor in Military Ethics at Netherlands Defense Academy. He is
also Project Leader of the research programme Moral Fitness of
Military Personnel in a Networked Environment, sponsored by the
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.