Engineering Ethics: Outline of an Aspirational Approach - Brossura

Bowen, William Richard Richard

 
9781849968287: Engineering Ethics: Outline of an Aspirational Approach
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ISBN 10: 1849968284 ISBN 13: 9781849968287
Casa editrice: Springer, 2010

Sinossi

This book gives engineers an overall ethical direction with direct practical outcomes. It focuses on military engineering and water provision in developing countries but touches other topics such as engineering ethics relative to medical and business ethics.

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Informazioni sull?autore

The author is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. He holds chairs in the Schools of Engineering at the University of Wales Swansea and the University of Surrey. He has carried out extensive consultancy for industry, government departments, research councils and universities on an international basis, currently through i-NewtonWales.

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Engineering has made an enormous contribution to providing the material well-being that promotes human flourishing. It can also be the cause of immense human suffering. The ethics of engineering is relatively unexplored compared to other professions such as medicine and business, but interest is undergoing a revival.

Engineering Ethics: Outline of an Aspirational Approach aims to provide engineers with an inspiring view of the overall ethical direction of their profession in a way that has direct practical outcomes for their work practices. Key features of this original text include:

  • Concern with the overall ethical direction of engineering rather than simply specific moral quandaries.
  • The use of two key exemplars as a focus for the ethical issues: military engineering and water provision in developing countries.
  • The relation of engineering ethics to medical ethics and business ethics.
  • The development of an original and imaginative ethical analysis, providing a challenge to currently prevailing views.
  • An original analysis that leads to specific suggestions for changes in engineering education, engineering institutions, industry practices and the public positioning of engineering, as well as suggesting an aspirational role for engineering in international political initiatives.

Engineering Ethics: Outline of an Aspirational Approach will provoke debate among engineers, philosophers and the educated public.

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Editore
Springer
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1849968284
ISBN 13 
9781849968287
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
120
Contatto del produttore
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9781848822238: Engineering Ethics: Outline of an Aspirational Approach

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1848822235 ISBN 13:  9781848822238
Casa editrice: Springer Verlag, 2008
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