What is included with this book?
Introduction | p. 3 |
A Beginning | p. 3 |
What is Engineering? | p. 4 |
What is Ethics? | p. 5 |
What is the Issue? | p. 6 |
Traditional Ethical Viewpoints | p. 8 |
Other Professions: Medicine and Business | p. 9 |
Outline of an Aspirational Engineering Ethics | p. 11 |
Practical Outcomes | p. 13 |
References | p. 13 |
What is the Issue? | p. 15 |
Introduction | p. 15 |
Military Technology | p. 16 |
"Just" War | p. 16 |
International Conventions and Treaties | p. 17 |
Cluster Munitions and Nuclear Weapons | p. 20 |
Water | p. 21 |
Engineering for the Promotion of Peace and Prosperity | p. 24 |
The Scale of Modern Engineering Activity | p. 26 |
References | p. 27 |
Traditional Ethical Viewpoints | p. 29 |
Introduction | p. 29 |
Consequentialism | p. 31 |
Contractualism | p. 33 |
Kantian Duty | p. 36 |
Virtue Ethics | p. 38 |
References | p. 41 |
Ethics in Medicine and Business | p. 43 |
Ethics in Medicine | p. 43 |
Philosophical Medical Ethics | p. 47 |
Ethics in Business | p. 50 |
Philosophical Business Ethics | p. 53 |
References | p. 57 |
Reflection | p. 59 |
On War | p. 59 |
On Hunger and Thirst | p. 62 |
Responsibility and Aspiration | p. 63 |
References | p. 65 |
Outline of an Aspirational Engineering Ethics | p. 69 |
Introduction | p. 69 |
The Priority of People | p. 71 |
Continuity and Coherence: the Practice of Engineering | p. 74 |
Continuity and Coherence: the Life of the Individual Engineer | p. 78 |
I, I-Thou and I-You: Self Care, Proximate Care, and Care Beyond Proximity | p. 80 |
References | p. 85 |
Practical Outcomes | p. 87 |
Overview of Analysis | p. 87 |
Engineering Education | p. 90 |
Engineering Institutions | p. 93 |
Industry and Work Practices | p. 96 |
Positioning Engineering in the Public and Intellectual Mainstreams | p. 98 |
An Aspirational Role for Engineering in International Political Initiatives | p. 101 |
An Aspirational Engineering Ethical Ethos Across Cultures | p. 104 |
Final Suggestions | p. 106 |
References | p. 107 |
Index | p. 109 |
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