Ibo van de Poel, Lamber Royakkers

Ethics, Technology, and Engineering

An Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There are many tough ethical questions at the crossroads of engineering and technology -- ones that are raised on a surprisingly regular basis. For instance, who is responsible for the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion? Do new information systems endanger our privacy? Should new energy technologies be sustainable? Engineers have to deal with such consequential issues not just as private citizens but as highly trained professionals as well. Ethics, Technology, and Engineering teaches engineering students the relevant moral skills for dealing with ethical issues inherent in engineering practice. Featuring a unique systematic approach to dealing with ethical problems known as the 'ethical cycle, ' the book utilizes an abundance of real-life case studies from the U.S., Europe, and across the world to shed important light on the ethical issues that arise in the daily practice of engineers. Topics include ethical issues that arise in engineering design, hazards and risks of technology, organizational settings, sustainability, and others. Also considered are some of the more 'macro-ethical' issues such as atomic power and nanotechnology. Ethics, Technology, and Engineering provides a wealth of enlightening insights into the consideration of ethical issues related to the interplay of engineering with our increasingly technological global society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 168mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781444330946
• ISBN-10: 1444330942
• Artikelnr.: 54587529

Autorenporträt

Ibo van de Poel is Associate Professor in Ethics and 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments

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 aNumber of Countries

Appendix II: NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers

Appendix III: FEANI Position Paper on Code of Conduct: Ethicsand Conduct of Professional Engineers

Appendix IV: Shell Code of Conduct

Appendix V: DSM Values and Whistle Blowing Policy

Glossary

References

Index of Cases

Index

Rezensionen

"Ethics, Technology, and Engineering: An Introduction is agenuine contribution to an already substantial literature on ethicsin the techno-lifeworld. Arising from within a world where humanslive more intensely integrated with and thoughtfully reliant ontechnology than anywhere else on the planet, this volumeconstitutes a new realization of historico-philosophicalpromise."
--Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines

"Ethics, Technology, and Engineering takes undergraduateeducation in engineering ethics to a new level. It shows whyengineers need to reflect seriously on ethics, and provides themwith the tools they need to do so. This is exactly what we need toteach ethics to engineers."
--Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute ofTechnology, Sweden

"Van de Poel and Royakkers have written a most comprehensive,up-to-date, and readable text. Their discussion of the differentgrounds for, and ways of framing, moral problems likely to beencountered in engineering covers all the bases; their illustrativecases, drawn in the main from contemporary practice, are treatedcircumspectly and will no doubt provoke the kind of open discussionof engineering decision-making they intend. It is the besttreatment of this subject geared toward the undergraduate I haveencountered."
--Louis L. Bucciarelli, MIT