Fundamentals of ethics for scientists and engineers / Edmund G. Seebauer, Robert L. Barry.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: xvi, 269 pages. ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 0195134885
- 174.95 21 S.E.F
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unit I. Foundational Principles --
1. Approaching the Subject of Ehtics --
1. An example --
2. The importance of ethics in science and engineering --
3. Managing ethical discussion --
4. Philosophy, religion, and ethics --
5. The existence of right and wrong --
6. The subject of moral analysis --
7. The role of codes of ethics --
8. Real-life Case: Destruction of the Spaceship (Challenger) --
2. The Person and the Virtues --
1. Developing a model for the person --
2. Components of the psyche --
3. Limitations of the model --
4. Habits and morals --
5. The four main virtues --
6. An example --
7. A Real-life Case --
3. Analyzing Exterior Acts: Some First Steps --
1. Ethics as a craft --
2. Disinguishing exterior and interior morality --
3. Beginning case analysis --
4. Event trees --
5. A Real-life Case: Dow Corning Corp. and Breast Implant --
4. Analyzing Exterior Acts: Some First Steps --
1. Describing intention --
2. The importance of intention --
3. Effort and virtues --
4. The role of benevolence --
5. A Real-life Case: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment --
6. Summary of Unit 1 --
7. Some Words of Caution --
Unit 2. Resolving Ethical Conflicts --
5. Toward a Hierarchy of Moral Values --
1. On selecting principles and methods --
2. Hierarchies of values: moral and nonmoral --
3. Linedrawing --
4. Mathematical analogies --
5. Ranking the virtues --
6. A Real-life Case: Scientific Tests using Animals --
6. Starting Moral Judgments: Evaluating Exterior Acts --
1. A mathematical analogy --
2. An example --
3. A Real-life Case: Chemical Disaster at Bhopal --
7. Completing Moral Judgments: the Decisive Role of Intention --
1. Evaluating interior goodness --
2. An example --
3. Balancing interior and exterior goodness --
4. The "Solomon problem" --
5. Cooperating in the evil of others --
6. A Real-lfe Case: The Problem of Performance Evaluation --
Grade Inflation --
8. Moral Responsibility --
1. Factors limiting moral responsibility --
2. Degrees of responsibility --
3. An example --
4. The "sainthood" and "devil" problems --
5. A Real-life Case: Responsibility in Software Engineering --
6. Summary of Unit 2 --
7. Some words of caution --
Unit 3. Justice: Applications --
9. Truth: Person-to-Person --
1. Truth in actions --
2. Truth in words --
3. Harm from deception --
4. Harm from withholding truth --
5. Whistleblowing --
6. Harm from spreading truth --
7. Privacy --
8. A Real-lfe Case: Censorship of the Internet --
10. Truth: Social --
1. Distinctions between science and engineering --
2. Approach to knowledge in science --
3. Recognition from scientific publication --
4. Black and gray in scientific practice --
5. Approach to knowledge in technology --
6. Intellectual property --
7. A Real-lfe Case: Copying Music Illegally using Internet --
11. Fairness: Person-to-Person --
1. Finding the fairest solution --
2. Conflict of internet --
3. Qualitative vs. quantitative fairness --
4. Credit or blame in team projects --
5. Authorship questions --
6. Fairness in supervising --
7. Fairness in contracting with clients --
8. A Real-life Case: Problems with Peer Review --
1. Intellectual property and the society --
2. Environmental issues --
3. Experts and paternalism --
4. Social aspects of employment --
5. A Real-life Case: Environmental Cleanup --
Problems with the Superfund --
6. Summary of Unit 3 --
7. Some words of caution --
Unit 4. Advanced Topics --
13. Resource Allocation --
1. What is resource allocation? --
2. Allocation by merit --
3. Allocation by social worth --
4. Allocation by need --
5. Allocation by ability to pay --
6. Allocation by equal or random assignment --
7. Allocation by similarity --
8. How to decide among methods --
9. A Real-life Case: Ethical Issues in Affirmative Action --
14. Risk --
1. A historical perspective --
2. Defining safety and risk --
3. Evaluating risk --
4. Making decisions about risk --
5. Some general guidelines --
6. A Real-life Case: Experimental Drug Testing in Humans --
15. Dealing with Differing Ethical Systems --
1. Differing anthropologies --
2. Differing principles and methods --
3. Monism and relativism --
4. Postmodernism --
5. True pluralism --
6. Conclusion --
7. A Real-life Case: Geological Experiments in Sacred Mountains --
16. Habit and Intuition --
1. Rationalist approaches to moral action --
2. Advantages of rationalist approaches --
3. Problems with rationalist approaches --
4. Toward a more comprehensive approach to moral behavior --
5. A Real-life Case --
6. Summary of Unit 4 --
7. Some words of caution.
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