TY - BOOK AU - Seebauer,Edmund Gerard AU - Barry,Robert Laurence TI - Fundamentals of ethics for scientists and engineers SN - 0195134885 U1 - 174.95 21 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Science KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Technology N1 - 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 UR - http://repository.fue.edu.eg/xmlui/handle/123456789/3348 ER -