Engineering as a Global Profession

Technical and Ethical Standards

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Michael Davis

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While this book begins with the analysis of engineering as a profession, it concentrates on a question that the last two decades seem to have made critical: Is engineering one global profession (like medicine) or many national or regional professions (like law)? While science and technology studies (STS) have increasingly taken an “empirical turn”, much of STS research is unclear enough about the professional responsibility of engineers that STS still tends to avoid the subject, leaving engineering ethics without the empirical research needed to teach it as a global profession. The philosophy of technology has tended to do the same. This book’s intervention is to improve the way STS, as well as the philosophy of technology, approaches the study of engineering. This is work in the philosophy of engineering and the attempt to understand engineering as a reasonable undertaking.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-09-21
Mått160 x 228 x 24 mm
Vikt630 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor324
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538155042

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PrefacePart I: Distinguishing Engineering from other Professions1.Profession2.Engineering—From Chicago to Shantou 3.Why Architects Are Not Engineers4.Distinguishing Chemists from Engineers5.Will Software Engineers ever be Engineers? 6.Engineering and Business Management: The Odd CouplePart II: The Study of Engineering as a Profession7.Methodological Problems in the Study of Engineering8.Profession as a Lens for Studying TechnologyPart III: Professional Responsibility of Engineers9.“Ain’t No One Here But Us Social Forces”10.Engineering Ethics, Individuals, and Organizations 11.“Social Responsibility” of Engineers12.Macro-, Micro-, and Meso-Ethics 13.Doing the Minimum14.Re-inventing the Wheel: “Global Engineering Ethics”15.In Praise of Emotion in EngineeringPart IV: Engineering’s Globalism16.The Whistle Not Blown: WV, Diesels, and Engineers 17.Three Nuclear Disasters and a Hurricane: Reflections18.Ethical Issues in the Global Arms Industry19.Temporal Limits

One practical benefit of philosophy is that it can clarify thought. Davis has spent his career clarifying thoughts about engineering—his own as well as those of others. In this volume, he offers a book-length exploration of what engineering is, what professions are, and why philosophers, engineers, and the public should care about such ideas…. Not an engineering ethics textbook as such, the work nevertheless keeps ethics in the foreground, examining engineering in various contexts, ranging from how engineering ethics is taught to whether software engineering will ever become engineering. Davis disagrees with many commonplace clichés about engineering, yet his statements of disagreement are always illuminating and provide food for deeper thought. Philosophers and thoughtful engineers will find much to ponder in this book. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.