Thinking Like an Engineer : Studies in the Ethics of a Profession
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Practical and Professional Ethics
ISBN-10
0195120515
ISBN-13
9780195120516
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 30th, 1998
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
540 grams
Dimensions
23.20 x 16.00 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Ethics & moral philosophyTechnology: general issues
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Thinking Like an Engineer is both a work in engineering ethics and an attempt to understand engineering as a profession. Featuring in-depth studies of central questions of engineering ethics, it also includes a brief reconstruction of the history of engineering and an extensive review and criticism of relevant work in the social sciences.
Michael Davis, a leading figure in the study of professional ethics, offers here both a compelling exploration of engineering ethics and a philosophical analysis of engineering as a profession. After putting engineering in historical perspective, Davis turns to the Challenger space shuttle disaster to consider the complex relationship between engineering ideals and contemporary engineering practice. Here, Davis examines how social organization and technical requirements define how engineers should (and presumably do) think. Later chapters test his analysis of engineering judgement and autonomy empirically, engaging a range of social science research including a study of how engineers and managers work together in ten different companies.
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