Engineering, ethics, and the environment / P. Aarne Vesilind and Alastair S. Gunn.
By: Vesilind, P. Aarne.
Contributor(s): Gunn, Alastair S.
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: xvi, 314 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0521581125 (hbk); 0521589185 (pbk).Other title: Ethics and the environment [Spine title].Subject(s): Engineering ethics | Environmental ethicsDDC classification: 179.1Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 179.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00078541 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book makes the case that engineers have special professional obligations to protect and enhance the environment, and the authors--one an engineer and the other a philospher-- seek to provide an ethical basis for these obligations. In exploring these ethical issues, the authors aim to show that engineers make a difference. The text opens with a series of case studies in which engineers face complex and challenging decisions about the environment. Succeeding chapters examine different ideas about environmental ethics for engineers, including professional codes and both modern and historical discussions of environmental responsibility. The book concludes with a collection of readings that complement the text. Students, as well as practicing engineers, will find much of interest in this well-argued and thought-provoking book.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part I -- The problem of environmental ethics in engineering -- Engineering as a people-serving profession -- The search for environmental ethics in professional -- The search for environmental ethics by applying -- The search for environmental ethics by extending the moral community -- The search for environmental ethics in spirituality -- Incorporating environmental ethics into engineering -- Part II -- Supplemental readings for chapter 1 -- Supplemental readings for chapter 2 -- Supplementary readings for chapter 3 -- Supplemental readings for chapter 4 -- Supplemental readings for chapter 5 -- Supplemental readings for chapter 6.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Part I
- 1 The problem of environmental ethics in engineering
- 2 Engineering as a people-serving profession
- 3 The search for environmental ethics in professional codes of ethics
- 4 The seach for environmental ethics by applying classical ethical theories
- 5 The search for environmental ethics by extending the moral community
- 6 The search for environmental ethics by appealing to spirituality
- 7 Incorporating environmental ethics into engineering
- Part II
- 8 Supplemental readings