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.
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"This welcome and timely book makes the case that engineers have special professional obligations to protect and enhance the environment; the authors aim to provide an ethical basis for discharging these obligations. The book certainly makes a good start on that important project." Engineering Science & Education Journal
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More than any other profession, the work of engineers directly involves and affects the environment. This book considers the professional obligations of engineers to protect the environment and seeks to provide an ethical basis for these obligations. The text opens with a series of case studies in which engineers face complex 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.
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contextualist ethic, comprehensive environmental ethic, modern pantheism, ethical engineer, eighth canon, intergenerational reciprocity, engineering codes, existential pleasures, case for animal rights, environmental ethics, ecological feminism, classical ethics, supplemental readings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Corps of Engineers, New Zealand, Mineral King, American Society of Civil Engineers, Hooker Chemical, Tom Regan, Oxford University Press, Aldo Leopold, Christopher Stone, Replenish the Earth, Thomas Aquinas, Albert Schweitzer, Chapel Hill, Immanuel Kant, John Ladd, North Carolina State University, Samuel Florman, Colonel Johnstone, Environmental Philosophy, Everett Jordan Dam, John Rawls, Oxy Chem, Paul Taylor New!
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contextualist ethic, comprehensive environmental ethic, modern pantheism, ethical engineer, eighth canon, intergenerational reciprocity, engineering codes, existential pleasures, case for animal rights, environmental ethics, ecological feminism, classical ethics, supplemental readings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Corps of Engineers, New Zealand, Mineral King, American Society of Civil Engineers, Hooker Chemical, Tom Regan, Oxford University Press, Aldo Leopold, Christopher Stone, Replenish the Earth, Thomas Aquinas, Albert Schweitzer, Chapel Hill, Immanuel Kant, John Ladd, North Carolina State University, Samuel Florman, Colonel Johnstone, Environmental Philosophy, Everett Jordan Dam, John Rawls, Oxy Chem, Paul Taylor New!
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- The Case for Animal Rights: Updated with a New Preface by Tom Regan on 6 pages
- Ecological Feminism (Environmental Philosophies) by Karen J. Warren on 5 pages
- Replenish the Earth: History of Organized Religion's Treatment of Animals and the Environment by LEWIS R. REGENSTEIN on 5 pages
- Should Trees Have Standing? And Other Essays on Law, Morals and the Environment by Christopher D. Stone on 5 pages
- The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (Thomas Dunne Book) by Samuel C. Florman on page 27, page 47, and page 163
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- Ethics in Engineering by Mike W. Martin on page 239, and page 240
- Socially Responsible Engineering: Justice in Risk Management by Daniel A. Vallero on page 286, and page 321
- Design and Simulation of Thermal Systems by N. V. Suryanarayana on page 36
- Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America by Giles Slade in Back Matter
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