Responsible engineering: The importance of character and imagination [Book Review]

Science and Engineering Ethics 7 (3):391-402 (2001)
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Engineering Ethics literature tends to emphasize wrongdoing, its avoidance, or its prevention. It also tends to focus on identifiable events, especially those that involve unfortunate, sometimes disastrous consequences. This paper shifts attention to the positive in engineering practice; and, as a result, the need for addressing questions of character and imagination becomes apparent.

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Meaningful work: rethinking professional ethics.Mike W. Martin - 2000 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Professional virtue and self-regulation.William F. May - 1988 - In Joan C. Callahan, Ethical issues in professional life. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 408--11.
Contract or covenant.W. F. May - 1988 - In Joan C. Callahan, Ethical issues in professional life. New York: Oxford University Press.

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