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.
| ISBN: | 9781538155066 |
| Publication date: | 20th April 2023 |
| Author: | Michael Davis |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 324 pages |
| Genres: |
Science: general issues Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments Ethics and moral philosophy Impact of science and technology on society |
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.
Engineering as a Global Profession features in the following genres: Science: general issues, Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments, Ethics and moral philosophy, Impact of science and technology on society
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Engineering as a Global Profession was written by Michael Davis and published by Rowman & Littlefield an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Engineering as a Global Profession has 324 pages
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