Ethical Theories and Teaching Engineering Ethics

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Author(s): Michael S. Pritchard (Western Michigan University, USA)and Elaine E. Englehardt (Utah Valley University, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 10
Source title: Leadership and Personnel Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9624-2.ch084

Keywords: Administration & Leadership / Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Management Science

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As an area of academic study, engineering ethics focuses primarily on practical ethical issues. A primary aim of the study of practical ethics is to help students make good ethical decisions in whatever practical endeavors they may undertake, including in their chosen careers. The authors argue that reflection on the sorts of ethical problems that arise in engineering practice should be the starting point, with ethical theory coming into view primarily in this context. This is in contrast to a more “top-down” approach that tries to “apply” theory to practice only after laying out a spectrum of philosophically grounded theories, each of which attempts to give us a comprehensive picture of ethics, as such.

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