TY - CHAP
T1 - Engineering Decisions in a Global Context and Social Choice
AU - Surgrue, Noreen M.
AU - McCarthy, Timothy G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Many of the ideas for this paper arose from research funded by The Hewlett Foundation, The Sloan Foundation, The National Institutes of Health, and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We would like to thank Paolo Gardoni, Colleen Murphy, and Dana Beth Weinberg for their comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In this paper we specifically tackle the methodological problem of constructing an ethical framework for how professionals are to work within the global setting, and while this is an issue for a number of disciplines and professions including medicine, computer science, and education, for purposes of this paper we turn our attention to engineering. Specifically, we examine engineering in a global context and offer an analysis of how conflicts between normative constraints, imposed from several points of view, on engineering solutions are to be resolved.
AB - In this paper we specifically tackle the methodological problem of constructing an ethical framework for how professionals are to work within the global setting, and while this is an issue for a number of disciplines and professions including medicine, computer science, and education, for purposes of this paper we turn our attention to engineering. Specifically, we examine engineering in a global context and offer an analysis of how conflicts between normative constraints, imposed from several points of view, on engineering solutions are to be resolved.
KW - Engineering ethics
KW - Normative constraints
KW - Philosophy and Linguistics
KW - Rawls
KW - Receiving country
KW - Reflective equilibrium
KW - Sending country
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-18260-5_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-18260-5_6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85101595932
T3 - Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
SP - 79
EP - 90
BT - Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
PB - Springer
ER -