Engineering Ethics, Social Theory and How We Might Do Better!

Conlon, Eddie

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-11601-8_11

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“…We draw on Conlon ( 2022 ) to suggest two ways that embedded ethics could help computer science and engineering students reconsider the foundations of their field: first, in order for the political dimension to be contextualized properly, it is necessary for ethics modules to be explicitly connected to a boarder curriculum that exposes the structural dimensions of social and political life (e.g. in ‘stand alone’ courses).…”

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What Do We Teach to Engineering Students: Embedded Ethics, Morality, and Politics

Ferdman,

Ratti

2024

Sci Eng Ethics

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In the past few years, calls for integrating ethics modules in engineering curricula have multiplied. Despite this positive trend, a number of issues with these ‘embedded’ programs remains. First, learning goals are underspecified. A second limitation is the conflation of different dimensions under the same banner, in particular confusion between ethics curricula geared towards addressing the ethics of individual conduct and curricula geared towards addressing ethics at the societal level. In this article, we propose a tripartite framework to overcome these difficulties. Our framework analytically decomposes an ethics module into three dimensions. First, there is the ethical dimension, which pertains to the learning goals. Second, there is the moral dimension, which addresses the moral relevance of engineers’ conduct. Finally, there is the political dimension, which scales up issues of moral relevance at the civic level. All in all, our framework has two advantages. First, it provides analytic clarity, i.e. it enables course instructors to locate ethical dilemmas in either the moral or political realm and to make use of the tools and resources from moral and/or political philosophy. Second, it depicts a comprehensive ethical training, which enables students to both reason about moral issues in the abstract, and to socially contextualize potential solutions.

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confidence: 99%