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It is not all straw, but it can catch fire: In defense of impossible ideals in computing

Science and Engineering Ethics 14 (2):241-244 (2008)

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Thinking like an engineer: studies in the ethics of a profession.Michael Davis - 1998 - New York: Oxford University Press.details Michael Davis, a leading figure in the study of professional ethics, offers here both a compelling exploration of engineering ethics and a philosophical analysis of engineering as a profession. After putting engineering in historical perspective, Davis turns to the Challenger space shuttle disaster to consider the complex relationship between engineering ideals and contemporary engineering practice. Here, Davis examines how social organization and technical requirements define how engineers should (and presumably do) think. Later chapters test his analysis of engineering judgement and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 56 citations
Philosophy and the human sciences.Charles Taylor - 1985 - New York: Cambridge University Press.details Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unusually wide range of theoretical interests and draws creatively on both Anglo-American and Continental traditions in philosophy. A selection of his published papers is presented here in two volumes, structured to indicate the direction and essential unity of the work. He starts from a polemical concern with behaviourism and other reductionist theories (particularly in psychology and the philosophy of language) which (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 224 citations
A critique of positive responsibility in computing.James A. Stieb - 2008 - Science and Engineering Ethics 14 (2):219-233.details It has been claimed that (1) computer professionals should be held responsible for an undisclosed list of “undesirable events” associated with their work and (2) most if not all computer disasters can be avoided by truly understanding responsibility. Programmers, software developers, and other computer professionals should be defended against such vague, counterproductive, and impossible ideals because these imply the mandatory satisfaction of social needs and the equation of ethics with a kind of altruism. The concept of social needs is debatable (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 9 citations
Response to "ordinary reasonable care is not the minimum for engineers" (m. davis).Michael S. Pritchard - 2001 - Science and Engineering Ethics 7 (2):291-297.details Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Response to "ordinary reasonable care is not the minimum for engineers" (M. Davis).Professor Michael S. Pritchard - 2001 - Science and Engineering Ethics 7 (2):291-297.details Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Reinhold Niebuhr's Paradox: Groundwork for Social Responsibility.Daniel James Malotky - 2003 - Journal of Religious Ethics 31 (1):121-123.details This paper is an examination of Reinhold Niebuhr's embrace of the paradoxical in relation to his conception of the self. While it explores the theoretical and practical difficulties entailed in Niebuhr's account, it also seeks to defend his position, suggesting that in the light of Niebuhr's negative apologetic, the paradoxical self represents the only intelligible means of self-understanding available. Though Niebuhr never develops this epistemological ground, it may provide a way of avoiding the moral consequentialism to which Niebuhr appears to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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