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50Dao Ji Zhijian: Zhongguo Wenhua Beijing de Jishu Zhexue «道技之间: 中国文化背景的技术哲学»– By Wang QianJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (2): 317-320. 2011.
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45Ethics Within Engineering: An IntroductionInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 31 (3): 327-330. 2017.
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45Pragmatism as Post-postmodernismTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 13 (2): 172-174. 2009.
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42Ethics in engineeringMcGraw Hill. 2023.Technology has a pervasive and profound effect on the contemporary world, and engineers play a central role in all aspects of technological development. In order to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public, engineers must be morally committed and equipped to grapple with ethical dilemmas they confront.
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42Ethics Across the Curriculum—Pedagogical PerspectivesSpringer Verlag. 2018.Late in 1990, the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology (lIT) received a grant of more than $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to try a campus-wide approach to integrating professional ethics into its technical curriculum.! Enough has now been accomplished to draw some tentative conclusions. I am the grant's principal investigator. In this paper, I shall describe what we at lIT did, what we learned, and what others, especially phil…Read more
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35A Pragmatic Approach to Ethical Decision-Making in Engineering Practice: Characteristics, Evaluation Criteria, and Implications for Instruction and AssessmentScience and Engineering Ethics 23 (3): 663-679. 2017.This paper begins by reviewing dominant themes in current teaching of professional ethics in engineering education. In contrast to more traditional approaches that simulate ethical practice by using ethical theories to reason through micro-level ethical dilemmas, this paper proposes a pragmatic approach to ethics that places more emphasis on the practical plausibility of ethical decision-making. In addition to the quality of ethical justification, the value of a moral action also depends on its …Read more
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31The need for and nature of a normative, cultural psychology of weaponized AI (artificial intelligence)Ethics and Information Technology 25 (1): 1-6. 2023.The use of AI in weapons systems raises numerous ethical issues. To date, work on weaponized AI has tended to be theoretical and normative in nature, consisting in critical policy analyses and ethical considerations, carried out by philosophers, legal scholars, and political scientists. However, adequately addressing the cultural and social dimensions of technology requires insights and methods from empirical moral and cultural psychology. To do so, this position piece describes the motivations …Read more
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29Why Should Ethical Behaviors Be the Ultimate Goal of Engineering Ethics Education?Business and Professional Ethics Journal 42 (1): 33-53. 2023.Ethics is crucial to engineering, although disagreement exists concerning the form engineering ethics education should take. In part, this results from disagreements about the goal of this education, which inhibit the development of and progress in cohesive research agendas and practices. In this regard, engineering ethics faces challenges like other professional ethics. To address these issues, this paper argues that the ultimate goal of engineering ethics education should be more long-term eth…Read more
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29Engineering ethics education, ethical leadership, and Confucian ethicsInternational Journal of Ethics Education 3 (2): 169-179. 2018.Ethical leadership skills are crucial for professionally competent engineers working in a global context. This article explores the possibility of integrating a non-Western ethical tradition of Confucian ethics into the teaching of ethical leadership in engineering ethics. First comes a brief discussion of the historical origins of Confucianism and its persistence in contemporary Chinese culture. Second is a conceptualization of the major aspects of Confucian ethical leadership including moral p…Read more
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26Enhancing Engineering Ethics: Role Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityScience and Engineering Ethics 27 (3): 1-21. 2021.Engineering ethics calls the attention of engineers to professional codes of ethical responsibility and personal values, but the practice of ethics in corporate settings can be more complex than either of these. Corporations too have cultures that often include corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and policies, but few discussions of engineering ethics make any explicit reference to CSR. This article proposes critical attention to CSR and role ethics as an opportunity to help prepare …Read more
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24Connecting to the Heart: Teaching Value-Based Professional EthicsScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (4): 2235-2254. 2020.Engineering programs in the United States have been experimenting with diverse pedagogical approaches to educate future professional engineers. However, a crucial dimension of ethics education that focuses on the values, personal commitments, and meaning of engineers has been missing in many of these pedagogical approaches. We argue that a value-based approach to professional ethics education is critically needed in engineering education, because such an approach is indispensable for cultivating…Read more
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24Blame-Laden Moral Rebukes and the Morally Competent Robot: A Confucian Ethical PerspectiveScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (5): 2511-2526. 2020.Empirical studies have suggested that language-capable robots have the persuasive power to shape the shared moral norms based on how they respond to human norm violations. This persuasive power presents cause for concern, but also the opportunity to persuade humans to cultivate their own moral development. We argue that a truly socially integrated and morally competent robot must be willing to communicate its objection to humans’ proposed violations of shared norms by using strategies such as bl…Read more
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23Philosophy and Engineering: Exploring Boundaries, Expanding Connections (edited book)Springer. 2016.This volume, the result of an ongoing bridge building effort among engineers and humanists, addresses a variety of philosophical, ethical, and policy issues emanating from engineering and technology. Interwoven through its chapters are two themes, often held in tension with one another: “Exploring Boundaries” and “Expanding Connections.” “Expanding Connections” highlights contributions that look to philosophy for insight into some of the challenges engineers face in working with policy makers, l…Read more
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21Constructing a role ethics approach to engineering ethics educationEthics and Education 18 (2): 216-229. 2023.Engineering is a social enterprise. A successful engineering career depends on how engineers manage their relationships with diverse stakeholders including managers, clients, contractors, and the p...
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20In this paper, we argue that engineering ethics education does have moral implications. More specifically, practices in engineering ethics education can lead to negative moral consequences if not conducted appropriately. Engineering ethics educators are often passionate about teaching students ways to examine the ethical implications of engineering and technology. However, ethics educators may overlook the moral significance of their instructional classroom practices. In this paper, we discuss t…Read more
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20Practicing Engineering Ethics in Global Context: A Comparative Study of Expert and Novice Approaches to Cross-Cultural Ethical SituationsScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (4): 2097-2120. 2020.Engineers and other technical professionals are increasingly challenged by the impacts of globalization. Further, engineering educators, technical managers, and human resources staff have demonstrated great interest in selecting and training engineers who are capable of working competently, professionally, and ethically in global context. However, working across countries and cultures brings considerable challenges to global engineers, including as related to understanding and navigating local a…Read more
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19Review of "A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology" (review)Essays in Philosophy 13 (2): 617-622. 2012.
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19The Rule of Virtue: A Confucian Response to the Ethical Challenges of TechnocracyScience and Engineering Ethics 27 (5): 1-24. 2021.The idea of technocracy has been widely criticized in Western literature in the philosophy and sociology of technology. A common critique of technocracy is that it represents an “antidemocratic” and “dehumanizing” ideology. This paper invites Western scholars to reconsider their oppositions to technocracy by drawing on resources from Confucian ethics. In doing so, this paper synthesizes the major ethical challenges of technocracy mainly concerned by Western scholars in philosophy, political theo…Read more
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14Educating Self-Reflective EngineersTeaching Ethics 20 (1-2): 31-46. 2020.Some engineering educators recognize the necessity and challenges of teaching students moral sensitivity. As recently pointed out by some scholars, along with moral sensitivity, promoting “self-knowledge” is significantly lacking in engineering curricula. We suggest that the “ethics autobiography” employed in some health and psychological science programs can serve as a useful tool for helping engineering students develop moral sensitivity and self-reflective competencies. First, this paper brie…Read more
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14Why do we Need Norm Sensitive Design? A WEIRD Critique of Value Sensitive Approaches to DesignAxiomathes 33 (4): 1-19. 2023.The article argues that mainstream value-sensitive approaches to design have been based on narrow understandings of personhood and social dynamics, which are biased toward Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic cultures and contradicted by empirical evidence. To respond to this weakness, the article suggests that design may benefit from focusing on user behaviours from the joint perspective of values and norms, especially across cultural contexts. As such, it proposes Norm Sensitive…Read more
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13Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Research: Methodological, Fair, and Political ConsiderationsBulletin of Science, Technology and Society 40 (3-4): 40-53. 2020.Crowdsourcing platforms are powerful tools for academic researchers. Proponents claim that crowdsourcing helps researchers quickly and affordably recruit enough human subjects with diverse backgrounds to generate significant statistical power, while critics raise concerns about unreliable data quality, labor exploitation, and unequal power dynamics between researchers and workers. We examine these concerns along three dimensions: methods, fairness, and politics. We find that researchers offer va…Read more
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12TechnocracyIn Armin Grunwald (ed.), Handbuch Technikethik, Metzler. pp. 119-122. 2013.Any consideration of relationships between technology and ethics is likely at some point to encounter the concept of technocracy, as a proposal to incorporate scientific and engineering expertise into the political process.
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12Review of A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, Stig Andur Pendersen, & Vincent F. Hendricks (review)Essays in Philosophy 13 (2): 617-622. 2012.
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11Just Hierarchy and the Ethics of Artificial IntelligenceEthical Perspectives 30 (1): 59-76. 2023.
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11Corporate Social Responsibility and Engineering EthicsIn Deborah C. Poff & Alex C. Michalos (eds.), Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 445-450. 2021.
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10Thinking through Science and Technology: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in an Engineered World (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2023.This wide-ranging collection of original essays explores how individual and societal beliefs, values, and actions are transformed by science, technology, and engineering. Practical and theoretical insights from a global cohort of philosophers, policymakers, STS scholars, and engineers illuminate the perils and promise of technoscientific change.
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6Research in engineering ethics has assessed the ethical reasoning of students in mostly the US. However, it is not clear that ethical judgments are primarily the result of ethical reasoning, or that conclusions based on US samples would be true of global populations. China now graduates and employs more STEM (science technology engineering and mathematics) majors than any other country in the world, but the moral cognition and ethics education of Chinese engineers remains understudied. To addres…Read more
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2Confucianism, Marxism, and Pragmatism: The Intellectual Contexts of Engineering Education in ChinaIn Byron Newberry, Carl Mitcham, Martin Meganck, Andrew Jamison, Christelle Didier & Steen Hyldgaard Christensen (eds.), International Perspectives on Engineering Education: Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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Thinking through Science and Technology. Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in an Engineered World. (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2023.
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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Asian Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
General Philosophy of Science |