Ethics, tools, and the engineer

ill. ; 24 cm.Beginnings -- Tools in history -- The prehominid era -- Making stone tools -- Tools have downsides -- Humans turn to fire -- One tool leads to another: the birth of language -- A view as to how language might have begun -- Tools at the dawn of history -- Putting it in writing -- Money and metals -- Humans acquire power -- Tools and intentionality -- What is/are ethics? -- Ethics: the word -- Ethics as hypotheses or "best guesses" (absolute and relative ethics) -- Ethics as the set point in a control system modulating human behavior -- Ethics and values -- Ethics in history -- Ethics in practice: normative and metaethics -- Toward a well-founded metaethics -- The issue of determinism and free will -- What about responsibility? -- The "is-ought" question -- Descriptive ethics -- Ethical systems -- Ethical systems compared -- Resolving ethical conflicts -- Teaching and learning ethics -- The early years -- Growing up -- Influential bodies -- Ethics and science and engineering courses at the tertiary level of education -- Ethics experts? -- Engineers as toolmakers and users -- Defining an engineer -- The fourfold way -- The need to use and acquire knowledge -- Achieving the practical -- Being a genius -- The ethics component -- The process of doing science can cause ethical concerns -- Fabrication and falsification of data -- Plagiarism -- Data selection, manipulation, and management -- Conflict of interest -- Authorship issues -- Mentoring issues -- Peer review: misconduct/theft -- Safety issues.Includes bibliographical references and index.by Raymond E. Spier. More Records: Show record informationBook