Broadening Ethics Teaching in Engineering: Beyond the Individualistic Approach

Broadening Ethics Teaching in Engineering: Beyond the Individualistic Approach

There is a widespread approach to the teaching of ethics to engineering students in which the exclusive focus is on engineers as individual agents and the broader context in which they do their work is ignored. Although this approach has frequently been criticised in the literature, it persists on a wide scale, as can be inferred from accounts in the educational literature and from the contents...

Teaching Engineering Ethics

There is general agreement that engineering students should receive ethics instruction as a part of their undergraduate education. However, there are diverse opinions on how engineering ethics instruction should be carried out. Philosophy of ethics, the original approach, emphasizes normative ideals and abstract principles. The new case studies approach focuses on a number of real and hypotheti...

Teaching engineering ethics and sustainability

Most professional engineering code’s of ethics require that engineers shall understand and promote the principles of sustainability and/or sustainable development and have due regard for their environmental, social and economic obligations. However the ethical obligations towards sustainability are incorporated into the teaching of engineering ethics in very few programmes. Typically engineerin...

Ac 2007-2318: an Integrative Approach to Teaching Engineering Ethics

Superagency: Beyond Individualistic Game Theory

In this talk I’m going to suggest that some fundamental problems in Game Theory can be resolved by supposing that individual players can, without any communication, coalesce and act like supraindividual agents. The modus operandi of these superagents has several features of the systems of arti...cial agents of Computer Science. I hope my proposal may help towards opening one more pathway betwee...