Reflexive Principlism as an Effective Approach for Developing Ethical Reasoning in Engineering.

An important goal of teaching ethics to engineering students is to enhance their ability to make well-reasoned ethical decisions in their engineering practice: a goal in line with the stated ethical codes of professional engineering organizations. While engineering educators have explored a wide ran...

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Publicado en:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 275 - 292
Autores principales: Beever, Jonathan, Brightman, Andrew
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2016
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          The Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, 131 Sparks Building University Park 16802 USA
          Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, Martin Jischke Drive West Lafayette 47907 USA
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        Ethical reasoning
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