A Plea for Judgment.
Judgment is central to engineering, medicine, the sciences and many other practical activities. For example, one who otherwise knows what engineers know but lacks 'engineering judgment' may be an expert of sorts, a handy resource much like a reference book or database, but cannot be a competent engi...
| Published in: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 789 - 809 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2012
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