The Responsibilities of Engineers.
Knowledge of the responsibilities of engineers is the foundation for answering ethical questions about the work of engineers. This paper defines the responsibilities of engineers by considering what constitutes the nature of engineering as a particular form of activity. Specifically, this paper focu...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 519 - 539 |
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