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The Engineering Project : Its Nature, Ethics, and Promise /

We all live our daily lives surrounded by the products of technology that make what we do simpler, faster, and more efficient. These are benefits we often just take for granted. But at the same time, as these products disburden us of unwanted tasks that consumed much time and effort in earlier eras,...

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Autor principal: Moriarty, Gene (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I The modern engineering enterprise
  • One: Process
  • Two: Process Ethics
  • Three: Colonization
  • PART II The Premodern engineering endeavor
  • Four: Person
  • Five: Virtue Ethics
  • Six: Contextualization
  • PART III The focal engineering venture
  • Seven: Product
  • Eight: Material Ethics
  • Nine: Balance
  • Index