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Prisoners Of The Capitalist Machine: Captivity And The Corporate Engineer, Eddie Conlon
Prisoners Of The Capitalist Machine: Captivity And The Corporate Engineer, Eddie Conlon
Books/Book chapters
This chapter will focus on how engineering practice is conditioned by an economic system which promotes production for profit and economic growth as an end in itself. As such it will focus on the notion of the captivity of engineering which emanates from features of the economic system. By drawing on Critical Realism and a Marxist literature, and by focusing on the issues of safety and sustainability (in particular the issue of climate change), it will examine the extent to which disasters and workplace accidents result from the economic imperative for profitable production and how efforts by engineers to address …
A Critical Realist Approach To Engineering Ethics, Eddie Conlon
A Critical Realist Approach To Engineering Ethics, Eddie Conlon
Conference papers
This paper is focused on the teaching of engineering ethics (EE). Through a focus on safety and the lens of what sociologists call the agency/ structure relationship it examimes various approaches to this teaching. Drawing on Critical Realism it argues there are deficiencies in both the dominant approach and a number of proposed alternatives as they suffer from various forms of conflationism . By drawing on Critical Realism (CR) a more robust agenda for teaching engineering ethics can be developed. It is argued that CR offers a basis for understanding the range of factors which lead to accidents and disasters. …