Designing in Times of Uncertainty: What Virtue Ethics Can Bring to Engineering Ethics in the Twenty-First Century

Jan Peter Bergen, Zoë Robaey*

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    Abstract

    Our world is changing in rapid and unanticipated ways. Given technology’s central role in those changes, engineers face difficult design decisions. In dominant consequentialist and deontological engineering ethics paradigms, making design choices implies having sufficient information on those choices and their trade-offs, which is often lacking. Some scholars have pointed to virtue ethics as an alternative approach to engineering ethics, but how can virtue ethics support engineers in situations of uncertainty? In this chapter, we explore how virtue ethics is conducive to sound engineering in different conditions of uncertainty.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationValues for a Post-Pandemic Future
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages163-183
    Number of pages21
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-08424-9
    ISBN (Print)978-3-031-08423-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 14 Sept 2022

    Publication series

    NamePhilosophy of Engineering and Technology
    Volume40
    ISSN (Print)1879-7202
    ISSN (Electronic)1879-7210

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