@inproceedings{3e22d4bee36e4eeeba721c46ddefa284,
title = "A critical realist approach to engineering ethics",
abstract = "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. It allows for a fuller consideration of agency/structure relations and the importance of changing the contexts in which engineers work in order to allow them to hold paramount the health, safety and welfare of the public.",
keywords = "critical realism, engineering ethics, safety, strcture/agency realtions",
author = "Eddie Conlon",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, ISTAS 2015 ; Conference date: 11-11-2015 Through 12-11-2015",
year = "2016",
month = mar,
day = "22",
doi = "10.21427/d71j69",
language = "English",
series = "International Symposium on Technology and Society, Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, ISTAS 2015",
address = "United States",
}