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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Engineering Ethics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 711-0108/02
Abbreviation IE
Course title Engineering Ethics
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator Mgr. Tomáš Zemčík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Formation and establishment of ethics as a discipline.
2. Basic ethical problems and concepts.
3. Basic methodological approaches in ethics (descriptive ethics, normative ethics, meta-ethics, applied ethics).
4. Main functions of morality, justification of moral sentences.
5. The concept of moral conduct.
6. Historical overview of ethical theory.
7. The obligation and the moral law: deontological ethics.
8. Utilitarianism.
9. Submission of ethical argument and its structure.
10. Thought experiments in ethics.

Literature

VAN DE POEL, I. Ethics, Technology, and Engineering: An Introduction, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. ISBN: 978-1444330946 .
WHITBECK, C. ETHICS IN ENGINEERING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH (Second Edition), Cambridge University Press 2011, New York, USA, Second edition published 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-89797-6 .

Advised literature

SCHINZINGER, R. Introduction to Engineering Ethics, New York, The McGraw-Hill Companies 2010, ISBN 978-0-07-248311-6 .
SINGER, P. A companion to ethics. Oxford : Blackwcll Publishcrs, 1993. ISBN 978-0631187851 .
WALLACH, W. A dangerous master, Basic Book 2015, New York, ISBN 978-0-465-05862-4 .


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