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Engineering and war : militarism, ethics, institutions, alternatives / Ethan Blue, Michael Levine, Dean Nieusma.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Morgan & Claypool)
Main Authors: Blue, Ethan (Author), Levine, Michael P., 1950- (Author), Nieusma, Dean (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, 2014.
Series:Synthesis lectures on engineering, technology, and society ; #20.
Subjects:
War > Moral and ethical aspects.
Military engineering > Moral and ethical aspects.
Engineering ethics.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The close alignment of engineering and warfare
  • 1.1 Direct and indirect connections: engineering, warfare, militarism
  • 1.2 What is engineering?
  • 1.2.1 Engineering as a domain of knowledge
  • 1.2.2 Engineering as a set of practices
  • 1.2.3 Engineering as a profession
  • 1.2.4 Engineering as an ideology
  • 1.3 Engineering's surprising silence on warfare
  • 1.3.1 Why the silence?
  • 2. The ethics of war
  • 2.1 Do engineers have special ethical responsibilities around warfare?
  • 2.2 Just war theory
  • 2.2.1 Jus ad bellum, "Justice of war": when is it just to go to war?
  • 2.2.2 Jus in bello, "Justice in war": how can war be fought justly?
  • 2.2.3 Just war and engineering ethics
  • 3. Engineering integrity
  • 3.1 What is integrity?
  • 3.1.1 Integrity as self-integration
  • 3.1.2 Integrity as maintenance of identity
  • 3.1.3 Integrity as standing for something
  • 3.1.4 Integrity as moral purpose
  • 3.1.5 Integrity as a virtue
  • 3.2 Integrity and social structure
  • 3.2.1 Structures of alienation
  • 4. Historical entwinements: from colonial conflicts to cold war
  • 4.1 Birth of the military-industrial complex
  • 4.2 The military-industrial-academic complex
  • 4.2.1 Long histories, global histories
  • 4.3 Social history of the military-industrial-academic complex
  • 4.3.1 From military technologies to socio-economic practices
  • 4.3.2 From socio-economic practices to technoscientific research
  • 4.3.3 Big social science
  • 5. Historical entwinements, post-cold war
  • 5.1 "Soft kill" weapons research
  • 5.1.1 The rise of non-lethal weaponry
  • 5.1.2 Civilian crowd control
  • 5.2 Non-lethal weapons research comes of age
  • 5.2.1 Second-generation soft-kill weaponry
  • 5.3 The increasing depersonalization of violence
  • 5.4 DARPA's spiral of innovation
  • 5.4.1 Military technology proliferation
  • 5.4.2 Contemporary military research funding
  • 6. Responding to militarism in engineering
  • 6.1 Historic responses: anti-war engineers
  • 6.1.1 Anti-militarism reform efforts
  • 6.1.2 Humanitarian reform efforts
  • 6.2 Ethical challenges of contemporary warfare
  • 6.2.1 The hidden violence of depersonalized war
  • 6.2.2 The blurring of military targets
  • 6.3 Contemporary responses to engineering and war
  • 6.3.1 Engineering for peace and justice
  • 6.3.2 Engineering for sustainable community development
  • 7. Conclusion: facing the entwinement of engineering and war
  • Additional resources
  • References
  • Author biographies.

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