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| Preface | |
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| Foundational Principles | |
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| Approaching The Subject of Ethics | |
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| An Example | |
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| The Importance of Ethics in Science and Engineering | |
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| Managing Ethical Discussion | |
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| Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics | |
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| The Existence of Right and Wrong | |
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| Principle: Certain aspects of right and wrong exist objectively, independent of culture or personal opinion | |
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| The Subject of Moral Analysis | |
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| The Role of Codes of Ethics | |
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| A Real-life Case: Destruction of the Spaceship Challengerr | |
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| The Person and the Virtues | |
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| Developing a Model for the Person | |
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| Components of the Psyche | |
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| Limitations of the Model | |
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| Habits and Morals | |
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| The Four Main Virtues | |
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| Principle: People should always decide and act according to the virtues insofar as possible | |
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| An Example | |
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| A Real-life Case; Toxic Waste at Love Canal | |
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| Analyzing Exterior Acts: Some First Steps | |
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| Ethics as a Craft | |
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| Distinguishing Exterior and Interior Morality | |
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| Beginning Case Analysis | |
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| Event Trees | |
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| A Real-life Case: Dow Corning Corp. and Breast Implants | |
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| Analyzing Interior Intentions: Some First Steps | |
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| Describing Intention | |
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| The Importance of Intention | |
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| Effort and the Virtues | |
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| Principle: People should try insofar as possible to continue to progress in the moral life | |
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| The Role of Benevolence | |
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| A Real-life Case: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Some Words of Caution | |
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| Note | |
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| Resolving Ethical Conflicts | |
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| Toward a Hierarchy of Moral Values | |
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| On Selecting Principles and Methods | |
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| Hierarchies of Values: Moral and Nonmoral | |
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| Line-drawing | |
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| An Example | |
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| Mathematical Analogies | |
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| Ranking the Virtues | |
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| A Real-life Case: Scientific Tests Using Animals | |
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| Starting Moral Judgments: Evaluating Exterior Acts | |
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| A Mathematical Analogy | |
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| An Example | |
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| A Real-life Case: Chemical Disaster at Bhopal | |
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| Completing Moral Judgments: The Decisive Role of Intention | |
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| Evaluating Interior Goodness | |
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| An Example | |
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| Balancing Evaluations of Interior and Exterior Goodness | |
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| The "Solomon Problem" | |
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| Principle: The obligation to avoid what is bad outweighs the obligation to do what is good | |
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| Cooperating in the Evil of Others | |
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| A Real-life Case: The Problem of Performance Evaluation--Grade Inflation | |
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| Moral Responsibility | |
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| Factors Limiting Moral Responsibility | |
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| Degrees of Responsibility | |
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| An Example | |
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| The "Sainthood" and "Devil" Problems | |
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| A Real-life Case: Responsibility in Software Engineering | |
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| Summary | |
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| Some Words of Caution | |
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| Justice: Applications | |
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| Truth: Person-to-Person | |
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| Truth in Actions | |
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| Truth in Words | |
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| Harm from Deception | |
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| Harm from Withholding Truth | |
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| Whistleblowing | |
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| Harm from Spreading Truth | |
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| Privacy | |
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| A Real-lfe Case: Censorship of the Internet | |
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| Truth: Social | |
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| Distinctions between Science and Engineering | |
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| Approach to Knowledge in Science | |
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| Recognition from Scientific Publication | |
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| Black and Gray in Scientific Practice | |
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| Approach to Knowledge in Technology | |
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| Intellectual Property | |
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| A Real-life Case: Copying Music Illegally Using the Internet | |
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| Fairness: Person-to-Person | |
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| Conflict of Interest | |
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| Qualitative versus Quantitative Fairness | |
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| Credit or Blame in Team Projects/br$$$> | |