Engineers Who Kill

Abstract

The work upon which this paper was based was supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities under Grant Number OSS-7906980. Some of the ideas here were developed during participation in the National Project on Philosophy and Engineering Ethics (at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. For comments and encouragement, I am indebted to Stephen H. Unger, David Davis, Sandra Ward, Robert Bruder, Vivian Weil, Patricia Werhane, T. Paul Torda, Andrew G. Oldenquist, Victor Paschkis, Edward E. Slowter, Win Nagley, Frank Tillman, Eliot Deutsch, Edward D. Harter, Fred Bender, Deborah Johnson, and Sara Lyn Smith. Earlier versions of this paper have been read at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Century 2 Conference in San Francisco (August, 1980) and at the Conference on Business and Professional Ethics sponsored by Loyola University and University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (May, 1981).