Topical Presentation:    
   Hands on Lesson in Ethical Decision-making  
 
Speaker:     Michael Davis        Michael Davis
Humanities Department

Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois

Date: Friday, June 25, 2004
Location:   Fountain Blue Banquets
(Same as the main meeting)
  Times:
Topical Group: 5:30-6:30 P.M.
Social Hour: 6:00- 7:00 P.M.
Dinner: 7:00 P.M.
Meeting: 8:00 P.M.

Abstract:

I hope this will be a "hands on" lesson in ethical decision-making, not a lecture.  I will take about twenty minutes to present some useful aids to making ethical decisions.  The next twenty minutes or so I will lead a discussion of one or two ethical cases I have brought, cases raising questions of professional ethics for chemists.  This will give some practice in the use of the aids presented.  For the rest of the meeting, I would like to have the audience present professional ethics cases that have bothered them, whether because they have faced them or seen others face them, or just because they are worried that they may some day have face such a case.

Biography:

Michael Davis is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Professor of Philosophy, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.  Before coming to IIT in 1986, he taught at Case-Western Reserve, Illinois State, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.  For 1985-86, he held a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship.  Since 1991, he has held—among other grants—three from the National Science Foundation to integrate ethics into technical courses.

Davis has published more than 120 articles (and chapters) and authored seven books: To Make the Punishment Fit the Crime (Westview, 1992); Justice in the Shadow of Death (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996); Thinking Like an Engineer (Oxford, 1998); Ethics and the University (Routledge, 1999); Profession, Code, and Ethics (Ashgate, 2002); and Actual Social Contract and Political Obligation (Mellen, 2002); and also co-edited three other books: Ethics and the Legal Professions (Prometheus, 1986); AIDS: Crisis in Professional Ethics (Temple, 1994); and Conflict of Interest in the Professions(Oxford, 2001). He now at work on another book, Code Writing: How Software Engineering Became a Profession.

He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1972.



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