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Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1. Our Moral World -- 2. Design Problems -- 3. Conceptual Space for Creative Solutions -- 4. Ethics in Engineering -- 5. Rules of Skill -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2: Analyzing Accidents -- 1. What Can Go Wrong -- Chapter 3: Error-Provocative Designs -- 1. Artifacts Can Cause Accidents -- 2. Stove Tops: How to Confuse a Cook -- 3. The Ethics of Confusing a Cook -- 4. Simplifying the Problem -- 5. What Is Natural -- 6. Examples of Error-Provocative Designs -- 7. Ethics and Design -- 8. Summary -- Chapter 4: Airliner Crashes -- 1. The Colombia Crash -- 2. Operator Error? -- 3. Predictable Problems -- 4. Guarding Against Error -- 5. Boeing's Failures -- 6. Instability in the MAX -- 7. Engineering Stability -- 8. The Pilots -- Chapter 5: Moral Responsibility: Intent Is Not Necessary -- 1. Intent Is Not Always Necessary -- 2. Moral Responsibility Because of Intent -- 3. Moral Responsibility Without Intent -- 4. Those Software Engineers -- Chapter 6: Permitting, Encouraging, and Provoking Errors -- 1. The Argument So Far -- 2. An Evil Genius of an Engineer -- 3. So What Difference Does It Make? -- 4. What Counts as a Design Problem? -- Chapter 7: Harms and Design Solutions -- 1. Unprovoked Harms -- 2. Missed Signals and Other Harms -- 3. The Artifact: Sustainability, Recycling, and Remanufacturing -- 4. Other Harms -- 5. What Counts as a Design Solution? -- 6. Value-Laden Choices -- Chapter 8: Role Morality -- 1. The Roles We Have -- 2. On Becoming a Professional -- 3. Knowledge That -- 4. Knowledge How -- 5. Potential Moral Relations -- Chapter 9: Forms of Life -- 1. Thinking like an Engineer.

"Before we can resolve or avoid an ethical dilemma, we need to understand what makes something ethical. Practical and Professional Ethics : Key Concepts introduces us to a series of real cases where the stakes can be high, the situations complex, and the ethical issues often difficult to see. Drawing on examples from medicine, law and science, it offers a practical approach to thinking critically about the ethical problems that occur in our professions, teaching us how to: focus on the ethical aspects of any situation distinguish between different kinds of ethical problems tailor our response to the kind of problem we face construct arguments we can plausibly attribute to those involved identify the role of power, discretion and moral blindness By guiding us through the concepts, issues and skills at play when we face an ethical problem, we learn how to find a solution. Ideal for students or professionals, this book provides the grounding required to become a more complex moral thinker, a quality that can be applied in a number of fields and jobs"--

Wade L. Huntley, Ph.D., is senior lecturer in the National Security Affairs department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and an independent consultant on international security issues. He has worked extensively engaging governmental officials and non-governmental experts on a range of contemporary international policy challenges. His publications include four edited volumes and over fifty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and scholarly essays on topics of nuclear weapons proliferation, global security studies, security and arms control in space, US foreign policies, East and South Asian regional security, and international relations theory.

Delineating the impact of North Korea's nuclear program on overall military spending among the other principal states of Northeast Asia is challenging. This article presents a foundation to address that challenge. After summarizing key elements of North Korea's nuclear program, the article introduces frameworks to examine the security consequences of the program for the Northeast Asian region and assess North Korea's motivations to pursue nuclear capabilities. The reviews indicate how these frameworks can be used to deduce hypotheses of more specific linkages of North Korea's activities to other states' military spending decisions, some strategically motivated and others more influenced by symbolism and domestic politics. The article concludes with observations on contemporary developments derived from the analysis. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)

Since the collapse of the U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework in 2002, the Bush administration has failed to restrain North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions, principally because of the constraints of highly idealized convictions. Resolution of the Korean nuclear crisis now depends on U.S. initiative beyond the boundaries of these predispositions and beyond the terms of the nuclear crisis itself.