Print Email Facebook Twitter Emotional Engineers: Toward Morally Responsible Design Title Emotional Engineers: Toward Morally Responsible Design Author Roeser, S. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Values and Technology Date 2010-10-09 Abstract Engineers are normally seen as the archetype of people who make decisions in a rational and quantitative way. However, technological design is not value neutral. The way a technology is designed determines its possibilities, which can, for better or for worse, have consequences for human wellbeing. This leads various scholars to the claim that engineers should explicitly take into account ethical considerations. They are at the cradle of new technological developments and can thereby influence the possible risks and benefits more directly than anybody else. I have argued elsewhere that emotions are an indispensable source of ethical insight into ethical aspects of risk. In this paper I will argue that this means that engineers should also include emotional reflection into their work. This requires a new understanding of the competencies of engineers: they should not be unemotional calculators; quite the opposite, they should work to cultivate their moral emotions and sensitivity, in order to be engaged in morally responsible engineering. Subject engineeringdesignresponsibilityriskemotion To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cd04ee91-c634-49c8-a295-fc9d7caab72f DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-010-9236-0 Publisher Springer ISSN 1353-3452 Source Science and Engineering Ethics, 18 (1), 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2010 Roeser, S. Files PDF Roeser.pdf 174.1 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:cd04ee91-c634-49c8-a295-fc9d7caab72f/datastream/OBJ/view