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A Value–Led Landscape Design as Model for Ethical Governance
How would a value–led landscape design leverage more equal and sustainable transformations in land governance and use? In light of recent changes in climate, society, and technology, inter and multidisciplinary collaborations as well as knowledge exchange ...
2024Compassion and Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning: The Emotional Experience of Engineering Ethics Cases
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Background: There has been an increase in interest in emotion in engineering and science ethics education. There is also evidence that emotional content in case studies may improve students’ learning and enhance awareness, understanding, and motivation con ...
2023Emotional empathy and engineering students’moral reasoning
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Although engineering education is often characterized as a rational activity, research suggests that emotions are vital for learning at all levels of education. In ethics education, there is evidence that including mild emotional information in case studie ...
2022The diversity of moral preferences: Evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics
Empirical evidence suggests that there exists substantial heterogeneity in individuals' social preferences. However, there is little theoretical basis supporting this observation and economic models often assume that all individuals are identical. Hence, t ...
EPFL2019Globalizing the digital: A cross-cultural framework for the ethics of operationalizing Big Data
Concerns over the ever-increasing production, availability and use of multilayered individual data in social research, business and the everyday life calls for the development of ethical and legal guidelines. In parallel to civic and governmental initiativ ...
2018Moral Matrices
In this dissertation, I address the political and moral geography of Swiss federal participatory votes for the period between 1981 and 2014 to re-investigate some of the fundamental questions left open in urban sciences: how and why socio-ethical, moral an ...
EPFL2017A heterogeneous evolutionary stable population under assortative matching: Exploring the diversity of preferences
Boris Thurm, Charles Chadi Ayoubi
Recent studies have shown that a population acting not only upon self-interest but also exhibiting some morality preference has an evolutionary advantage. Specifically, in the setting of a symmetric fitness game, a resident population is evolutionary stabl ...
2017Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program
Ambrogio Fasoli, Denis Gillet, Alexis Berne, Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Ingrid Le Duc, Samuel Bendahan, Delphine Preissmann, Jérome Feige, Luca Bragazza, Antonin Danalet, Adrian Christian Holzer
To tackle the challenges of the 21st century, future scientists and engineers have to understand the interplay between societal challenges and technical solutions as early as possible in their education. They also have to develop the communication and the ...
Tempus Publications2016Moral, Ethics and Geography: An Empirical Perspective on Political, Economical and Sociability Behaviors
Ethics and morality as objects of research remain important blind spots of geography. Despite their recent attempts to reconcile the discipline’s take on ethics, geographers hardly ever investigate the individual and social production of moral and ethical ...
2016Ready to face the world?Lessons learnt from applying a Multi-Professional Shared Learning Test tofirst year Engineering and Science students at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Cécile Hardebolle, Ingrid Le Duc
This paper presents the results of a project aimed to measure changes in attitudes and perception of science, engineering and architecture first year students about working in a professionally diverse environment. At the beginning of the Global Issues cour ...
2016