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Compassion and Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning: The Emotional Experience of Engineering Ethics Cases

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 ...

American Society for Engineering Education2023

Emotional 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 ...

2022

The diversity of moral preferences: Evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics

Boris Thurm

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 ...

EPFL2019

Moral Matrices : Space Through the Unfolding of Direct Democracy in Switzerland

Shin Alexandre Koseki

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 ...

EPFL2017

A 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 ...

2017

Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program

Ambrogio Fasoli, Denis Gillet, Alexis Berne, Roland John Tormey, Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Samuel Bendahan, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Delphine Preissmann, Luca Bragazza

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 Publications2016

The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Cécile Hardebolle, Ingrid Le Duc

In recent years, a commitment to professional ethics and professional responsibility has been included among the learning outcomes required of engineering education programmes in many counties. So, how should engineering ethics be taught? There is evidence ...

2015

The Cognitive And Neural Time Course Of Empathy And Sympathy: An Electrical Neuroimaging Study On Self-Other Interaction

Olaf Blanke, Manuel Mercier

Although extensively investigated in sociocognitive neuroscience, empathy is difficult to study. The first difficulty originates in its multifaceted nature. According to the multidimensional model, empathy combines emotional, automatic (simulation), cognit ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014