Michael Davis (born 6 February 1943) is an American philosopher specializing in professional ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at the

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, and Senior Fellow at its

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. Davis is the author of several books, including ''Accountability in the Professions'' (1995), ''Profession, Code, and Ethics'' (2002), and ''Engineering Ethics'' (2005).

Background

Davis received his PhD in 1972 from the

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for a dissertation entitled "Representation and Consent: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Political Obligation." Before moving to the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1986, he taught at the

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, and

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."Michael Davis"
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Curriculum Vitae
IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences.

Research interests

Davis's work in

engineering ethics Engineering ethics is the field of system of moral principles that apply to the practice of engineering. The field examines and sets the obligations by engineers to society, to their clients, and to the profession. As a scholarly discipline, it is ...

has won him four large grants from the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

and an entry in '' Who's Who in Science and Engineering''. His papers on

whistleblowing A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person, often an employee, who reveals information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent. Whi ...

and

conflict of interest A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another. Typically, this relates to situations i ...

are often reprinted. He is the author of eight books and almost 200 articles and chapters, and editor (or co-editor) of five other books.Note: Davis should not be confused with the philosopher Michael Davis who has taught at

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since 1977, and whose work primarily concerns Aristotle, Plato and Greek Tragedy.

Bibliography

* with Frederick Elliston, ''Ethics and the Legal Profession'' (Prometheus Books, 1986) *''To Make the Punishment Fit the Crime'' (Westview Press, 1992) * with Elliot D. Cohen, ''AIDS: Crisis in Professional Ethics'' (Temple University Press, 1994) *''Accountability in the Professions'' (1995) *''Justice in the Shadow of Death: Rethinking Capital and Lesser Punishments'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996) *''Thinking like an Engineer'' (Oxford University Press, 1998) *''Ethics and the University'' (Routledge, 1999) * with Andrew Stark, ''Conflict of Interest in the Professions'' (Oxford University Press, 2001) *''Profession, Code, and Ethics'' (Ashgate, 2002) *''Actual Social Contract and Political Obligation'' (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) *''Engineering Ethics'' (Ashgate, 2005) *''Code Writing: How Software Engineering Became a Profession'' (Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, 2007) * with Elliot D. Cohen and Frederick Elliston, ''Ethics and the Legal Profession, 2nd ed'' (Prometheus Book, 2009) *''Thinking like an Engineer: Studies in the Ethics of a Profession'' (Zhejiang University Press, 2012) *''The Architect’s Professional Ethics: Readings and Problems'' (forthcoming)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Michael 1943 births American philosophers Illinois Institute of Technology faculty Illinois State University alumni Living people University of Michigan alumni

Background

Research interests

Bibliography

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