professional ethics
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The Tuning-In Relationship (2023), Part 5
And now, at last, the conclusion to my 2023 paper, “The ‘Tuning-In’ Relationship in Music and in Ethics.” I’ll let it speak for itself. Practices An appeal to embodiment may be necessary to account for the tuning-in relationship, but it is not sufficient. Gestures and other bodily cues that mean one thing in one context… Continue reading
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The Tuning-In Relationship (2023), Part 4
Digging deeper into the phenomenology of making music together and thence to the phenomenology of social life, the next section of my 2023 paper concerns embodiment. Making music together is something we do as living beings of a species with a peculiar history, a species with a distinctive way of experiencing our own embodiment. Does… Continue reading
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The Tuning-In Relationship (2023), Part 1
A few years ago I finally made good on a long-ago promise to look into a possible connection – at least a parallel, perhaps something more – between music and ethics. In a 2015 post on teaching my older child how to drive, for example, I wrote: I picked up on the connection between music… Continue reading
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Hydraulic Fracturing: The Project
As I have been hinting, I’m currently caught up in a collaborative project on engineering, ethics and policy related to hydraulic fracturing. The idea for the project began to take shape in conversations I was having with my colleague, Chloé Arson, who is over in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech.… Continue reading
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Everyday Things
In my post of Tuesday afternoon, I made brief mention of an exercise in my environmental ethics class involving a pencil: In my environmental ethics class, I gave each of six groups a single no. 2 pencil – a classic yellow Ticonderoga, as it happens – and asked them first to write down everything they already… Continue reading
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Offices
Today, for the second time, some officers of the NYPD turned their backs on Mayor de Blasio when he spoke at the funeral of a fallen comrade. They were protesting what they perceived as the Mayor’s failure to support rank-and-file police officers during a turbulent fall. This strikes me as an especially delicate matter on… Continue reading
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The Other End of the Beam
This past semester I presented students in my engineering ethics course with an especially messy problem situation involving the development of a cyclotron for use in proton therapy, an unreliable fellow engineer, a boss playing favorites, the spectacular failure of a control system during a preliminary test, the relative merits of hardware versus software, and… Continue reading