Nature's worth is based on its function or use for humans.
What is conservationism? or What is instrumental value?
100
Outcomes are the main factor in ethical decision making.
What is Utilitarianism or Consequentialism?
100
Identifying and making value judgments in the engineering design processes.
What is value sensitive design?
100
A wide range of policies, programs, and practices that seek to reconcile the pursuit of profit with the well being of environments and people impacted by business.
What is Corporate Social Responsibility?
100
The head architect for Hitler's Germany.
Who is Albert Speer?
200
Doctrine that states water rights are determined by priority of beneficial use (a.k.a. "first in time, first in right")
What is prior appropriation?
200
The view that morality is true or false according to cultural perspective, and that no culture or perspective is uniquely privileged over all others.
What is moral relativism?
200
The concept that scientific research and developments can be done without any specific purpose or use.
What is pure science?
200
An approach that requires one to actively avoid possible harmful effects or outcomes.
What is the Precautionary Principle?
200
Developed the concept of the veil of ignorance.
Who is John Rawls?
300
A 1964 law that recognizes "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
What is The Wilderness Act?
300
A state of mind that is adopted to create rules that DO NOT benefit any particular group of people.
What is "The Veil of Ignorance"?
300
Technology that can be used for both harmful and beneficial ends.
What is dual use?
300
Psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.
What is the bystander effect?
300
The only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project on moral grounds.
Who is Joseph Rotblat?
400
People act in their own self-interest contrary to the good of all users by depleting the resource.
What is tragedy of the commons?
400
Ethical actions are determined by absolute rules, and consequences are not factored into decision making.
What is Deontology?
400
An answer to a problem that DOES NOT require a product that is designed and disseminated.
What is a non-technical solution?
400
Tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that affirms one's preconceptions
What is confirmation bias?
400
Philosopher closely associated with Utilitarianism.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
500
An analogy for understanding nature's highly organized structure comprised of a system that depends on the cooperation and competition of its diverse parts.
What is the land pyramid?
500
Moral or political agreements established to maintain a society.
What is a social contract?
500
The personalization of digital information that limits people's experience and knowledge
What is the Filter Bubble?
500
Fixed patterns of behavior whereby humans act according to the behavior of other humans.
What is social cuing?
500
A libertarian who defined "fairness" as treating all people exactly the same regardless of their circumstances.