Michael Davis (philosopher)

For other people named Michael Davis, see Michael Davis (disambiguation).

Michael Davis (born 6 February 1943 in Canton, Ohio) is a philosopher of law, ethics, and political philosophy, author, and Professor of Philosophy at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Senior Fellow at IIT's Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions. Before coming to IIT in 1986, he taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, at Illinois State University, and at Case Western Reserve University.

Davis is perhaps best known among philosophers for his position in the theory of criminal justice, which can be seen as a form of retributive justice. But his work in engineering ethics has won him four large grants from the National Science Foundation and an entry in Who's Who in Science and Engineering. His papers on whistleblowing, conflict of interest, and professions are often reprinted.

Michael Davis is the author of eight books and more than 150 articles and chapters, and editor (or co-editor) of five other books. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1972.

He should not be confused with another philosopher Michael Davis, who has taught at Sarah Lawrence College since 1977 and whose work primarily concerns Aristotle, Plato, Greek Tragedy, and History of Modern Philosophy.

Bibliography

• Ethics and the Legal Profession (with Frederick Elliston) (1986)
• To Make the Punishment Fit the Crime (1992)
• AIDS: Crisis in Professional Ethics (with Elliot D. Cohen). (1994)
• Accountability in the Professions (1995)
• Justice in the Shadow of Death: Rethinking Capital and Lesser Punishments (1996)
• Thinking like an Engineer (1998)
• Ethics and the University (1999)
• Conflict of Interest in the Professions (with Andrew Stark) (2001)
• Profession, Code, and Ethics (2002)
• Actual Social Contract and Political Obligation (2002)
• Engineering Ethics (2005)
• Code Writing: How Software Engineering Became a Profession (2007)
• Ethics and the Legal Profession, 2nd ed (with Elliot D. Cohen and Frederick Elliston) (2009)

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

External links

• IIT faculty page

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