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{{Short description|American philosopher}}
{{For|the American philosopher at Sarah Lawrence College|Michael Peter Davis}}
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| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1943|02|06}}
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| education     = BA (philosophy), [[Western Reserve University]], 1965<br />MA (philosophy), [[University of Michigan]]<br/>PhD (philosophy), University of Michigan, 1972<br/>Law, University of Michigan, 1976–1977<ref name=cv/>
| occupation    = Professor of philosophy
| employer      = [[Illinois Institute of Technology]]
| known_for     = Specializes in professional ethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy
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'''Michael Davis''' (born 6 February 1943) is an American philosopher specializing in professional ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]], and Senior Fellow at its Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions.

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 [[University of Michigan]] 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 [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], [[Illinois State University]], and [[Case Western Reserve University]].<ref name=cv>[http://humansciences.iit.edu/faculty/michael-davis "Michael Davis"] and [http://humansciences.iit.edu/sites/humanscience/files/field_uploads/faculty/Davis_VITA%20October%202014.pdf Curriculum Vitae], IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences.</ref>

==Research interests==
Davis's 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]] and [[conflict of interest]] are often reprinted.<ref>See, for example, Michael Davis, "Whistleblowing," in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), ''The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics'', Oxford University Press, 2005, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sybd1C5zWkoC&pg=PA539 p. 539ff].</ref> He is the author of eight books and almost 200 articles and chapters, and editor (or co-editor) of five other books.<ref>Note: Davis should not be confused with the philosopher Michael Davis who has taught at [[Sarah Lawrence College]] since 1977, and whose work primarily concerns Aristotle, Plato and Greek Tragedy.</ref>

==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)

==See also==
* [[American philosophy]]
* [[List of American philosophers]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
* [http://humansciences.iit.edu/faculty/michael-davis IIT faculty page]

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