Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering

Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays

AvCarl Mitcham

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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The rise of classic Euro-American philosophy of technology in the 1950s originally emphasized the importance of technologies as material entities and their mediating influence within human experience. Recent decades, however, have witnessed a subtle shift toward reflection on the activity from which these distinctly modern artifacts emerge and through which they are engaged and managed, that is, on engineering. What is engineering? What is the meaning of engineering? How is engineering related to other aspects of human existence? Such basic questions readily engage all major branches of philosophy --- ontology, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics --- although not always to the same degree. The historico-philosophical and critical reflections collected here record a series of halting steps to think through engineering and the engineered way of life that we all increasingly live in what has been called the Anthropocene. The aim is not to promote an ideology for engineering but to stimulate deeper reflection among engineers and non-engineers alike about some basic challenges of our engineered and engineering lifeworld.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-06
Mått:153 x 220 x 25 mm
Vikt:630 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:466
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786611277

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Carl Mitcham is International Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Technology at Renmin University of China and Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines. His publications include Thinking through Technology (1994), and Ethics and Science: An Introduction (2012, with Adam Briggle).

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As a book to read cover-to-cover, Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering possesses both the charms and tics of any collection of previously published essays. This collection of Mitcham's essays is a clearly-written, generous, and thoughtful guide. In other words, the volume as a whole should be assigned reading in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsFragments in Search of an Introduction:Remarks on Engineering as a Theme in Philosophy[Introduction]EmergenceDual Contexts: West and EastEngineering StudiesAmerican InitiativesEngineering in WordsPhilosophy and EngineeringEngineering Is EverywhereAspirationsPart One1. Science, Technology, Engineering, and the Military[Introduction]Observations from HistoryHistorico-Philosophical BackgroundAfter World War II in the United StatesMilitary Embeds with Philosophy of EngineeringConclusionAddendum: Re-Engineering Warfare2. Ethics into Design[Introduction]On the Existence of DesignOn the Social Dimensions of Modern DesignOn the Ethics of DesigningTwo Versions of an Ethics in DesignNotes toward an Inner Ethics of DesignNotes3. The Importance of Philosophy to Engineering[Introduction]1. Self-Defense and Philosophy2. Self-Interest and Philosophy3. Excursus: Three Questions4. Engineering and Ethics5. Beyond Applied Et