Steps Toward a Philosophy of Engineering: Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays Mitcham Carl
Steps Toward a Philosophy of Engineering: Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays Mitcham Carl The rise of classic Euro-American philosophy of technology in the 1950s originally emphasized the…
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Steps Toward a Philosophy of Engineering: Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays Mitcham Carl
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. What is engineering? 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.
How is engineering related to other aspects of human existence? What is the meaning of engineering? 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
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