Overview
- Offers up-to-date perspectives on central issues in the emerging dialogue between philosophers and engineers
- Contributes to the formation of the new field of philosophy of engineering
- Provides an interdisciplinary view including perspectives from both theorists and practitioners
- Demonstrates how reflective engineering can contribute to the construction of an engineering identity
Part of the book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 15)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reflections on Practice
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Front Matter
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Reflections on Principles
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- 2008 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering
- 2009 Meeting Society for Philosophy and Technology
- 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology
- Engineering Identity
- Engineering and Philosophy
- Engineering ethics
- Ontological and epistemological dimensions of engineering
- Philosophy of Engineering
- Reflective Engineering
- Reflective engineering education
About this book
Building on the breakthrough text Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda, this book offers 30 chapters covering conceptual and substantive developments in the philosophy of engineering, along with a series of critical reflections by engineering practitioners. The volume demonstrates how reflective engineering can contribute to a better understanding of engineering identity and explores how integrating engineering and philosophy could lead to innovation in engineering methods, design and education.
The volume is divided into reflections on practice, principles and process, each of which challenges prevalent assumptions and commitments within engineering and philosophy. The volume explores the ontological and epistemological dimensions of engineering and exposes the falsity of the commonly held belief that the field is simply the application of science knowledge to problem solving. Above all, the perspectives collected here demonstrate the value of a constructivedialogue between engineering and philosophy and show how collaboration between the disciplines casts light on longstanding problems from both sides.
The chapters in this volume are from a diverse and international body of authors, including philosophers and engineers, and represent a highly select group of papers originally presented in three different conferences. These are the 2008 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (WPE-2008) held at the Royal Academy of Engineering; the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT-2009) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands; and the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPET-2010), held in Golden, Colorado at the Colorado School of Mines.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy and Engineering: Reflections on Practice, Principles and Process
Editors: Diane P Michelfelder, Natasha McCarthy, David E. Goldberg
Series Title: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7762-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7761-3Published: 28 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0251-3Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7762-0Published: 13 January 2014
Series ISSN: 1879-7202
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 431
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Engineering, general, Science Education