Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda
Whereas science, technology, and medicine have all called forth dedicated philosophical investigations, a fourth major contributor to the technoscientific world in which we all live - that is, engineering - has been accorded almost none of the philosophic
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Philosophy of Engineering and Technology VOLUME 2
Editor-in-chief Pieter E. Vermaas (Delft University of Technology): analytic research, general topics and overarching topics
Associated Editors David E. Goldberg (University of Illinois): practitioners’ research Ibo van de Poel (Delft University of Technology): ethics of engineering and technology Evan Selinger (Rochester Institute of Technology): research in continental philosophy and science and technology studies
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/8657
Ibo van de Poel · David E. Goldberg Editors Associate Editors Michael Davis, Billy Vaughn Koen, Carl Mitcham, P. Aarne Vesilind
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Editors Ibo van de Poel Department of Philosophy School of Technology Policy and Management Delft University of Technology PO Box 5015 2600 GA Delft The Netherlands [email protected]
David E. Goldberg Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 117 Transportation Building 104 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-2803-7 e-ISBN 978-90-481-2804-4 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2804-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009935897 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
1 Philosophy and Engineering: Setting the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . Ibo van de Poel Part I
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Philosophy
2 Distinguishing Architects from Engineers: A Pilot Study in Differences Between Engineers and Other Technologists . . . . . . Michael Davis
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3 The Rise of Philosophy of Engineering in the East and the West . . Li Bo-cong
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4 Multiple Facets of Philosophy and Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . Paul T. Durbin
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5 Comparing Approaches to the Philosophy of Engineering: Including the Linguistic Philosophical Approach . . . . . . . . . . Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey
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6 Focussing Philosophy of Engineering: Analyses of Technical Functions and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pieter E. Vermaas
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7 Philosophy, Engineering, and the Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph C. Pitt 8 Engineering Science as a “Discipline of the Particular”? Types of Generalization in Engineering Sciences . . . . . . . . . . Marc J. de Vries 9 How the Models of Engineering Tell the Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . Zachary Pirtle 10
Limits to Systems Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maarten M. Ottens
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Part II
Ethics
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Integrity and the Ethical Respon
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