Philosophy and Design From Engineering to Architecture
This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on de
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Pieter E. Vermaas • Peter Kroes Andrew Light • Steven A. Moore
Philosophy and Design From Engineering to Architecture
Pieter E. Vermaas Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands
Peter Kroes Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands
Andrew Light University of Washington Seattle USA
Steven A. Moore University of Texas Austin USA
ISBN 978-1-4020-6590-3
e-ISBN 978-1-4020-6591-0
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Contents
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Design in Engineering and Architecture: Towards an Integrated Philosophical Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore, and Pieter E. Vermaas
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Part I Engineering Design Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maarten Franssen
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Designing is the Construction of Use Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wybo Houkes
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The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don Ihde
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Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philip Brey
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Deciding on Ethical Issues in Engineering Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anke Van Gorp and Ibo Van de Poel
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Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter-Paul Verbeek
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Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Patrick Feng and Andrew Feenberg v
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Design Culture and Acceptable Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Kiyotaka Naoe Alienability, Rivalry, and Exclusion Cost: Three Institutional Factors for Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Paul B. Thompson Part II Emerging Engineering Design Friends by Design: A Design Philosophy for Personal Robotics Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 John P. Sullins Beyond Engineering: Software Design as Bridge over the Culture/Technology Dichotomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Bernhard Rieder and Mirko Tobias Schäfer Technology Naturalized: A Challenge to Design for the Human
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