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Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering - Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays (Paperback)
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Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering - Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays (Paperback)
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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.
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