The Future of Engineering Philosophical Foundations, Ethical Problems and Application Cases /

In a world permeated by digital technology, engineering is involved in every aspect of human life. Engineers address a wider range of design problems than ever before, raising new questions and challenges regarding their work, as boundaries between engineering, management, politics, education and ar...

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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 31
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ISBN:9783319910291
ISSN:1879-7202 ;
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Translations of technology and the future of engineering - an introduction
  • 2. "The One, the Few or the Many?": Using Independence as a Strategy in Engineering Development and Modeling
  • 3. Practical Inference-a Formal Analysis
  • 4. Intuition and Ineffability: Tacit Knowledge and Engineering Design
  • 5. The Engineering Knowledge Research Program
  • 6. Philosophy of Engineering and the Quest for a Novel Notion of Experimentation
  • 7. Demarcating Simulation
  • 8. Three Stages of Technical Artifacts' Life Cycle: Based on a Four Factors Theory
  • 9. Métis: Reconfiguring the Philosophy of Engineering
  • 10. Thorstein B. Veblen's Philosophy of Technology and Modern Capitalism
  • 11. Energy technologies and human well-being. Using sustainable design for the energy transition
  • 12. Technology, Society, and Survival
  • 13. Manufacturing with a big M - The Grand Challenges of Engineering in Digital Societies
  • 14. Fostering Subjectivity in Engineering Education: Philosophical Framework and Pedagogical Strategies
  • 15. Managing the State of the Art of Engineering: Learning from Medicine
  • 16. What Ethics Owes Engineering
  • 17. New Trends in Engineering Ethics - A Japanese Perspective
  • 18. Nietzsche, Postphenomenology, and Nihilism-Technology Relations
  • 19. Assisting Ourselves to Death - A philosophical reflection on lifting a finger with advanced assistive systems
  • 20. Engineering for the Other: An Existential Examination of the Engineer's Role in Privacy by Design.