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Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering - Couverture souple

Mitcham, Carl

 
9781786611277: Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1786611279 ISBN 13 : 9781786611277
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Carl Mitcham is International Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Technology at Renmin University of China and Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines. His publications include Thinking through Technology (1994), and Ethics and Science: An Introduction (2012, with Adam Briggle).

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield International
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1786611279
ISBN 13 
9781786611277
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
466
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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