Engineering and Philosophy
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-70098-0 (ISBN)
Engineers love to build "things" and have an innate sense of wanting to help society. However, these desires are often not connected or developed through reflections on the complexities of philosophy, biology, economics, politics, environment, and culture. To guide future efforts and to best bring about human flourishment and a just world, Engineering and Philosophy: Reimagining Technology and Progress brings together practitioners and scholars to inspire deeper conversations on the nature and varieties of engineering. The perspectives in this book are an act of reimagination: how does engineering serve society, and in a vital sense, how should it.
Zachary Pirtle is a program integration engineer at NASA headquarters. His work supports integration for the Space Launch System, Orion spacecraft and associated ground systems. Pirtle earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering, B.A. in philosophy, and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering, all from Arizona State University. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. in systems engineering at George Washington University. Previously, he studied in Mexico as a Fulbright scholar and served as a Christine Mirzayan fellow at the National Academy of Engineering. His contributions have ranged from developing a framework for assessing independence among multiple models to help mitigate uncertainty, exploring the difference between scientific and engineering models as well as studying the relationship between law- and non-law-based epistemologies and perceived views on engineering and innovation policy. Separately, he has also researched what role of democratically determined values should have in engineering, including efforts to use public input in engineering decisions. David Tomblin is director of science, technology and society program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned a B.S. in biology from Old Dominion University, M.S. in biology from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in science and technology studies from Virginia Tech. Tomblin's research interests lie in the governance of and public engagement with emerging technologies. He works with a consortium of universities, science museums, and non-profits called Expert and Citizen Assessment of Technology (ECAST) to develop public engagement exercises for government agencies such as NASA, Department of Energy, and NOAA. Recent projects have centered on asteroid exploration, nuclear energy, autonomous vehicles, climate engineering, and the Internet of Things. Guru Madhavan is a senior program officer and director of studies at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where his portfolio of work has applied engineering tools of systems analysis to inform and advice public policy, notably in public health (vaccines, infectious diseases) and health care services (prescription drugs, chronic diseases). He has worked in the medical device industry as a research scientist developing cardiac surgical catheters for ablation therapy, and has served as an adviser or consultant to government agencies, start-ups, and nonprofits. A systems engineer by background, Madhavan received his M.S. and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and an M.B.A. from the State University of New York. He has served as a vice-president and member of the board of directors of IEEE-USA of IEEE, the world's largest society for engineering and technology. Among numerous honors, he has been named a distinguished young scientist by the World Economic Forum and is a recipient of many professional achievement awards in engineering and technology. Madhavan has co-edited seven books (two for Springer), and is author of Applied Minds: How Engineers Think (W.W. Norton) that has been translated into many languages. He is a frequent lecturer in communities and colleges on the social aspects of engineering.
Chapter 1. Reimagining Conceptions of Technological and Societal Progress (Zachary Pirtle, David Tomblin, and Guru Madhavan).- Section IA. Technological Progress: Reimagining How Engineering Relates to the Sciences. Chapter 2. Engineering Design Principles in Natural and Artificial Systems. Part I: Generative Entrenchment and Modularity (William C. Wimsatt).- Chapter 3. Technological Progress in the Life Sciences (Janella Baxter).- Section 1B: Technological Progress: Re-imagining Engineering Knowledge. Chapter 4. Philosophical Observations and Applications in Systems and Aerospace Engineering (Stephen B. Johnson).- Chapter 5. Prehistoric Stone Tool Technology and Epistemic Complexity (Manjari Chakraborty).- Chapter 6. Narrative and Epistemic Positioning: The Case of the Dandelion Pilot (Dominic J. Berry).- Section 2A. Social Progress: Considering Engineers' Ethical Principles. Chapter 7. Constructing Situated and Social Knowledge: Ethical, Sociological, and Phenomenological Factors in Technological Design (Damien Patrick Williams).- Chapter 8. Towards an Engineering Ethics with Non-engineers: How Western Engineering Ethics May Learn from Taiwan (Bono Po-Jen Shih).- Chapter 9. Broadening Engineering Identity: Moving beyond Problem Solving (Thomas Siller, Gerry Johnson, and Russell Korte).- Section 2B. Reimagining values and culture in engineering and engineered systems. Chapter 10. Engineering, Judgement and Engineering Judgement: A Proposed Definition (Daniel McLaughlin, PE).- Chapter 11. Technology, Uncertainty, and the Good Life: A Stoic Perspective (Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Nikl).- Section 3A. Re-imagining how engineering relates to complex sociotechnical systems. Chapter 12. The Impact of Robot Companions on the Moral Development of Children (Yvette Pearson and Jason Borenstein).- Chapter 13. Engineering Our Selves: Morphological Freedom and the Myth of Multiplicity (Joshua Earle).- Section 3B: Reimagining Social Progress in Democracy, and the need to Align Engineering to Social Values. Chapter 14. Shared Learning to Explore the Philosophies, Policies and Practices of Engineering: The Case of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (Rider W. Foley and Elise Barrella).- Chapter 15. Middle Grounds: Art and Pluralism (Caitlin Foley and Misha Rabinovich).- Chapter 16. The Artefact on Stage - Object Theatre and Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (Albrecht Fritzsche).- Chapter 17. Imagined Systems: How the Speculative Novel Infomocracy offers a Simulation of the Relationship between Democracy, Technology, and Society (Malka Older and Zachary Pirtle).- Section 4. Provocative Conclusion. Chapter 18. The Discrete Scaffold for Generic Design, an Interdisciplinary Craft Work for the Future (Ira Monarch, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Anne-Françoise Schmid, and Muriel Mambrini-Doudet).
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Philosophy of Engineering and Technology |
| Zusatzinfo | IX, 376 p. 35 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 739 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Technik | |
| Schlagworte | Art Engineering • artificial intelligence moral issues • crosscultural studies engineering ethics • Cyborg Ethics • design engineering systems • Engineering design principles • Engineering Ethics • ethics engineering design • Ethics technology design • identity engineers engineering • Phenomenology technology design • Philosophy Education Engineer • philosophy engineering technology • policy engineering • Prehistory technology philosophy • privacy information control • Sociology technology design • Stoics Engineering • Taiwan Engineer |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-70098-4 / 3030700984 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-70098-0 / 9783030700980 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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