Philosophy and Engineering:: An Emerging Agenda

360 Pages·2010·2 MB·English

by  Ibo van de Poel (auth.)

Philosophy and Engineering
Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
VOLUME2
Editor-in-chief
PieterE.Vermaas(DelftUniversityofTechnology):analyticresearch,general
topicsandoverarchingtopics
AssociatedEditors
DavidE.Goldberg(UniversityofIllinois):practitioners’research
IbovandePoel(DelftUniversityofTechnology):ethicsofengineering
andtechnology
EvanSelinger(RochesterInstituteofTechnology):researchincontinental
philosophyandscienceandtechnologystudies
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Ibo van de Poel David E. Goldberg
Editors
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Carl Mitcham, P. Aarne Vesilind
Philosophy and Engineering
An Emerging Agenda
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Editors
IbovandePoel DavidE.Goldberg
DepartmentofPhilosophy DepartmentofIndustrialandEnterprise
SchoolofTechnologyPolicyand SystemsEngineering
Management UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,
DelftUniversityofTechnology 117TransportationBuilding
POBox5015 104S.MathewsAvenue
2600GADelft Urbana,IL61801USA
TheNetherlands [email protected]
[email protected]
ISBN978-90-481-2803-7 e-ISBN978-90-481-2804-4
DOI10.1007/978-90-481-2804-4
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Contents
1 PhilosophyandEngineering:SettingtheStage . . . . . . . . . . . 1
IbovandePoel
PartI Philosophy
2 DistinguishingArchitectsfromEngineers:APilotStudyin
DifferencesBetweenEngineersandOtherTechnologists . . . . . . 15
MichaelDavis
3 TheRiseofPhilosophyofEngineeringintheEastandtheWest . . 31
LiBo-cong
4 MultipleFacetsofPhilosophyandEngineering . . . . . . . . . . . 41
PaulT.Durbin
5 ComparingApproachestothePhilosophyofEngineering:
IncludingtheLinguisticPhilosophicalApproach . . . . . . . . . . 49
CarlMitchamandRobertMackey
6 Focussing Philosophy of Engineering:
AnalysesofTechnicalFunctionsandBeyond. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
PieterE.Vermaas
7 Philosophy,Engineering,andtheSciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
JosephC.Pitt
8 EngineeringScienceasa“DisciplineoftheParticular”?
TypesofGeneralizationinEngineeringSciences . . . . . . . . . . 83
MarcJ.deVries
9 HowtheModelsofEngineeringTelltheTruth . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
ZacharyPirtle
10 LimitstoSystemsEngineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
MaartenM.Ottens
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PartII Ethics
11 IntegrityandtheEthicalResponsibilitiesofEngineers . . . . . . . 125
AlastairS.Gunn
12 PrioritisingPeople:OutlineofanAspirationalEngineeringEthic . 135
W.RichardBowen
13 EthicalPrinciplesforEngineersinaGlobalEnvironment . . . . . 147
HeinzC.Luegenbiehl
14 ProfessionalEthicsWithoutaProfession:AFrenchView
onEngineeringEthics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
ChristelleDidier
15 Imagining Worlds: Responsible Engineering Under
ConditionsofEpistemicOpacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
MarkCoeckelbergh
16 TransferringResponsibilityThroughUsePlans . . . . . . . . . . . 189
AukePols
17 DesignProblemsandEthics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
WadeRobison
18 EthicsinInnovation:CooperationandTension . . . . . . . . . . . 215
MerledeKreuk,IbovandePoel,SjoerdD.Zwart,and
MarkC.M.vanLoosdrecht
19 Teaching Ethics toEngineering Students: From Clean
ConceptstoDirtyTricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
OttoKroesenandSybrandvanderZwaag
20 ACollaborativePlatformforExperimentsinEthics
andTechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
PeterDanielson
PartIII Reflection
21 WhyPhilosophy?WhyNow?EngineeringRespondstothe
CrisisofaCreativeEra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
DavidE.Goldberg
22 AWorldofThingsNotFacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
NatashaMcCarthy
23 ArchitectingEngineeringSystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
JoelMoses
24 BitsDon’tHaveErrorBars:UpwardConceptualization
andDownwardApproximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
RussAbbott
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25 MetaphysicsofEngineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
TaftH.Broome
26 EngineeringDeterminacy:TheExclusivenessofTechnology
andthePresenceoftheIndeterminate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
AlbrechtFritzsche
27 Quo Vadis, Humans? Engineering the Survival of the
HumanSpecies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
BillyVaughnKoen
28 TheFocalEngineeringExperience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
GeneMoriarty
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Contributors
RussAbbott DepartmentofComputerScience,CaliforniaStateUniversity,Los
Angeles,CA,USA,[email protected]
LiBo-cong DepartmentofSocialSciences,GraduateUniversityofChinese
AcademyofSciences,Beijing,China,[email protected]
W.RichardBowen i-NewtonWales,Caswell,Swansea,UK,
[email protected]
TaftH.Broome HowardUniversity,Washington,DC,USA,
[email protected]
MarkCoeckelbergh DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofTwente,Enschede,
TheNetherlands,[email protected]
PeterDanielson UniversityofBritishColumbia,CentreforAppliedEthics,
Vancouver,BC,Canada,[email protected]
MichaelDavis CenterfortheStudyofEthicsintheProfessions,IllinoisInstitute
ofTechnology,Chicago,IL,USA,[email protected]
MerledeKreuk SchoolofAppliedScience,DepartmentofBiotechnology,TU
Delft,Delft,TheNetherlands,[email protected]
MarcJ.deVries EindhovenUniversityofTechnology,Eindhoven;Delft
UniversityofTechnology,Delft,TheNetherlands,[email protected]
ChristelleDidier Départementd’éthique,UniversitéCatholiquedeLille,France,
[email protected]
PaulT.Durbin PhilosophyDepartmentandCenterforEnergyandEnvironmental
Policy,UniversityofDelaware,Newark,DE,USA,[email protected]
AlbrechtFritzsche TUDarmstadt,Fachbereich2,InstitutfuerPhilosophie,
Schloss,Darmstadt,Germany,[email protected]
DavidE.Goldberg DepartmentofIndustrialandEnterpriseSystemsEngineering,
UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,Urbana,IL,USA,[email protected]
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AlastairS.Gunn DepartmentofPhilosophyandReligiousStudies,University
ofWaikato,Hamilton,NewZealand,[email protected]
BillyVaughnKoen TheUniversityofTexas/Austin,TX,USA,
[email protected]
OttoKroesen DepartmentofPhilosophy,TUDelft,TheDelft,TheNetherlands,
[email protected]
HeinzC.Luegenbiehl Rose-HulmanInstituteofTechnology,TerreHaute,IN,
USA,[email protected]
RobertMackey Radford,VA,USA
NatashaMcCarthy TheRoyalAcademyofEngineering,CarltonHouseTerrace,
London,UK,[email protected]
CarlMitcham LiberalArtsandInternationalStudies,ColoradoSchoolofMines,
Golden,CO,USA,[email protected]
GeneMoriarty DepartmentofElectricalEngineering,SanJoseStateUniversity,
SanJosé,California,USA,[email protected]
JoelMoses EngineeringSystemsDivisionandElectricalEngineeringand
ComputerScienceDepartment,MIT,Cambridge,Massachusetts,USA,
[email protected]
MaartenM.Ottens DelftUniversityofTechnology,Delft,TheNetherlands;
JohnsHopkinsUniversity,Baltimore,MD,USA,[email protected]
ZacharyPirtle ConsortiumforScience,PolicyandOutcomes,CenterforEarth
SystemsEngineeringandManagement,ArizonaStateUniversity,Tempe,Arizona,
USA,[email protected]
JosephC.Pitt PhilosophyandofScienceandTechnologyStudies,VirginiaTech,
Virginia,USA,[email protected]
AukePols DepartmentofIE&IS,SectionofPhilosophyandEthics,Eindhoven
UniversityofTechnology,Eindhoven,TheNetherlands,[email protected]
WadeRobison RochesterInstituteofTechnology,Rochester,NY,USA,
[email protected]
IbovandePoel SchoolofTechnology,PolicyandManagement,Departmentof
Philosophy,TUDelft,Delft,TheNetherlands,[email protected]
SybrandvanderZwaag DelftUniversityofTechnology,Delft,TheNetherlands,
[email protected]
MarkC.M.vanLoosdrecht SchoolofAppliedScience,Departmentof
Biotechnology,TUDelft,Delft,TheNetherlands,[email protected]