Philosophy of Engineering

W.R. Bowen, Promoting a culture of peace within engineering—engineering for the promotion of a culture of peace. Abstracts of the 2008 workshop on philosophy of engineering, RAE, London, pp. 57-58... 

Cech, E. A. (2013). The (Mis)framing of social justice Why ideologies of depoliticization and meritocracy hinder engineers ability to think about social injustices. In J. Lucena (Ed.), Engineering education for social justice Critical explorations and opportunities, philosophy of engineering. Dordrecht Springer. 

Philosophy of engineering, engineering ethics and engineering education Ibo van de Poel, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Ethics of technology and engineering ethics... 

Construction of a philosophy of engineering, driven by the desire for improvements in education, has occupied several engineers, educators and philosophers. (Heywood, 2011 Heywood etai, 2011)... 

Heywood, J. (2011) A Historical Overview of Recent Developments in the Search for a Philosophy of Engineering Education. Proceedings of the Philosophy of Engineering and Engineering Education, 12-15 October 2011, Rapid City, SD, USA. 

Goldman, S. L. (2004) Why we need a philosophy of engineering A work in progress. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 29 (2), 163-176. 

Philosophy of science has an active role in the scientific studies since the science became independently spelled out from the philosophy during the renaissance period. In the last decades, through patent institutions, philosophy of technology started to ripen, and there are many articles in the literature about such aspects [8, 15, 21]. However, philosophy of engineering is a very recent debate in the world, since the last several years [4]. Hence, philosophy of science is an overlooked or delayed aspect for systematic engineering creative thinking. This... 

After aU that has been explained above, one can understand that philosophy of engineering is a virgin topic at the verge of development and there is no commonly agreed set of fundamentals, principles and rules for the definition of this field. It is within the context of this book to propose such a set of items, which can be elaborated in the future. 

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