Rethinking Technology and Engineering Dialogues Across Disciplines and Geographies

This book gives insight into the ongoing work of the forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology (fPET), which brings together philosophers and engineers from all over the world to discuss philosophical issues of engineering across disciplinary boundaries. Drawing on presentations and conversati...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fritzsche, Albrecht (Editor), Santa-María, Andrés (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter. 1. Philosophy of Engineering as a dialogue across disciplines and geographies
  • Chapter. 2. Engineering Principles: Restoring Public Values in Professional Life
  • Chapter. 3, What Sort of Engineering do We Want? How Far are We From it? A Manifesto for Socially Situated Professional Ethics
  • Chapter. 4. Freedom and Standards in Engineering
  • Chapter 5. Past Designs as Repositories of Tacit Collective Knowledge
  • Chapter. 6. A Simondon-Deleuzean Characterization of Engineering Design
  • Chapter. 7. How modern coaching can help develop engineers and the profession—and how philosophy can help
  • Chapter. 8. What do overhead lines reveal?
  • Chapter. 9. AI, Control and Unintended consequences: the need for meta-values
  • Chapter. 10. Crowdsourcing a Moral Machine in a Pluralistic World
  • Chapter. 11. The potential of smart city controversies to foster civic engagement, ethical reflection and alternative imaginaries
  • Chapter.12. The problem of Digital Direct Democracy and its philosophical foundations
  • Chapter. 13. Agile as a Vehicle for Values: A Value Sensitive Design Toolkit
  • Chapter. 14. Who’s Talking? Influencers & the Economy of Taste
  • Chapter. 15. Portuguese Railway History and Kranzberg’s Laws: looking at the past, preparing the future
  • Chapter. 16. Interdisciplinary practices for the History of Solar Engineering in Chile
  • Chapter. 17. Science fiction and engineering: Between dystopias, (e)utopias, and uchronias
  • Chapter. 18. The Cost of Living” in a Technologized World
  • Chapter. 19. Unconcealing Contempoary Technology: Human Enhancement as Biopolitics of Vitality
  • Chapter. 20. What is Engineering Ethics Education? Exploring How the Education of Ethics is Defined by Engineering Instructions
  • Chapter. 21. 'Judgment' in Engineering Philosophical discussions and pedagogical opportunities
  • Chapter. 22. The Role of the Humanities in the Formation of Reflective Engineering Practitioners
  • Chapter. 23. The Amerindian Buen Vivir as a Paradigm for Another Possible Engineering Practice and Education
  • Chapter 24. Engineers should be activists