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Philosophy and Engineering: Reflections on Practice, Principles and Process

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    Chapter 1 The Ignorance of Engineers and How They Know It
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    Chapter 2 Rules of Skill: Ethics in Engineering
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    Chapter 3 Engineering as Performance: An “Experiential Gestalt” for Understanding Engineering
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    Chapter 4 The Formulation of Engineering Identities: Storytelling as Philosophical Inquiry
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    Chapter 5 Ove Arup: Theoretical and Moral Positions in Practice and the Origins of an Engineering Firm
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    Chapter 6 Transferable Skills Development in Engineering Students: Analysis of Service-Learning Impact
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    Chapter 7 Future Reflective Practitioners: The Contributions of Philosophy
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    Chapter 8 Fitting Engineering into Philosophy
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    Chapter 9 Engineering as Willing
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    Chapter 10 Debunking Contemporary Myths Concerning Engineering
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    Chapter 11 The Engineer’s Identity Crisis: Homo Faber or Homo Sapiens ?
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    Chapter 12 Varieties of Parthood: Ontology Learns from Engineering
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    Chapter 13 Engineered Artifacts
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    Chapter 14 Engineering Ethics: From Preventive Ethics to Aspirational Ethics
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    Chapter 15 Making the Case for the Inclusion of Lay Persons on Engineering Accreditation Panels: A Role for an Engineering Hippocratic Oath?
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    Chapter 16 Ethical Awareness in Chinese Professional Engineering Societies: Textual Research on Constitutions of Chinese Engineering Organizations
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    Chapter 17 Engineering for Peace: An Obligation of Professional Capabilities
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    Chapter 18 Roboethics and Telerobotic Weapons Systems
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    Chapter 19 Normative Crossover: The Ethos of Socio-technological Systems
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    Chapter 20 Translating Values into Design Requirements
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    Chapter 21 Engineering Hubris: Adam Smith and the Quest for the Perfect Machine
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    Chapter 22 The Technology of Collective Memory and the Normativity of Truth
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    Chapter 23 Plans for Modeling Rational Acceptance of Technology
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    Chapter 24 On the Epistemology of Breakthrough Innovation: The Orthogonal and Non-linear Natures of Discovery
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    Chapter 25 Uncertainty in the Design of Non-prototypical Engineered Systems
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    Chapter 26 Object-Oriented Method and the Relationship Between Structure and Function of Technical Artifacts
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    Chapter 27 The Methodological Ladder of Industrialised Inventions: A Description-Based and Explanation-Enhanced Prescriptive Model
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    Chapter 28 On the Feasibility of Nanotechnology: A Chinese Perspective
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    Chapter 29 Engineering Innovation: Energy, Policy, and the Role of Engineering
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    Chapter 30 Is Engineering Philosophically Weak?
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Title
Philosophy and Engineering: Reflections on Practice, Principles and Process
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, January 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7762-0
ISBNs
978-9-40-077762-0, 978-9-40-077761-3
Editors

Michelfelder, Diane P, McCarthy, Natasha, Goldberg, David E.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 77 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 4%
Researcher 2 3%
Student > Master 1 1%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 63 82%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 4 5%
Computer Science 3 4%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 1%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 63 82%