Philosophy for engineering : practice, context, ethics, models, failure /: practice, context, ethics, models, failure. (©2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Priyan Dias.
• Other Names: Dias, Priyan
• Contents: Intro; Foreword; Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction: From Engineering to Philosophy; 1.1 What Defines Engineering? Practice, Context, Ethics, Models, Failure; 1.2 Which Philosophers Do We Turn to? Popper, Kuhn, Polanyi, Heidegger; 1.3 How Is This Book Engineered?; 1.4 Summary; References; 2 Are Engineers Makers or Thinkers?; 2.1 Do Engineers Have an Identity Crisis?; 2.2 The Engineer's Influence: More Harm Than Good?; 2.3 The Engineer's Role: Scientist or Manager?; 2.4 The Engineer's Knowledge: Theoretical or Practical?; 2.5 Formalizing Practice; 2.6 Summary; References 3 Are Failures the Pillars of Success?3.1 All Life Is Problem Solving; 3.2 Popper's Problem Solving Methodology; 3.3 Extending the Methodology; 3.4 Cyclic Engineering Processes; 3.5 The Role of Failure in Engineering; 3.6 Failures in Various Components of the CPM; 3.7 The Genetic Algorithm for Optimization and Design; 3.8 Summary; References; 4 Will Any Old Model Do?; 4.1 Paradigms and Revolutions; 4.2 Normal Science Within the Ruling Paradigm; 4.3 Scientific Revolutions and Progress; 4.3.1 The Nature of Revolutions; 4.3.2 A Different World; 4.3.3 Progress Through Revolutions 4.4 Revolutions in Structural Design4.4.1 Some Historical Revolutions; 4.4.2 The Plastic Design Revolution; 4.4.3 Relativity and Progress of Knowledge; 4.5 Engineering Models; 4.6 Summary; References; 5 Shared Values for Aesthetics and Ethics?; 5.1 Can Values Be Measured?; 5.2 What Is an Elegant Solution?; 5.3 Differing Views of Aesthetics; 5.4 An Example of the Aesthetics of Proportion; 5.5 Morality and Faith; 5.6 Engineering Ethics; 5.7 The Engineer, the Public and the Professional Institution; 5.8 Summary; References; 6 Is Technology Neutral?; 6.1 Suspicion and Questioning 6.2 Technology and 'Enframing'6.3 Art and Poetry; 6.4 Questioning in Engineering Practice; 6.5 Ethics and Metaphor; 6.6 Two Caveats; 6.7 Summary; References; 7 Is Knowledge Acquired by Thinking or Doing?; 7.1 Being and Time; 7.2 The Primacy of Practice Over Theory; 7.3 The Engineer's Existential Role; 7.4 Engineering in Time; 7.5 From Average Everydayness to Existential Pleasure in Engineering; 7.6 Summary; References; 8 Can Practice Based Knowledge Be Formalized?; 8.1 Practice Based Knowledge; 8.2 Michael Polanyi: Tacit Knowing; 8.3 Martin Heidegger: Pre-theoretical Shared Practices 8.4 Categories of Practice Based Knowledge8.5 Practice Based Knowledge Modelling: Examples; 8.5.1 Modelling Tacit Knowledge: Construction Bid Decisions; 8.5.2 Modelling Shared Practice: Layout Design; 8.5.3 Cognitivist Modelling: Expert System for Cracks in Concrete; 8.5.4 Modelling Horizontal Knowledge: Vulnerability of Buildings to Bomb Blast; 8.6 Polanyi, Heidegger and Artificial Intelligence; 8.7 Summary; References; 9 Conclusion: From Philosophy to Engineering; 9.1 Looking Back; 9.1.1 The Path We Have Taken; 9.1.2 Practice; 9.1.3 Context; 9.1.4 Ethics; 9.1.5 Models; 9.1.6 Failure
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 620.001; Engineering -- Philosophy; Engineering -- Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811512711; 9789811512728; 9811512728
• Related ISBNs: 981151271X; 9811512701; 9789811512704
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