ISBN:
9783319161723
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXXIV, 416 p. 18 illus, online resource)
Series Statement:
Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 21
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Engineering education and practice in context ; volume 2: Engineering identities, epistemologies and values
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
;
Genetic epistemology
;
Ethics
;
Technology Philosophy
;
Engineering design
;
Philosophy
;
Technik
;
Ausbildung
;
Philosophie
Abstract:
This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies, and values. Key overlapping questions examine such issues as an engineering identity, engineering self-understandings enacted in the professional world, distinctive characters of engineering knowledge, and how engineering science and engineering design interact in practice. Authors bring with them perspectives from their institutional homes in Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia. The volume includes 24 contributions by more than 30 authors from engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. Additional issues the chapters scrutinize include prominent norms of engineering, how they interact with the values of efficiency or environmental sustainability. A concluding set of articles considers the meaning of context more generally by asking if engineers create their own contexts or are they created by contexts. Taken as a whole, this collection of original scholarly work is unique in its broad, multidisciplinary consideration of the changing character of engineering practice
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-16172-3
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Permalink
