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  • Feedback Loops

    Pragmatism about Science and Technology

    by Anne C. Fitzpatrick, Ronald Laymon, Nicholas Rescher, Ivan Guajardo, Thomas Staley, Brandiff R. Caron, Peter Kroes, Joseph C. Pitt, Allan Franklin, James H. Collier ...
    Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
    In a world of information technologies, genetic engineering, controversies about established science, and the mysteries of quantum physics, it is at once seemingly impossible and absolutely vital to find ways to make sense of how science, technology, and society connect. In Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science & Technology, editors Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew bring together original ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Technical Artefacts: Creations of Mind and Matter

    A Philosophy of Engineering Design

    by Peter Kroes ...
    Series Book 6 - Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
    This book presents an attempt to understand the nature of technical artefacts and the way they come into being. Its primary focus is the kind of technical artefacts designed and produced by modern engineering. In spite of their pervasive influence on human thinking and doing, and therefore on the modern human condition, a philosophical analysis of technical artefacts and engineering design is ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Artefact Kinds

    Ontology and the Human-Made World

    Edited by Maarten Franssen, Peter Kroes, Thomas A.C. Reydon, Pieter E. Vermaas ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification. What it adds to previous discussions of these topics is that it addresses them with respect to human-made entities, that is, artefacts. As the chapters in the book show, questions of identity and classification require other treatments and lead to other answers ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn

    Edited by Maarten Franssen, Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Anthonie W.M. Meijers ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume features 16 essays on the philosophy of technology that discuss its identity, its position in philosophy in general, and the role of empirical studies in philosophical analyses of engineering ethics and engineering practices.This volume is published about fifteen years after Peter Kroes and Anthonie Meijers published a collection of papers under the title The empirical turn in the ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts

    Edited by Peter Kroes, Peter-Paul Verbeek ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors’ contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around technologies, and the moral significance of technology.The editors’ introduction explains that as ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The In-Discipline of Design

    Bridging the Gap Between Humanities and Engineering

    by Annie Gentes ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Design is a conceptive activity which is usually presented as a sensible, sequential process and action. This book claims that design cannot be reduced to the rational, effective planning and organization that most models (such as design thinking) present. The author suggests another type of rationality which is based on what the humanities call aesthetics, writing, composition, and style: a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda

    Edited by Ibo van de Poel, David E. Goldberg ...
    Series Book 2 - Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
    Whereas science, technology, and medicine have all called forth dedicated philosophical investigations, a fourth major contributor to the technoscientific world in which we all live - that is, engineering - has been accorded almost none of the philosophical attention it deserves. This volume thus offers a first characterisation of this important new field, by some of the primary philosophers and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World

    Edited by Colleen Murphy, Paolo Gardoni, Hassan Bashir, Charles E. Harris, Jr., Eyad Masad ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume identifies, discusses and addresses the wide array of ethical issues that have emerged for engineers due to the rise of a global economy. To date, there has been no systematic treatment of the particular challenges globalization poses for engineering ethics standards and education. This volume concentrates on precisely this challenge. Scholars and practitioners from diverse national ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Trimming, Miniaturization and Ideality via Convolution Technique of TRIZ

    A Guide to Lean and High-level Inventive Design

    by Saurabh Kwatra, Yuri Salamatov ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book is a valuable research tool-kit for innovators, amateur & professionals alike. Additionally, College & University faculties on Engineering, who organize yearly workshops internationally will find hundreds of novel themes to choose from. Some teachers might just secretly buy this book to introduce out-of-box brain-teasers in classroom to add fizz to normal (at times boring) lecturing.The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Philosophy and Engineering

    Exploring Boundaries, Expanding Connections

    Edited by Diane P. Michelfelder, Byron Newberry, Qin Zhu ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume, the result of an ongoing bridge building effort among engineers and humanists, addresses a variety of philosophical, ethical, and policy issues emanating from engineering and technology. Interwoven through its chapters are two themes, often held in tension with one another: “Exploring Boundaries” and “Expanding Connections.” “Expanding Connections” highlights contributions that look ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Engineering, Development and Philosophy

    American, Chinese and European Perspectives

    Edited by Yanming An, Bocong Li, Carl Mitcham, Steen Hyldgaard Christensen ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This inclusive, cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering, development, and culture. It offers diverse commentary from a range of disciplinary perspectives on how the philosophies of today’s cultural triumvirate—American, European and Chinese—are shaped and given nuance by the cross-fertilization of engineering and development. Scholars from the humanities and social sciences as ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Philosophical, Logical and Scientific Perspectives in Engineering

    by Zekâi Şen ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book highlights and explains the significance of philosophical, logical, and scientific principles for engineering education/training and engineering works. In so doing, it aims to help to rectify the neglect of philosophy and logic in current education and training programs, which emphasize analytical and numerical methods at the expense of the innovative practical and creative abilities so ... Read more

    $89.09 USD