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Book SynopsisQuestions how much disburdenment will be appropriate while still permitting an engagement that enriches one's life, elevates the spirit, and calls forth a good life in a convivial society?
Trade Review“This genuinely original book contributes significantly to contemporary efforts to rethink the human-made world through an extended engagement with the philosophical examinations of technology found in the work of Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feenberg, Jürgen Habermas, and others. It constitutes a thoughtful, reflective engineer’s effort to deepen engineering and engineering education discussion in ways that go beyond apology or promotion. It will be of value not only to those in engineering, engineering studies, and the philosophy of technology, but also to historians of technology, to science and technology studies scholars, and to any informed citizen concerned about the future shape and character of our technoscientific world. I recommend it for all of us.”
—Carl Mitcham,Colorado School of Mines
“I think this will make a major contribution to the sub-field of philosophy of technology that devotes itself to the philosophy of engineering—which I think ought to be the heart of philosophy of technology. Up to now there has been almost nothing available in that field. And it is a unique and original interpretation from within the engineering profession.”
—Paul Durbin,University of Delaware
“He does an admirable job in considering the contributions of engineering within a philosophical and ethical perspective. The book has a good index.”
—N. Sadanand Choice
Table of ContentsContents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Modern Engineering Enterprise
1. Process
2. Process Ethics
3. Colonization
Part II: The Premodern Engineering Endeavor
4 Person
5. Virtue Ethics
6. Contextualization
Part III: The Focal Engineering Venture
7. Product
8. Material Ethics
9. Balance
Index
