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9780762307555

The Empirical Turn in the Philosophy of Technology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780762307555

  • ISBN10:

    0762307552

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-03-09
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

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Table of Contents

Series Editor's Note xiii
Guest Editors' Preface xv
Introduction: A Discipline in Search of Its Identity xvii
Peter Kroes
Anthonie Meijers
PART I GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE EMPIRICAL TURN
There's No Turn Like the Empirical Turn
3(16)
Arie Rip
Engineering Design and the Empirical Turn in the Philosophy of Technology
19(26)
Peter Kroes
To What Extent Should A Critical Philosophy of Technology Be Constructivist
45(22)
Bram Bos
PART II ONTOLOGY AND THE EMPIRICAL TURN
Object and Social Artifact in Engineering Design
67(14)
Louis L. Bucciarelli
The Relational Ontology of Technical Artifacts
81(18)
Anthonie W. M. Meijers
PART III EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE EMPIRICAL TURN
The Thing-Y-Ness of Things: Materiality and Spectrochemical Instrumentation, 1937-1955
99(20)
Davis Baird
Languages for Engineering Design: Empirical Constructs for Representing Objects and Articulating Processes
119(30)
Clive L. Dym
Philip Brey
Design Mistakes: The Case of the Hubble Space Telescope
149(18)
Joseph C. Pitt
PART IV ETHICS AND THE EMPIRICAL TURN
The Ethics of Engineers: From Occupational Role Responsibility to Public Co-Responsibility
167(26)
Carl Mitcham
Rene von Schomberg
A DIALOGUE ON ENGINEERING DESIGN AND LAW
Codes of Conduct, the Law, and Technological Design and Development
193(14)
Henk Zandvoort
Toward A Juridical Turn for the Ethics of Technology? An Aerospace Case
207(12)
Ad Vlot
Self Determination, Strict Liability, and Ethical Problems in Engineering
219(26)
Henk Zandvoort
Toward A Juridical Turn for the Ethics of Technology? Final Remarks
245(6)
Ad Vlot
Notes on Contributors 251(4)
Author Index 255

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