Philosophy for Engineering: Practice, Context, Ethics, Models, Failure

ISBN-13: 9789811512704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 124 str.

Priyan Dias; David Blockley

Spis treści

Introduction: Why Engineering needs Philosophy

The engineer’s identity crisis: Homo faber or homo sapiens?

Engineering as cyclic problem solving – Some insights from Karl Popper

Paradigms, Revolutions and Models: some insights from Thomas Kuhn for an Engineering Outlook

Aesthetics and Ethics in Engineering: Insights from Polanyi

Heidegger’s relevance for engineering

Heidegger’s resonance with engineering

Philosophical grounding and computational formalization for practice based engineering knowledge

Concluding thoughts

O autorze

Priyan Dias obtained a doctorate from Imperial College at the University of London and is now a Senior Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Moratuwa. He has been Head of Department from 2007 to 2010 and the inaugural Director of Research for the university from 2014 to 2017. He is a Fellow and currently Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences (Sri Lanka); and also an associate editor of the international journal Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems. His research interests span areas such as concrete technology, systems methods and engineering philosophy. A book of his on reinforced concrete design examples is widely used by students and structural engineers.