Philosophy and design from engineering to architecture /

This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, includi...

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Other Authors: Vermaas, Pieter E., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: [Dordrecht] : Springer, ©2008.
[Dordrecht] : [2008]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 359 pages) : illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Engineering Design
  • Design in Engineering and Architecture: Towards an Integrated Philosophical Understanding
  • Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts
  • Designing is the Construction of Use Plans
  • The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination
  • Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process
  • Deciding on Ethical Issues in Engineering Design
  • Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts
  • Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process
  • Design Culture and Acceptable Risk
  • Alienability, Rivalry, and Exclusion Cost: Three Institutional Factors for Design
  • Emerging Engineering Design
  • Friends by Design: A Design Philosophy for Personal Robotics Technology
  • Beyond Engineering: Software Design as Bridge over the Culture/Technology Dichotomy
  • Technology Naturalized: A Challenge to Design for the Human Scale
  • Re-Designing Humankind: The Rise of Cyborgs, a Desirable Goal?
  • Designing People: A Post-Human Future?
  • Redesigning Man?
  • Design: Structure, Process, and Function: A Systems Methodology Perspective
  • Co-Designing Social Systems by Designing Technical Artifacts: A Conceptual Approach
  • Beyond Inevitability: Emphasizing the Role of Intention and Ethical Responsibility in Engineering Design
  • Design and Responsibility: The Interdependence of Natural, Artifactual, and Human Systems
  • Architectural Design
  • Form and Process in the Transformation of the Architect's Role in Society
  • Expert Culture, Representation, and Public Choice : Architectural Renderings as the Editing of Reality
  • Diverse Designing: Sorting Out Function and Intention in Artifacts
  • Design Criteria in Architecture
  • Cities, Aesthetics, and Human Community: Some Thoughts on the Limits of Design
  • Nature, Aesthetic Values, and Urban Design: Building the Natural City.