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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, including ICT, genetics, and nanotechnology, designing of socio-technical systems, and on architectural and environmental designing. These essays are preceded by an introductory text structuring the field of philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture as one in which a series of similar philosophical, societal and ethical questions are asked. This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing. The emerging discipline of designing socio-technical systems is shown to form an intermediate between engineering and architecture to which the philosophical and ethical analyses of both domains apply. This volume thus announces a challenging cross-fertilization between the philosophy and ethics of engineering and of architecture that will lay down the integrated ground works for the renewed interests in the importance of design in modern society.
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Pieter E. Vermaas • Peter Kroes Andrew Light • Steven A. Moore
Philosophy and Design From Engineering to Architecture
Pieter E. Vermaas Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands
Peter Kroes Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands
Andrew Light University of Washington Seattle USA
Steven A. Moore University of Texas Austin USA
ISBN 978-1-4020-6590-3
e-ISBN 978-1-4020-6591-0
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List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Design in Engineering and Architecture: Towards an Integrated Philosophical Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore, and Pieter E. Vermaas
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Part I
Engineering Design
Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maarten Franssen
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Designing is the Construction of Use Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wybo Houkes
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The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don Ihde
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Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philip Brey
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Deciding on Ethical Issues in Engineering Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anke Van Gorp and Ibo Van de Poel
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Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter-Paul Verbeek
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Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Patrick Feng and Andrew Feenberg v
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Design Culture and Acceptable Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .