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Author(s): Priyan Dias

Publication date (Print): 1 December 2020

Journal: Prometheus

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Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50022063

Journal ID (jcode): prometheus

Title: Prometheus

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN: 0810-9028

ISSN: 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): 1 December 2020

Volume: 36

Issue: 4 ( doiID: 10.13169/prometheus.36.issue-4 )

Pages: 396-402

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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa 10400, Sri Lanka. priyan@ 123456uom.lk

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Publisher ID: prometheus.36.4.0396

DOI: 10.13169/prometheus.36.4.0396

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Steps Toward a Philosophy of Engineering: Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays by Carl Mitcham (2020) 445pp., £130 (hardback) £35 (paperback) Rowman & Littlefield, London, ISBN 978-1-78661-126-0

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Blockley, D. (2020) Building Bridges between Theory and Practice, World Scientific, London.
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Davis, M. (1998) Thinking like an Engineer: Studies in the Ethics of a Profession, Oxford University Press, New York.
De Neufville, R. and Scholtes, S. (2011) Flexibility in Engineering Design, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
Dias, P. (2014) ‘The disciplines of engineering and history: some common ground’, Science and Engineering Ethics, 20, 2, pp.539–49.
Dias, P. (2019) Philosophy for Engineering: Practice, Context, Ethics, Models, Failure, Springer Nature, Singapore.
Dias, W.P.S. (1994) ‘Structural failures and design philosophy’, Structural Engineer, 72, 2, pp.25–9.
Dias, W.P.S. (2006) ‘Heidegger's resonance with engineering: the primacy of practice’, Science and Engineering Ethics, 12, 3, pp.523–32.
Dym, C. and Little, P. (1999) Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction, Wiley, New York.
Florman, S. (1994) The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, St Martin's Press, New York.
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Herkert, J. (2001) ‘Future directions in engineering ethics research: microethics, macroethics and the role of professional societies’, Science and Engineering Ethics, 7, 3, pp.403–14.
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Mitcham, C. (1994) Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy, Chicago University Press, Chicago.
Petroski, H. (1969) To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, St Martin's Press, New York.
Simon, H. (1996) The Sciences of the Artificial, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
Vincenti, W. (1990) What Engineers Know and How they Know it: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Wimsatt, W. (2007) Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA.

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[1] Aristotle (2000) Nicomachean Ethics, ed. Crisp, R., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

[2] Blockley, D. (2010) ‘The importance of being process’, Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems 27, 3, pp.189–99.

[3] Blockley, D. (2020) Building Bridges between Theory and Practice, World Scientific, London.

[4] Cook, S. (1995) ‘The structure of technological revolutions and the Gutenberg myth’ in Pitt, J. (ed.) New Directions in the Philosophy of Technology, Springer, Dordrecht.

[5] Coyne, R. (1995) Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

[6] Davis, M. (1998) Thinking like an Engineer: Studies in the Ethics of a Profession, Oxford University Press, New York.

[7] De Neufville, R. and Scholtes, S. (2011) Flexibility in Engineering Design, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

[8] Dias, P. (2014) ‘The disciplines of engineering and history: some common ground’, Science and Engineering Ethics, 20, 2, pp.539–49.

[9] Dias, P. (2019) Philosophy for Engineering: Practice, Context, Ethics, Models, Failure, Springer Nature, Singapore.

[10] Dias, W.P.S. (1994) ‘Structural failures and design philosophy’, Structural Engineer, 72, 2, pp.25–9.

[11] Dias, W.P.S. (2006) ‘Heidegger's resonance with engineering: the primacy of practice’, Science and Engineering Ethics, 12, 3, pp.523–32.

[12] Dym, C. and Little, P. (1999) Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction, Wiley, New York.

[13] Florman, S. (1994) The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, St Martin's Press, New York.

[14] Goldman, S. (2018) ‘Compromised exactness and the rationality of engineering’ in Garcia-Diaz, C. and Olaya, C. (eds) Social Systems Engineering: The Design of Complexity, Wiley, Oxford, pp.13–29.

[15] Herkert, J. (2001) ‘Future directions in engineering ethics research: microethics, macroethics and the role of professional societies’, Science and Engineering Ethics, 7, 3, pp.403–14.

[16] Howarth, D. (2013) Law as Engineering: Thinking about What Lawyers Do, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

[17] Jaspers, K. (1953) Origin and Goal of History (Bullock, M. trans.), Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.

[18] Joy, B. (2000) ‘Why the future doesn't need us’, Wired, 8, 4, pp.238–62.

[19] Koen, B. (1985) Definition of the Engineering Method, American Society for Engineering Education, Washington DC.

[20] Li, B. (2008) ‘Categorical imperative ethics and coordinated ethics: the 4th discussion on engineering ethics’, Studies in Ethics, 5, pp.42–8.

[21] Long, C. (2002) ‘The ontological reappropriation of phronesis’, Continental Philosophy Review, 35, pp.35–60.

[22] Mitcham, C. (1994) Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy, Chicago University Press, Chicago.

[23] Petroski, H. (1969) To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, St Martin's Press, New York.

[24] Simon, H. (1996) The Sciences of the Artificial, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

[25] Vincenti, W. (1990) What Engineers Know and How they Know it: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.

[26] Wimsatt, W. (2007) Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA.