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While investigations into both theories and models has remained a major strand of engineering design research, current literature sorely lacks a reference book that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date anthology of theories and models, and their philosophical and empirical underpinnings; An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design fills this gap. The text collects the expert views of an international authorship, covering: ·         significant theories in engineering design, including CK theory, domain theory, and the theory of technical systems; ·         current models of design, from a function behavior structure model to an integrated model; ·         important empirical research findings from studies into design; and ·         philosophical underpinnings of design itself. For educators and researchers in engineering design, An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design gives access to in-depth coverage of theoretical and empirical developments in this area; for practitioners, the book will provide exposure to theoretical and empirical foundations to methods and tools that are currently practiced as well as those in the process of development.

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This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors’ contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around technologies, and the moral significance of technology. The editors’ introduction explains that as ‘agents’ rather than simply passive instruments, technical artefacts may actively influence their users, changing the way they perceive the world, the way they act in the world and the way they interact with each other. This volume features the work of various experts from around the world, representing a variety of positions on the topic. Contributions explore the contested discourse on agency in humans and artefacts, defend the Value Neutrality Thesis by arguing that technological artefacts do not contain, have or exhibit values, or argue that moral agency involves both human and non-human elements. The book also investigates technological fields that are subject to negative moral valuations due to the harmful effects of some of their products. It includes an analysis of some difficulties arising in Artificial Intelligence and an exploration of values in Chemistry and in Engineering. The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts is an advanced exploration of the various dimensions of the relations between technology and morality.

Engineering design -- Philosophy. --- Technology -- Philosophy. --- Technology -- Social aspects. --- Engineering design --- Technology --- Philosophy & Religion --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Philosophy --- Technology - General --- Social aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Design --- Political philosophy. --- Engineering. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Engineering, general. --- Political Philosophy. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Political philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Political science --- Technology and Engineering. --- Technology and civilization

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"Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of improving transportation technology, expansion of intercultural contacts, and the emergence of a global economy. In eight case studies and a substantial introduction, the volume examines relationships between individuals and institutions, precursors to modern networks that engaged in forms of intercultural exchange. Addressing the exchange of cultural commodities (plants, animals, and artifacts), cultural practices and ideas, the roles of ambassadors and interlopers, and the literary and artistic representation of networks, networkers, and networking, contributors discuss the effects on people previously separated by vast geographical and cultural distance. Rather than idealizing networks as inherently superior to other forms of organization, Oriental Networks also considers Enlightenment expressions of resistance to networking that inform modern skepticism toward the concept of the global network and its politics. In doing so the volume contributes to the increasingly global understanding of culture and communication. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press"--

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Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial life, embryology, complexity, cosmology, theology and the philosophy of biology.  This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775.

Design -- Philosophy. --- Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy. --- Pattern formation (Biology). --- Self-organizing systems. --- Symmorphosis. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Design --- Self-organizing systems --- Symmorphosis --- Pattern formation (Biology) --- Life --- Religion and science --- Biology --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Computer Science --- Ecology --- Evolution --- Philosophy --- Origin --- Nature. --- Design. --- Engineering. --- Religion --- Developmental biology. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Cosmology. --- Complexity, Computational. --- Complexity. --- Developmental Biology. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Philosophy of Biology. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Philosophy. --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Evolution (Biology). --- Biology-Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Development (Biology) --- Growth --- Ontogeny --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Computational complexity. --- Biology—Philosophy. --- Religion—Philosophy. --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Complexity, Computational --- Electronic data processing --- Machine theory