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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. "Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture is a significant contribution to the expanding field of design studies. It brings questions of design into philosophy and thereby brings diverse philosophical perspectives to bear on conceptual, methodological, epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues of design. It is also the first collection of philosophical papers to bridge the divide between critical reflections on design in engineering and in architecture. After the publication of this well edited collection, it will be difficult for philosophy to ignore design as a theme as worthy of attention as such phenomena as scientific theory, aesthetic creativity, or political law." Carl Mitcham, Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines and author of the authorative monograph "Thinking through Technology (1994)".

Industrial design --- Engineering ethics. --- Philosophy. --- Engineering --- Ethics, Engineering --- Professional ethics --- Design, Industrial --- Mechanical drawing --- New products --- Design --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Architects --- Engineering design --- Professional ethics. --- Ethics. --- Architecture. --- Engineering design. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Architecture, general. --- Engineering Design. --- Design, Engineering --- Strains and stresses --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive

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This book presents an attempt to understand the nature of technical artefacts and the way they come into being. Its primary focus is the kind of technical artefacts designed and produced by modern engineering. In spite of their pervasive influence on human thinking and doing, and therefore on the modern human condition, a philosophical analysis of technical artefacts and engineering design is lacking. Among the questions addressed are: How do technical artefacts fit into the furniture of the universe? In what sense are they different from objects from the natural world, or from the social world? What kind of activity is engineering design and what does it mean to say that technical artefacts are the embodiment of a design? Does it make sense to consider technical artefacts to be morally good or bad by themselves because of the way they influence human life? The book advances the thesis that technical artefacts, conceived of as physical constructions with a technical function, have a dual nature; they are hybrid objects combining physical and intentional features. It proposes a theory of technical functions and technical artefact kinds that does justice to this dual nature, analyses engineering design from the dual nature point of view, and argues that technical artefacts, because of their dual nature, have inherent moral significance.

Engineering design --- Philosophy. --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Design --- Engineering design. --- Philosophy (general). --- Philosophy of technology. --- Sciences humaines. --- Sciences sociales. --- Technology & engineering --- Technology -- philosophy. --- Engineering (general). --- Reference. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Engineering Design. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Technology --- Technology and civilization

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Science --- -Technology --- -Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Congresses --- Technology --- Congresses. --- -Congresses --- Technology - Congresses. --- Science - Congresses.

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This text features investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.

Biology --- Technology --- Philosophy. --- Technology and civilization --- Vitalism --- BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General