TY - JOUR

T1 - Engineers

T2 - Bridging the Gap between Mechanisms and Values

AU - Chebotareva, Elena E.

PY - 2019/1/1

Y1 - 2019/1/1

N2 - Engineers managed to attract the attention of thinkers to their profession and become the protagonists of philosophical discourse. This article explores whether the philosophy of engineering can offer any persuasive help toward a definition of the engineer’s ‘essence’, and considers whether a lack of agreement on this definition is really a problem. This study demonstrates the need to involve the context of social theories both in analyzing the prerequisites of the philosophical consideration of the concept ‘engineer’ and in the socially significant reasons for attention to this concept. The novelty of my approach lies in considering the phenomenon of ‘technopreneurship’ within the framework of the philosophy of engineering.

AB - Engineers managed to attract the attention of thinkers to their profession and become the protagonists of philosophical discourse. This article explores whether the philosophy of engineering can offer any persuasive help toward a definition of the engineer’s ‘essence’, and considers whether a lack of agreement on this definition is really a problem. This study demonstrates the need to involve the context of social theories both in analyzing the prerequisites of the philosophical consideration of the concept ‘engineer’ and in the socially significant reasons for attention to this concept. The novelty of my approach lies in considering the phenomenon of ‘technopreneurship’ within the framework of the philosophy of engineering.

KW - Philosophy of engineering

KW - professional ethics

KW - technopreneurship

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076397857&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/02691728.2019.1695008

DO - 10.1080/02691728.2019.1695008

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85076397857

VL - 34

SP - 151

EP - 161

JO - Social Epistemology

JF - Social Epistemology

SN - 0269-1728

IS - 2

ER -