EE 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: René Descartes, Lifeworld, Physicalism
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We have read ep chpt 1 and the intro and the langdon. Winner provides a big picture critique of case studies. We should advocate technologies (engineered products) that: enhance democratic participation and social equality, enlarge human freedom rather than curtail it, advance the public good. Winner maintains that there are two key responsibilities we have: of dialogue and of citizenship. These responsibilities are carried out within the conversation of the lifeworld. more on winner in weekend hw. The pre-modern engineering endeavor gave way to the modern engineering enterprise. Engineering started to become a distinct process driven by a distinct methodology. The cartesian method became the method which drove the. It involves the four moments of: abstraction, dissection, re-construction, control. The first two are basic to analysis/science and the last two to synthesis/design. Engineering science and engineering design eventually called for engineering professionalism. These three are the three main ideas in chapter 1.
