What Western Philosophers of Technology Might Learn from Li Bocong’s Philosophy of Engineering-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

What Western Philosophers of Technology Might Learn from Li Bocong’s Philosophy of Engineering

Published:2024-07-23 Issue:4 Volume:30 Page:
ISSN:1471-5546
Container-title:Science and Engineering Ethics
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci Eng Ethics

Author:

Wang Nan^ORCID,Mitcham Carl^ORCID

Abstract

AbstractThis essay aims to rectify a failure on the part of Western philosophers of technology to attend to the creative philosophical work of Li Bocong at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. After a brief account of Li Bocong’s personal contacts with the West and some remarks on his relationship to Marxism, we take up three aspects of his philosophy that can contribute to enlarging Western philosophical thinking about engineering and technology: (1) Li’s analysis of engineering as more than design, (2) his argument for the relevance of the sociology of engineering, and (3) his conceptualization of engineering ethics as more than professional ethics.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11948-024-00490-4.pdf

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