| Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester |
| Evaluation: Approval of exercises and reports
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| Examination: 13-scale |
| Prerequisites: Tilstrækkelig baggrund til at forstå eksempler fra ingeniørens verden, som sættes i forbindelse med filosofi og etik. Enough courses with an engineering / technical content to understand examples and exercises. |
| Participant limitation: Max. 30 |
| Aim: The purpose of the course is to give the student a foundation in applied ethics, philosophy of science and engineering, and in design and operation of technical facilities based on combined pragmatism and theory. The intention is to prepare the student to the situations where technical solutions are but elements in a larger set of ethical / philosophical issues; and to prepare the student to situations where scientific surprises and engineering chances or failures may be part of the picture. |
| Contents: The lecture programme will go through basic ethical theories and apply them to common engineering situations. Examples from history will be used to illustrate scientific thinking and the periods of technical development up to the present day, where positivism is challenged and questions regarding the wisdom of growth and technical development. The scale of engineering knowledge from determinism (know-all) to ignorance (no-know) will be related to use of models for design and operation. The ignorance may give rise to scientific surprises and engineering chances or failures and shall be accounted for in choice of technical options. |
Contact: Poul Harremoes, building 115, (+45) 4525 1599, ph@er.dtu.dk
Martin Krayer Von Krauss, building 115, (+45) 4525 1574, mkk@er.dtu.dk |
| Department: 012 Environment &Resources DTU |
| Updated: 11-01-2002 |
