List, Jon: > On Mar 1, 2017, at 9:59 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have argued for years that just as science is perceived as an especially > systematic way of knowing, likewise engineering could be conceived as an > especially systematic way of willing; and if this is really the case, then > the distinctive reasoning process of engineers should be paradigmatic for > other kinds of decision-making, including ethical deliberation.
Your statement appears very sound to me. I would add that the > engineering could be conceived as an especially systematic way of willing; is parallel to the phrase “ synthetic chemistry could be conceived as an especially systematic way of willing molecules from atoms” :-) The parallel is in the concepts but differs in the scale of the logical objects. Or, at least it had until nano-engineering started to be successful. Cheers Jerry
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