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The Disciplines of Engineering and History: Some Common Ground.

The nature of engineering and history as disciplines are explored and found to have some striking similarities, for example in the importance they place on context and practitioner involvement. They are found to be different from science, which focuses more on universal generalizations rather than o...

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Published in:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 539 - 550
Main Author: Dias, Priyan
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jun2014
Subjects:
History of engineering
History of technology
Engineering education
Individuation (Philosophy)
Engineering schools
Situation (Philosophy)
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