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Abstraction as a Vector: Distinguishing Philosophy of Science from Philosophy of Engineering

机译：抽象作为向量：从工程哲学中区分科学哲学

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A potential benefit of developing a philosophy of engineering and engineering education is a clearer differentiation of engineering and engineering education from science and science education. At the same time a challenge in improving the technological literacy of the general public is the problem that science and engineering are seen as equivalent in the eyes of many who are not technically trained professionals. The distinction is often made that science is the study of the natural world as it exists and engineering is the creation of human-made products and systems. However it may be helpful to develop other means of distinguishing engineering from science. In particular another distinction that is grounded in the underlying philosophy of each discipline may help practitioners in science and engineering to better appreciate the differences in these two areas of knowledge. This paper develops the proposition that one distinction between the activities of science and engineering is the role of abstract thinking in each discipline. Engineering and science both engage in abstract thinking, but the direction or path taken by the abstraction process points in different directions for the two disciplines. This view may help to explain the difference between engineering and science in a way that is less associated with value judgments attributed to pure and applied activity. Engineering design uses the idea of abstract function to create specific physical objects. In analyzing the natural world, science proceeds from the specific towards abstract theory.
机译：发展工程与工程教育哲学的潜在好处是从科学和科学教育的工程和工程教育更清楚地分化。同时，提高公众技术识字的挑战是科学和工程被视为同样在技术上没有技术上培训的专业人士的眼中的问题。这些区别往往使科学是对自然界的研究，因为它存在，工程是人造产品和系统的创造。然而，开发从科学中开发其他传播工程的方法可能会有所帮助。特别是在每个学科的基本哲学中接地的另一个区别可能有助于科学和工程的从业者，以更好地欣赏这两个知识领域的差异。本文发展了科学与工程活动之间的一个分歧是抽象思维在每个学科的作用。工程与科学都从事抽象思维，但抽象过程所采取的方向或道路在两个学科的不同方向上。这种观点可以帮助解释工程和科学之间的差异，这种方式与归因于纯粹和应用活动的价值判断。工程设计使用抽象功能的想法来创建特定的物理对象。在分析自然界时，科学从特定于抽象理论进行。

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