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By Jon Cook, Bo Göranzon (auth.), Bo Göranzon (eds.)
Skill, know-how and Enlightenment: On functional Philosophy explores the issues of constructing a point of view on know-how and society, at the limits of enlightment, the connection among cultural feedback and the epistemology of functional wisdom, tacit wisdom and a non-elitist notion of craftsmanship, the function of the humanities as a foundation for mirrored image, and lots of different proper topics.
The 1993 overseas convention in Stockholm used to be - between different issues - a part of a means of construction a curriculum for a global graduate programme within the zone of tradition, ability and know-how, a strategy that has been less than manner seeing that 1989.
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In his more recent book, The Inhuman, Lyotard underscores this, exhorting us to abandon the narrative of 'the emancipation of humanity'. He predicts the Death of the Sun as a 'fact' projected into the future. Post-modernism will be followed, Lyotard tells us, by 'post-solar thought', a 'fact' which will put a stop to the religions, myths, aesthetics, and grand narratives of death that modern thought has dealt in. 5 million years. G. Ballard. Ballard himself has claimed that the literature that will survive as the fiction of our time is 'science fiction (or, in the term employed by Darko Suvin, 'speculative fiction'), while reworkings of more traditional material will sink without trace.
They are more prone to erase the distinctions between discourses than to observe them. Literary critics tends to celebrate the capacity of fiction to fictionalize fact and factualize fiction. The author suggests, however, that the new scientific fact-fictions, which dominate discourse of all kinds, deserve closer critical scrutiny. If the public is subjected to the rhetorical use of these scientific fact-fictions by pundits claiming scientific status for their diagnoses and nostrums, it can hardly be expected to make accurate distinctions and informed policy decisions.
If engineers are to participate successfully in managing both the design and implementation of technical applications, they will need the ability to make integrated assessments. Skills in the technical and natural sciences are essential for these integrated assessments; without such skills there is a risk that the assessments will miss the point and be as one-sided as a pure and simple economic calculation without any real content - with the emphasis on form rather than on content. Technical applications must be designed and implemented in stages.