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Technonauka a przyszłość gatunku Homo sapiens
(Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej, 2017) Morawski, Roman Z.
This chapter is on technoscience and the potential risks for the humanity it implies. The term technoscience refers to the result of integrating science and technology – the global system which includes academic and industrial research institutions, manufacturing companies and service providers, local and international agencies administering tests, as well as local and international organizations dealing with various aspects of global development. After general considerations concerning the origin and development of technoscience, several technoscience-induced problems, identified and analyzed by philosophers in the 20th century, are selected and put under scrutiny; these are in particular: the axiological repercussions of technoscience, its influence on the evolution of democracy and pandemic consumerism, the overgrowth of business approach in technoscience and social life, the probable waning of humaneness. Although no remedies are explicitly proposed, preferred solutions may be inferred from the presented critical analysis of the technoscience-induced problems.
Wokół zagadnień humanizacji studiów technicznych
(Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej, 2017) Ostasz, Grzegorz
This article is an attempt to answer questions that concern both the presence and place of the humanities at technical universities. It highlights the role of socalled additional disciplines, such as humanities in the intellectual-spiritual development of future engineers. Certainly, extracurricular activities need to be conducted in the right way. They must be interesting for the audience, persuade, and never discourage or be dissuasive. This article is based on the didactic experience of the author at Rzeszów University of Technology. It suggests the legitimacy of the correlation between technical sciences and well-understood humanities.
Humanista i inżynier w czasach postprawdy i zapowiadanej osobliwości (singularity)
(Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej, 2017) Batko, Roman
Today, the humanities and engineering sciences are distant from each other and look at each other with growing distrust. Engineers, equipped with their empirical, mathematical workshop instrumentation stand by the authority of existing scientific laws, whereas representatives of the humanities, who treat the inferiority complexes of those who cannot offer our civilization anything of practical or tangible use, look down on engineers. We are living in post-modern times in which scientific findings are questioned and distrusted, and study results by outstanding scholars are considered mere opinions, views or positions. Solid education has been replaced by "narratives" and fake news.
Humanista w świecie techniki - technik w świecie wartości
(Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej, 2017) Kiepas, Andrzej
The article presents the relations between the human and technological sciences in the context of the C.P. Snowe’s idea of two cultures. Today, this division is losing its importance which has also been visible in the philosophy of technology and in its changes. The traditional and the newest philosophies of technology propose a fundamentally different understanding of technology. The changes are connected with stressing the connections rather than differences between the human technological sciences. For example, the necessity of cooperation arises in cases of: implementation of the concept of technology assessment and growth of the meaning of risk in modern civilization. It should find its place in the education of engineers by including the problems of STS (science, technology and society) in the programs of their education.
Humanista z duszą humanisty...
(Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej, 2017) Lubacz, Józef
The title of this paper is provocative with respect to the title of the book. The aim was to indicate that the latter may be interpreted as suggesting that a humanistic attitude in engineers is a rare virtue, and thus that engineering fits well into the Two Cultures divide that was famously discussed by. C.P. Snow. This paper pertains to this problem from the perspective of human creative activity. It is argued that if considered on a sufficiently abstract level, human creative activity shows features that are domain-independent. This pertains, in particular, to epistemic activity (which deals with “what is”) as well as to poietic activity (which deals with “what is to be”). The main conclusion is that understanding the commonality of epistemic and poietic activity may help in overcoming the Two Cultures syndrome.