In March 2006 I wrote a piece for The Royal Academy of Engineering's Ingenia magazine, title: "Philosophy in the Making". This article outlines the reasons for engaging in philosphy of engineering, even though engineering is a subject that has enjoyed considerably less attention form philosophers than its sister discipline, science. This piece makes the case that engineering provides significant contributions to knowledge, and thus should be in the sights of epistemologists and philosophers of science; that engineering provides insight on longstanding philosphical problems and that philosophy can actually have an impact on the success of engineering in practice. This article cites the work of Peter Simons at the University of Leeds, and the ideas of Ian Hacking.
A copy of this article is available online here:
http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/issues/issue26/mccarthy.pdf
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