Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering: 'A World of Things, Not Facts'

In November 2007, the first international Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering was held at the Technical University of Delft. I was fortunate to be asked to speak at the conference, representing The Royal Academy of Engineering. My talk brought out the commonalities between the lessons that can be learned from philosophy of engineering and the lessons that Wittgenstein, in his later philosophy, felt should be drawn from philosophy. My paper will be published in a forthcoming collection of selected papers from the conference.

The second Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering will be held in London at The Royal Academy of Engineering. Information about the workshop and a call for papers is online here: http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/wpe/about/