While modern academia seems to adhere to Robert Frost's adage “Good fences make good neighbors,” ... more While modern academia seems to adhere to Robert Frost's adage “Good fences make good neighbors,” in reality, the demarcation of the disciplines is hardly rigid. Engineering and the Ultimate takes the reader back to a time when disciplines conversed and informed each other. The very discipline of engineering presumes certain foundational truths that are not reducible to a mathematical formula. It presupposes certain things about creativity, beauty, and translating abstract ideas into physical reality. Engineering relies on philosophy to operate. Conversely, because engineering is inherently teleological, philosophy can draw profound truths from engineering principles.
While modern academia seems to adhere to Robert Frost's adage “Good fences make good neighbors,” ... more While modern academia seems to adhere to Robert Frost's adage “Good fences make good neighbors,” in reality, the demarcation of the disciplines is hardly rigid. Engineering and the Ultimate takes the reader back to a time when disciplines conversed and informed each other. The very discipline of engineering presumes certain foundational truths that are not reducible to a mathematical formula. It presupposes certain things about creativity, beauty, and translating abstract ideas into physical reality. Engineering relies on philosophy to operate. Conversely, because engineering is inherently teleological, philosophy can draw profound truths from engineering principles.
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