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Mathematization and Engineering - A Contested Relationship| old_uid | 10376 |
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| title | Mathematization and Engineering - A Contested Relationship |
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| start_date | 2011/11/16 |
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| schedule | 17h-19h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | amphi A.042 |
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| summary | During the last decades of the 19th century, the engineering disciplines changed greatly. At a glimpse, they became scientific - the technological sciences. At a second view, this development involved institutional, social, epistemic, and methodological changes.
The talk will concentrate on the contested role of mathematization in this development. The focus will be on one particular episode, the so-called anti-mathematics movement in the technological sciences in Germany. Two opposing camps faced and each other. One was led by the mathematician Felix Klein who advocated a unified science with a strong bridging role for applied mathematics. The other camp was headed by mechanical engineer Alois Riedler who favored an autonomous position of the technological sciences. The controversy was about social as well as epistemic and methodological issues.
It will be claimed that Riedler’s position, although called anti-mathematics, did not oppose mathematization, rather advocated a certain conception of it - namely an instrumental, and anti-rational-mechanics type of mathematization. |
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| responsibles | Rebuschi |
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