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Name: Philosophical Engineering
Description: I guess that Tim Berners-Lee introduced this term back in 2006, or? See also http://www.impactlab.net/2006/03/25/interview-with-tim-berners-lee/


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"This is where Web engineering, physics, Web science and philosophical engineering meet. Physics was actually called experimental philosophy at Oxford.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

In physics, to take the behaviour of gases as an example, you visualize them as billiard balls, model the rules they follow and then transpose that to a larger scale to account for the effects of temperature and pressure - so physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

So we could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically, where we have an informed electorate and accountable officials. To do that we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal." (see http://www.impactlab.net/2006/03/25/interview-with-tim-berners-lee/)

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