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Changing social role to the social responsibility of engineers

Author: Catherine ROBY

Publication date: January 10, 2017

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3. SHS: conditions for a pathway to societal responsibility for engineers

3.1 Taking values into account in science

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3.1.1 From truth to the search for truth

The natural sciences, through the role of mathematics in their development, became "exact" by the end of the 18th century. Descartes' vision of the world as totally intelligible through science – - a term that then applied to all types of knowledge in any field –- took precedence over that of Newton, who opted for a circumscribed understanding of the world through science.

In the second third of the 19th century,...

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