In Praise of Emotion in Engineering

Abstract

This chapter argues for a conceptual connection between engineering and the emotions of engineers. The chapter has four parts. The first, the philosophical, provides an analysis of emotion in enough detail for our purpose, sketching a defense of that analysis along the way. The second and third parts show how that analysis helps us understand the relation between emotion and engineering. The fourth, the pedagogical, briefly considers what that analysis suggests about the content of a course in engineering ethics.