Skill, Technology and Enlightenment: On Practical Philosophy

Section I. Introduction.- 1. Introduction.- Section II. On Practical Philosophy.- 2. The Practical Intellect and Master-Apprenticeship.- 3. From Montaigne to Diderot: Pascal, Jansenism and the Dialectics of Inner Theater.- 4. Imaginary Confessions.- 5. Rameau’s Nephew. Dialogue as Gesamtkunstwerk for Enlightenment (with constant reference to Plato).- 6. Morals in the “Theatre of the World”.- 7. The Traditions of Dialogue and the Future of Philosophy.- 8. Comments.- Section III. Acting as a Model for Skill.- 9. We Must Safeguard the Freedoms of our Craft.- 10. Some Reflections on Diderot’s Paradox.- 11. The Actor as Paradigm?.- 12. Actors and Acting.- 13. Comments.- Section IV. Alan Turing and Ludwig Wittgenstein — A Meeting of Different Traditions of Knowledge.- 14. Beyond All Certainty.- 15. Thoughts on Acting and the Play Beyond All Certainty: Great Escape Theatre Company.- 16. The Legacy of Turing — On the Limits of the Calculable.- 17. “Nothing is Hidden”.- 18. Turing and Wittgenstein — Two Perceptions of Reality.- 19. Carved in Stone or Carried by the Wind?.- 20. Experiment, Science, Literature.- 21. Scientific “Fact-Fictions”.- 22. Comments.- Section V. Education and the Information Society.- 23. Some Enigma Variations: A Selection of Dialogues Prompted by Turing’s Work.- 24. The Two Cultures in Engineering.- 25. A Confrontation between Different Traditions of Knowledge. An Example from Working Life.- 26. Engineering, Culture and Competence.- 27. Engineering Training with a Human Face: The I-Program at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.- 28. The Systems Analysis Skill.- 29. Comments.- Section VI. On Diderot, Analogy and Mathematics.- 30. Diderot, Implicit Knowledge and Architecture: The Experience of Analogy.- 31. On Mathematicsat the Time of the Enlightenment, and Related Topics.- 32. Interdisciplinary Scope.- 33. Mathematics, Professional Knowledge and Technology: The Role of Mathematics in Society.- 34. Comments.- Section VII. Epilogue.- 35. Diderot and Dialogue: Reflections on the Stockholm Conference.- 36. Themes and Possibilities.- Name Index.