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Engineering sciences: History and theory

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The scope of problems associated with scientific and technological advance is extremely wide. Methodological analysis of the development of engineering sciences, along with a sociohumanistic review of innovations under elaboration, undoubtedly constitutes the necessary base for an effective strategy of controlling techno logical advance, which is turning into a paramount task under the growth of diverse risks. However, the phi losophy of technology, which is a young discipline, and methodological studies as its most complex and labor consuming part were duly recognized only in the past few decades. The problems faced by the philosophy of technology are covered in the article published below.

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  1. Department of Interdisciplinary Problems in the Advancement of Science and Technology of the Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.G. Gorokhov, 2014, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2014, Vol. 84, No. 11, pp. 1002–1009.

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Gorokhov, V. Engineering sciences: History and theory. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 84, 441–448 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S101933161406001X

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