ESD.83
Doctoral Seminar in Engineering Systems
Fall 2011
Topics
- How do we know what we know? – The generation of cumulative knowledge in a field
- Historical roots of engineering systems
- Policy design/course wrap–up
Readings
- Snow, C. P., ed. “The Rede Lecture (1959).” In The Two Cultures (Canto Classics) . Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 1–51. ISBN: 9781107606142.
- Popper, K. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge . 2nd ed. Routledge, 2002, pp. xi–xvii and 43–86. ISBN: 9780415285940.
- Feynman, R. P. The Character of Physical Law (Modern Library) . Modern Library, 1994, pp. xix–xx and 3–55. ISBN: 9780679601272.
- Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. Prologue, chapters 16 and 17 in The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable . Random House, 2007. ISBN: 9781400063512.
- Hall, S. S. Mapping the Next Millenium: The Discovery of New Geographies . Random House, 1992. ISBN: 9780394576350.
- Watts, D. J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age . W. W. Norton and Co., 2003, pp. 37–42 and 130–61. ISBN: 9780393041422.
- Banerjee, A., and Esther Duflo. Chapters 1, 2, 10 and the “In Place of Sweeping Conclusions” section in Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty . PublicAffairs, 2011. ISBN: 9781586487980.
- Reyna, Valerie S. “Meaning, Memory and Interpretation of Metaphors.” In Metaphor: Implications and Applications . Edited by J. Mio and A. Katz. Psychology Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780805816501.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.