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Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: Reimagining Conceptions of Technological and Societal Progress -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Why Philosophy and Engineering? -- 1.2.1 Structure of the Book -- 1.3 Section 1: Technological Progress -- 1.3.1 Part I: Reimagining How Engineering Relates to the Sciences -- 1.3.2 Part II: Re-imagining Engineering Epistemology and Reasoning -- 1.4 Section 2: Social Progress -- 1.4.1 Part III: Reimagining Values and Culture in Engineering and Engineered Systems -- 1.4.2 Part IV: Reimagining Social Progress Through Engineers' Ethical Principles -- 1.5 Section 3: The Connection Between Engineering and Social Progress -- 1.5.1 Part V: Re-imagining How Engineering Relates to Complex Sociotechnical Systems -- 1.5.2 Part VI: Reimagining Social Progress in Democracy, and the Need to Align Engineering to Social Values -- 1.6 Part VII: A Provocation - Reimagining the Limits of Philosophy and Knowledge Through Generic Design -- 1.7 On Progress for the Philosophy of Engineering -- References -- Part I: Technological Progress: Reimagining How Engineering Relates to the Sciences -- Chapter 2: Engineering Design Principles in Natural and Artificial Systems: Generative Entrenchment and Modularity -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Generative Entrenchment -- 2.2.1 Generative Entrenchment and Engineered Technological Systems -- 2.2.2 Entrenchment Can Drive Asymmetry and, thus, Diversity -- 2.2.3 Entrenchment and Bauplans: General Frameworks for Adaptive Radiations -- 2.3 Top-Down Modularity: The Emergence of Order from the Big Ball of Mud -- 2.3.1 How Modularity in Engineering Can Become Entrenched -- 2.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Technological Progress in the Life Sciences -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A History of Genetic Intervention -- 3.3 What's a Technological Revolution Anyway?.