Institute of Machine Design and Automotive Engineering, University of Karlsruhe (TH)

2005 ◽  
pp. 498-501
Author(s):  
Albert Albers
Keyword(s):  
Machine Design ◽  
Automotive Engineering

Fundamentals of Machine Design

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajeet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Machine Design

Textiles in automotive engineering

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Fung ◽  
Mike Hardcastle
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Engineering

Is There Life in Possible Worlds?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Machine Design ◽  
Lagrangian Mechanics ◽  
Philosophical Investigations ◽  
Search Spaces ◽  
Dimensional Modeling ◽  
Lower Dimensional

Scientists have developed various collections of specialized possibilities to serve as search spaces in which excessive reliance upon speculative forms of lower dimensional modeling or other unwanted details can be skirted. Two primary examples are discussed: the search spaces of machine design and the virtual variations utilized within Lagrangian mechanics. Contemporary appeals to “possible worlds” attempt to imbed these localized possibilities within fully enunciated universes. But not all possibilities are made alike and these reductive schemes should be resisted, on the grounds that they render the utilities of everyday counterfactuals and “possibility” talk incomprehensible. The essay also discusses whether Wittgenstein’s altered views in his Philosophical Investigations reflect similar concerns.

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