资源工程哲学何以可能?

Why is Philosophical Research on Resources Engineering Possible?

资源工程(尤其是矿产资源工程)是人类对自然赋存进行改造和利用的对象性活动。资源工程应成为工程哲学的重要研究对象,它直接反映人与自然、人与社会根本关系两大基本哲学命题。从工程与自然的根本关系来看,资源工程活动中蕴含资源稀缺性与需求激增性矛盾的本质,资源工程知识的生成、应用与传播,资源开发利用的一般方法论,及其价值诉求等关于本质论、认识论、方法论和价值论等方面的内容。从工程与社会的本质联系看,资源工程哲学还必须研究"四矿"(矿业、矿山、矿工、矿城)问题这一重要领域。资源工程中"自然-工程(或人)-社会"的本质联系,使资源工程哲学研究成为可能,它对促进我国工程哲学的发展和新型工业化城市建设具有重要意义。

Resources engineering （especially mineral resources engineering）is an objective activity of human to reforming or remaking the conditions of nature. Resources engineering should become an important research object of philosophy of engineering, because it is a direct reflection of the two basic fundamental philosophical propositions of the relationship between man and nature, and man and society. From the view of the fundamental relations between engineering and nature, there are some inherent contents about ontolo gy, epistemology, methodology and theory of value in resources engineering activities, such as the essential understanding on scarcity of resources in contradiction with the rising social demand, the generation, application and dissemination of resources engineering knowledge, the general methodology of resources development and utilization, and the value appeal of resources engineering. From the essential relationship between engineering and society, philosophy of resources engineering should also study such an important area as ＂Four-M＂ issues （mining, mine, miners, mining city）. It is the essential relationship among nature, engineering （or hu- mans）, and society in resources engineering activities that has made the philosophical research of resources engineering possible. There is a great significance for resources engineering philosophy research to promoting the development of engineering philosophy and the construction of new industrial cities in China.