Peter Klimentjevich Engelmeyer (10 April 1855 – 7 July 1942) was a Russian engineer and proponent of technology and positivism.

Engelmeyer was of German origin.

Engelmeyer was in correspondence with the Austrian physicist and philosopher of science Ernst Mach. He informed Mach of his growing influence in Russia, affecting such scientists as Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky.[1]

Engelmeier regarded all human activity as falling into three major categories: scientific, artistic and technical.[2]

Publications edit

  • 1898 Tekhnicheskij itog XIX veka. (Technical sum of the XIX century) Moscow: Tipografija
  • 1910 Teorija tvorchestva (Theory of creativity) St. Petersburg: Obrazovanije
  • 1911 Tvorcheskaya lichnost’ i sreda v oblasti tekhnicheskikh izobretenij (Creative individual and context in the sphere of technical innovation) St. Petersburg: Obrazovanije
  • 1912 Filosofija tekhniki. Vypusk 2. Sovremennaja filosofija (Philosophy of technology. Ed. 2. Contemporary philosophy)
  • 1912 Filosofija tekhniki Vypusk 3. (Philosophy of technology. Ed. 3) Moscow: Nasha
  • 1913 Filosofija tekhniki. Vypusk 4. Technizism (Philosophy of technology, Ed. 4. Technicism)
  • 1915 "V zasshitu obssikh idej v tekhnike" (Defending the general ideas of technology) in Vestnik inzhenerov Vol 1. No. 3 February Moscow
  • 1925 Kak nado i kak ne nado izeobretat’ Konspect lekzij s diapositivami. (How we should and should not invent: Lecture notes) Moscow: Izdatel’stvo
  • 1929 Nuzhna li nam filosofija tekhniki? (Do we need philosophy of technology?) in Inzhenernyj trud, Vol. 2, No. 15 January, Moscow

References edit

  1. ^ Blackmore, John T. (1972). Ernst Mach; His Work, Life, and Influence. University of California Press. p. 235. ISBN 9780520018495. Retrieved 16 December 2017. ernst mach Karl Lueger.
  2. ^ Goriunova, Olga (January 2009). "Vitalist Technocultural Thinking in Revolutionary Russia (on Piotr Engelmeier)". 'Vitalist Technocultural Thinking in Revolutionary Russia (On Piotr Engelmeier)' in Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology. Historical Investigations on the Sites and the Migration of Knowledge, Eds. Andreas Broeckmann, Gunalan Nadarajan. Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften. Retrieved 16 December 2017.