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Philosophy and engineering: oil and water. They can sit in parallel to each other, never really interacting:

Of course, depending on your perspective, the layers might be the other way around: philosophy "supporting" engineering:

Of course, Philosophy can be viewed as being the basis for - everything:

Now, if someone is willing to add some energy into the system, and some additional mixing agents, like ideas, then stir things up, we can create an emulsion:

Some emulsions are stupendously useful (like paint), others… less so.

I’m guessing that an engineering-philosophy emulsion will end up on the not-so-useful end of the scale, but for some not really fathomable reason, I’m willing to try. But why...?

There's the old adage (with a million variations) that an engineer needs a philosopher like a bird needs an aerodynamicist. The bird will fly regardless - but perhaps we, if not the bird, can learn something along the way.