Technical Functions : On the Use and Design of Artefacts /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2010. |
| Series: | Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Use, plans and designing
- 2.1 Artefacts and actions
- 2.2 Use plans
- 2.3 Planning in use
- 2.4 Designing plans
- 2.6 Standards for use plans
- 2.7 Evaluating artefact use and design
- Chapter 3 Function theories
- 3.1 Function theories for technical artefacts
- 3.2 The intentional function theory
- 3.3 Cummins.causal-role theory of functions
- 3.4 The evolutionist function theory
- 3.5 Combining the basic theories
- 4.1 A use-plan approach towards functions
- 4.2 Function ascriptions
- 4.3 Assessing the function ascriptions
- 4.4 Functional roles
- Chapter 5 Malfunctioning
- 5.1 The phenomenon of artefact malfunctioning
- 5.2 Having capacities versus exercising them
- 5.3 Artefact normativity
- Chapter 6 Engineering, science and biology
- 6.2 Engineering
- 6.3 Physics and chemistry
- 6.4 Biology
- 6.5 A biological and generalised ICE-theory
- Chapter 7 The nature of artefacts
- 7.1 Functions as conceptual drawbridges
- 7.2 Against function essentialism
- 7.3 Plan relativism
- 7.4 Useful and man-made materials.