Technical Functions (Record no. 113459)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789048139002
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-90-481-3900-2
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Classification number B53
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Subject category code HP
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Subject category code PHI021000
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Subject category code TEC000000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 601
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Houkes, Wybo.
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Technical Functions
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title On the Use and Design of Artefacts /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Wybo Houkes, P.E. Vermaas.
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Extent VIII, 174p.
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Series statement Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,
International Standard Serial Number 1879-7202 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 1
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
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Summary, etc This first book-length study in the philosophy of technical artefacts and their technical functions presents a new action-theoretical account of using and designing called the ICE theory. This theory connects the material side of technical artefacts with the aims of everyday users and the tasks of engineers when designing for those everyday users. Wybo Houkes and Pieter Vermaas have developed ICE theory in close contact with the engineering literature on designing and the literature on functions in the philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind. As such the book is a telling example of the successful new school of philosophy of technology that is aimed at understanding engineering and technology on their own merits. The book presents the reader with a broad and detailed understanding of technical artefacts and their functions, which is sensitive to the dynamic and socially structured practices of using and designing. This understanding shows how our technology-saturated everyday life can be subjected to rigorous philosophical analysis, and how artefacts and technical functions provide an area of inquiry that is equally fascinating as, but genuinely different from, biological items and their functions.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy (General).
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Technology
General subdivision Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Engineering design.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy of Technology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Engineering Design.
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Personal name Vermaas, P.E.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9789048138999
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Uniform title Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3900-2
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