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100 1 _aHoukes, Wybo.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTechnical Functions
_h[electronic resource] :
_bOn the Use and Design of Artefacts /
_cby Wybo Houkes, P.E. Vermaas.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2010.
300 _aVIII, 174p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aPhilosophy of Engineering and Technology,
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505 0 _aChapter 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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aPhilosophy (General).
650 0 _aTechnology
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aEngineering design.
650 1 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Technology.
650 2 4 _aEngineering Design.
700 1 _aVermaas, P.E.
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710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aPhilosophy of Engineering and Technology,
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