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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9789048139002 |
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978-90-481-3900-2 |
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
B53 |
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
601 |
Edition number |
23 |
264 #1 - |
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Dordrecht : |
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Springer Netherlands, |
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2010. |
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Houkes, Wybo. |
Relator term |
author. |
245 10 - IMMEDIATE SOURCE OF ACQUISITION NOTE |
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. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
VIII, 174p. |
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online resource. |
440 1# - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
Title |
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. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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. |
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Vermaas, P.E. |
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author. |
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
SpringerLink (Online service) |
773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY |
Title |
Springer eBooks |
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
Display text |
Printed edition: |
International Standard Book Number |
9789048138999 |
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3900-2 |
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E-Book |