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Artefact Kinds

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 365)

Editors: Franssen, Maarten; Kroes, Peter; Reydon, Thomas A. C.; Vermaas, Pieter E.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00801-1

ISBN: 978-3-319-00800-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 2, 2013

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction: The Ontology of Technical Artefacts

Franssen, Maarten; Kroes, Peter; Reydon, Thomas A. C.; Vermaas, Pieter E.

Pages: 1 –14

[This chapter introduces the reader to the main difficulties that artefacts pose for ontology. Due to the possibilities of disassembly and reassembly, it is problematic to come up with clear identity conditions for artefacts. Due to the possibility of radical reassembly of parts to create an...
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How Real Are Artefacts and Artefact Kinds?

Lowe, E. J.

Pages: 17 –26

[It is often difficult to specify, in a principled way, determinate existence and identity conditions for individual artefacts of many familiar kinds, and this fact threatens to undermine realism with regard to artefact kinds and their members. However, it may be argued that at least some kinds...
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Artifacts and Mind-Independence

Elder, Crawford L.

Pages: 27 –43

[Realists maintain that the only material objects there are those that exist mind-independently. In this chapter I argue that realists can consistently maintain that artifacts of many, many familiar kinds really exist. I end by suggesting that realists can even affirm the reality of artifacts...
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Public Artifacts, Intentions, and Norms

Thomasson, Amie L.

Pages: 45 –62

[Artifacts are often said to be things intentionally created to serve a certain function, where function plays the dominant role in classifying artifacts into artifactual kinds. Here I argue, however, that artifacts need not have intended functions and that even when they do, that does not always...
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Artefact Kinds, Ontological Criteria and Forms of Mind-Dependence

Franssen, Maarten; Kroes, Peter

Pages: 63 –83

[In this chapter we discuss criteria for ontologically crediting or discrediting certain kinds of things we refer to in everyday life and artefact kinds in particular. Generally used criteria for settling whether things ‘really exist’ are mind-independence and determinateness, and on these...
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Artifact Kinds, Identity Criteria, and Logical Adequacy

Carrara, Massimiliano; Gaio, Silvia; Soavi, Marzia

Pages: 85 –101

[An important aspect of the alleged logical inadequacy of identity criteria for artifact kinds is the lack of transitivity. This formal problem can be eliminated through the use of a tool allowing for the gradual approximation of inadequate but normally adopted identity criteria. Although this...
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Creating Artifactual Kinds

Vega-Encabo, Jesús; Lawler, Diego

Pages: 105 –124

[The aim of this chapter is to assess how two widespread types of theory on the nature of artifact kinds (i.e., functional and intentional theories) address the creation requirement, which demands an account of the appearance of genuinely new artifacts resulting from intentional creative...
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Metaphysical and Epistemological Approaches to Developing a Theory of Artifact Kinds

Reydon, Thomas A. C.

Pages: 125 –144

[In this chapter, I examine whether the philosophy of natural kinds can yield useful clues for the development of a theory of the metaphysics and epistemology of artifact kinds. In passing, I explore the prospects for a unified account of kinds that applies to natural kinds as well as artifact...
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Ethnotechnology: A Manifesto

Preston, Beth

Pages: 145 –163

[The philosophical study of artifacts faces a serious problem going forward. There is a gap between work in the metaphysics of artifacts and work in other disciplines, such as psychology and anthropology. This gap primarily concerns the status of the category “artifact” itself and secondarily the...
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On What Is Made: Instruments, Products and Natural Kinds of Artefacts

Houkes, Wybo; Vermaas, Pieter E.

Pages: 167 –190

[Debates in the metaphysics of artefacts typically start from the observation that technical artefacts result from intentional production and then focus immediately on the issue whether this ‘mind-dependence’ undermines claims that artefacts exist or come in natural or real kinds. We aim to add...

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