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Technical Functions
Houkes, Wybo; Vermaas, Pieter E.
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Description for Technical Functions
Hardback. Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; TBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 438.
This book is about the functions of technical artefacts, material objects made to serve practical purposes; objects ranging from tablets of Aspirin to Concorde, from wooden clogs to nuclear submarines. More precisely, the book is about usinganddesigningartefacts, aboutwhatitmeanstoascribefunctionstothem, and about the relations between using, designing and ascribing functions. In the following pages, we present a detailed account that shows how strong these relations are. Technical functions cannot be properly analysed without taking into regard the beliefs and actions of human beings, we contend. This account stays deceptively close to common sense. After all, who would deny that artefacts are for ... Read more
This book is about the functions of technical artefacts, material objects made to serve practical purposes; objects ranging from tablets of Aspirin to Concorde, from wooden clogs to nuclear submarines. More precisely, the book is about usinganddesigningartefacts, aboutwhatitmeanstoascribefunctionstothem, and about the relations between using, designing and ascribing functions. In the following pages, we present a detailed account that shows how strong these relations are. Technical functions cannot be properly analysed without taking into regard the beliefs and actions of human beings, we contend. This account stays deceptively close to common sense. After all, who would deny that artefacts are for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Series
Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048138999
SKU
V9789048138999
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