Technical Functions On the Use and Design of Artefacts /

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 e...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Houkes, Wybo. (Author), Vermaas, P.E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
Series:Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 1
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3900-2
LEADER 03943nam a22004815i 4500
001 11946
003 DE-He213
005 20130725195606.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 100327s2010 ne | s |||| 0|eng d
020 # # |a 9789048139002  |9 978-90-481-3900-2 
024 7 # |a 10.1007/978-90-481-3900-2  |2 doi 
050 # 4 |a B53 
072 # 7 |a HP  |2 bicssc 
072 # 7 |a PHI021000  |2 bisacsh 
072 # 7 |a TEC000000  |2 bisacsh 
082 0 4 |a 601  |2 23 
100 1 # |a Houkes, Wybo.  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Technical Functions  |b On the Use and Design of Artefacts /  |c by Wybo Houkes, P.E. Vermaas.  |h [electronic resource] : 
264 # 1 |a Dordrecht :  |b Springer Netherlands,  |c 2010. 
300 # # |a VIII, 174p.  |b online resource. 
336 # # |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 # # |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 # # |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
347 # # |a text file  |b PDF  |2 rda 
490 1 # |a Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,  |v 1  |x 1879-7202 ; 
505 0 # |a 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 # # |a 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 |a Philosophy (General). 
650 # 0 |a Technology  |x Philosophy. 
650 # 0 |a Engineering design. 
650 1 4 |a Philosophy. 
650 2 4 |a Philosophy of Technology. 
650 2 4 |a Engineering Design. 
700 1 # |a Vermaas, P.E.  |e author. 
710 2 # |a SpringerLink (Online service) 
773 0 # |t Springer eBooks 
776 0 8 |i Printed edition:  |z 9789048138999 
830 # 0 |a Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,  |v 1  |x 1879-7202 ; 
856 4 0 |u https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3900-2 
912 # # |a ZDB-2-SHU 
950 # # |a Humanities, Social Sciences and Law (Springer-11648)