Technical Functions PDF
By:Wybo Houkes,Pieter E. Vermaas
Published on 2010-03-19 by Springer Science & Business Media
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 whatever purpose they are designed or used? As we shall show, however, such intentionalist accounts face staunch opposition from other accounts, such as those that focus on long-term reproduction of artefacts. These accounts are partly right and mostly wrong — and although we do take a common-sense position in the end, it is only after sophisticated analysis. F- thermore, the results of this analysis reveal that technical functions depend on a larger and more structured set of beliefs and actions than is typically s- posed. Much work in the succeeding pages goes into developing an appropriate action-theoretical account, and forging a connection with function ascriptions.
This Book was ranked at 20 by Google Books for keyword 481-Download Engineering Novel PDF.
Book ID of Technical Functions's Books is XPQvlYSychoC, Book which was written byWybo Houkes,Pieter E. Vermaashave ETAG "ajjA5FOPTP8"
Book which was published by Springer Science & Business Media since 2010-03-19 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9789048139002 and ISBN 10 Code is 9048139007
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "174 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryTechnology and Engineering
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false
Book Preview
Download Technical Functions PDF Free
Download Technical Functions Books Free
Download Technical Functions Free
Download Technical Functions PDF
Download Technical Functions Books
No comments:
Post a Comment