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A Philosophy of Material Culture - Action, Function, and Mind (Paperback)
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A Philosophy of Material Culture - Action, Function, and Mind (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical
inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by
articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by
this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably
an account of improvised action and a non-intentionalist account of
function in material culture. Preston argues that material culture
essentially involves activities of production and use; she
therefore adopts an action-theoretic foundation for a philosophy of
material culture. Part 1 illustrates this foundation through a
critique, revision, and extension of existing philosophical
theories of action. Part 2 investigates a salient feature of
material culture itself-its functionality. A basic account of
function in material culture is constructed by revising and
extending existing theories of biological function to fit the
cultural case. Here the adjustments are for the most part
necessitated by special features of function in material culture.
These two parts of the project are held together by a trio of
overarching themes: the relationship between individual and
society, the problem of centralized control, and creativity.
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