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Artefact Kinds - Ontology and the Human-Made World (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Artefact Kinds - Ontology and the Human-Made World (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: Synthese Library, 365
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This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of
metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of
classification. What it adds to previous discussions of these
topics is that it addresses them with respect to human-made
entities, that is, artefacts. As the chapters in the book show,
questions of identity and classification require other treatments
and lead to other answers for artefacts than for natural entities.
These answers are of interest to philosophers not only for their
clarification of artefacts as a category of things but also for the
new light they may shed on these issue with respect to to natural
entities. This volume is structured in three parts. The
contributions in Part I address basic ontological and metaphysical
questions in relation to artefact kinds: How should we conceive of
artefact kinds? Are they real kinds? How are identity conditions
for artefacts and artefact kinds related? The contributions in Part
II address meta-ontological questions: What, exactly, should an
ontological account of artefact kinds provide us with? What scope
can it aim for? Which ways of approaching the ontology of artefact
kinds are there, how promising are they, and how should we assess
this? In Part III, the essays offer engineering practice rather
than theoretical philosophy as a point of reference. The issues
addressed here include: How do engineers classify technical
artefacts and on what grounds? What makes specific classes of
technical artefacts candidates for ontologically real kinds, and by
which criteria?
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