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This volume features 16 essays on the philosophy of technology that
discuss its identity, its position in philosophy in general, and
the role of empirical studies in philosophical analyses of
engineering ethics and engineering practices. This volume is
published about fifteen years after Peter Kroes and Anthonie
Meijers published a collection of papers under the title The
empirical turn in the philosophy of technology, in which they
called for a reorientation toward the practice of engineering, and
sketched the likely benefits for philosophy of technology of
pursuing its major questions in an empirically informed way. The
essays in this volume fall apart in two different kinds. One kind
follows up on The empirical turn discussion about what the
philosophy of technology is all about. It continues the search for
the identity of the philosophy of technology by asking what comes
after the empirical turn. The other kind of essays follows the call
for an empirical turn in the philosophy of technology by showing
how it may be realized with regard to particular topics. Together
these essays offer the reader an overview of the state of the art
of an empirically informed philosophy of technology and of various
views on the empirical turn as a stepping stone into the future of
the philosophy of technology.
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?
This volume features 16 essays on the philosophy of technology that
discuss its identity, its position in philosophy in general, and
the role of empirical studies in philosophical analyses of
engineering ethics and engineering practices. This volume is
published about fifteen years after Peter Kroes and Anthonie
Meijers published a collection of papers under the title The
empirical turn in the philosophy of technology, in which they
called for a reorientation toward the practice of engineering, and
sketched the likely benefits for philosophy of technology of
pursuing its major questions in an empirically informed way. The
essays in this volume fall apart in two different kinds. One kind
follows up on The empirical turn discussion about what the
philosophy of technology is all about. It continues the search for
the identity of the philosophy of technology by asking what comes
after the empirical turn. The other kind of essays follows the call
for an empirical turn in the philosophy of technology by showing
how it may be realized with regard to particular topics. Together
these essays offer the reader an overview of the state of the art
of an empirically informed philosophy of technology and of various
views on the empirical turn as a stepping stone into the future of
the philosophy of technology.
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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