Artefact Kinds Ontology and the Human-Made World /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Franssen, Maarten (Editor), Kroes, Peter (Editor), Reydon, Thomas A.C (Editor), Vermaas, Pieter E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 365
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Engineering design.; Philosophy of Technology.; Engineering Design.

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 boo...