Technical Artefacts: Creations of Mind and Matter A Philosophy of Engineering Design /

• Main Author: Kroes, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 6
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Engineering design.; Philosophy of Technology.; Engineering Design.

This book presents an attempt to understand the nature of technical artefacts and the way they come into being. Its primary focus is the kind of technical artefacts designed and produced by modern engineering. In spite of their pervasive influence on human thinking and doing, and therefore on the mo...

Table of Contents:

• Preface.- Introduction.- 1. Technical artefacts.-  2. Theories of technical functions.- 3. Proper functions and technical artefact kinds.- 4. Engineering design.- 5. The moral significance of technical artefacts
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index.        .