Technical Artefacts: Creations of Mind and Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technical Artefacts: Creations of Mind and Matter write by Peter Kroes. This book was released on 2012-05-24. Technical Artefacts: Creations of Mind and Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 modern human condition, a philosophical analysis of technical artefacts and engineering design is lacking. Among the questions addressed are: How do technical artefacts fit into the furniture of the universe? In what sense are they different from objects from the natural world, or from the social world? What kind of activity is engineering design and what does it mean to say that technical artefacts are the embodiment of a design? Does it make sense to consider technical artefacts to be morally good or bad by themselves because of the way they influence human life? The book advances the thesis that technical artefacts, conceived of as physical constructions with a technical function, have a dual nature; they are hybrid objects combining physical and intentional features. It proposes a theory of technical functions and technical artefact kinds that does justice to this dual nature, analyses engineering design from the dual nature point of view, and argues that technical artefacts, because of their dual nature, have inherent moral significance.
Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts
Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts write by Marilù Papandreou. This book was released on 2023-12-21. Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thorough reconstruction of Aristotle's account of artefacts that is sensitive to modern debates.
The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts
The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts write by Peter Kroes. This book was released on 2014-01-08. The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors’ contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around technologies, and the moral significance of technology. The editors’ introduction explains that as ‘agents’ rather than simply passive instruments, technical artefacts may actively influence their users, changing the way they perceive the world, the way they act in the world and the way they interact with each other. This volume features the work of various experts from around the world, representing a variety of positions on the topic. Contributions explore the contested discourse on agency in humans and artefacts, defend the Value Neutrality Thesis by arguing that technological artefacts do not contain, have or exhibit values, or argue that moral agency involves both human and non-human elements. The book also investigates technological fields that are subject to negative moral valuations due to the harmful effects of some of their products. It includes an analysis of some difficulties arising in Artificial Intelligence and an exploration of values in Chemistry and in Engineering. The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts is an advanced exploration of the various dimensions of the relations between technology and morality
Discipline Filosofiche (2018-1)
Discipline Filosofiche (2018-1) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discipline Filosofiche (2018-1) write by Riccardo Chiaradonna. This book was released on 2018. Discipline Filosofiche (2018-1) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Riccardo Chiaradonna, Filippo Forcignanò e Franco Trabattoni, Presentazione • Francesco Fronterotta, “Do the Gods Play Dice?”. Sensible Sequentialism and Fuzzy Logic in Plato’s Timaeus • Riccardo Chiaradonna, Massimo Marraffa, Ontology and the Self: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives • Gabriele Galluzzo, Are Matter and Form Parts? Aristotle’s and Neo-Aristotelian Hylomorphism • Riin Sirkel, Essence and Cause: Making Something Be What It Is • Marilù Papandreou, Aristotle’s Hylomorphism and The Contemporary Metaphysics of Artefacts • Gabriele De Anna, Substance, Form, and Modality • Maddalena Bonelli, Dipendenza e indipendenza ontologica: la modernità della posizione peripatetica • Enrico Postiglione, Aristotle on the Distribution of Consciousness • Diego Zucca, Neo-Aristotelian Biofunctionalism • Matteo Pietropaoli, L’οὐσία come presenza costante e l’esser vero come autentico essere. Heidegger interprete di Aristotele, Metafisica Θ 10
Philosophy of Engineering, East and West
Philosophy of Engineering, East and West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy of Engineering, East and West write by Carl Mitcham. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Philosophy of Engineering, East and West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This co-edited volume compares Chinese and Western experiences of engineering, technology, and development. In doing so, it builds a bridge between the East and West and advances a dialogue in the philosophy of engineering. Divided into three parts, the book starts with studies on epistemological and ontological issues, with a special focus on engineering design, creativity, management, feasibility, and sustainability. Part II considers relationships between the history and philosophy of engineering, and includes a general argument for the necessity of dialogue between history and philosophy. It continues with a general introduction to traditional Chinese attitudes toward engineering and technology, and philosophical case studies of the Chinese steel industry, railroads, and cybernetics in the Soviet Union. Part III focuses on engineering, ethics, and society, with chapters on engineering education and practice in China and the West. The book’s analyses of the interactions of science, engineering, ethics, politics, and policy in different societal contexts are of special interest. The volume as a whole marks a new stage in the emergence of the philosophy of engineering as a new regionalization of philosophy. This carefully edited interdisciplinary volume grew out of an international conference on the philosophy of engineering hosted by the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. It includes 30 contributions by leading philosophers, social scientists, and engineers from Australia, China, Europe, and the United States.
