Problem-Solving Technologies
A User-Friendly Philosophy
Seiten
2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5787-9 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5787-9 (ISBN)
Problem Solving Technologies provides a user friendly understanding of technological objects including what they are and how the function in our lives.
In our everyday activities we use material objects in different shapes and forms to solve various practical problems. We may use a knife to tighten a screw, turn an old washing machine drum into a fireplace, use the edge of a kitchen countertop to open a bottle, or place a hammer on the puncture patch glued to a bike’s inner tube to exert pressure on the patch until the glue dries. How should we identify these objects? What functions do they have?
If we want to understand the role which material objects play in our everyday activities, we need to
move away from universal identifications of objects. This is because universal identifications are not sensitive to contextual differences and cannot describe how each individual user connects to their surrounding objects in an infinite variety of contexts. Problem Solving Technologies provides a user-friendly understanding of technological objects. This book develops a framework to characterise and categorize technological objects at the level of users’ subjective experiences.
In our everyday activities we use material objects in different shapes and forms to solve various practical problems. We may use a knife to tighten a screw, turn an old washing machine drum into a fireplace, use the edge of a kitchen countertop to open a bottle, or place a hammer on the puncture patch glued to a bike’s inner tube to exert pressure on the patch until the glue dries. How should we identify these objects? What functions do they have?
If we want to understand the role which material objects play in our everyday activities, we need to
move away from universal identifications of objects. This is because universal identifications are not sensitive to contextual differences and cannot describe how each individual user connects to their surrounding objects in an infinite variety of contexts. Problem Solving Technologies provides a user-friendly understanding of technological objects. This book develops a framework to characterise and categorize technological objects at the level of users’ subjective experiences.
Sadjad Soltanzadeh is a researcher at the Asser Institute, University of Amsterdam.
Introduction
Part I: The General Categorisation of Technology
Artificial Categorisations
A User-Friendly Metaphysics
Problem Solving Technologies
The Conditions for the Possibility of Technologies
Part II: The Particular Categorisation of Technologies
A Taxonomy of Function Theories
Conservative Functions vs. Authentic Functions
A User-Friendly Theory of Function
Part III: Ontology
Existence of Artefacts
Reality of Technologies
Part IV: Activity Realism in Practice
On the Reality of Scientific Entities
The Human, the Technological, and the Limitations of Autonomous Systems
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 526 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-5787-X / 153815787X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-5787-9 / 9781538157879 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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