Problem-Solving Technologies

Sadjad Soltanzadeh

doi:10.5771/9781538157886

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-5787-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-5788-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 206
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. Historical Context No access
2. Metaphysical Context No access
3. Anthropological Context No access
4. Outline No access
1. 1. Usefulness No access
  2. 1. The Modification Condition No access
    2. The Intention Condition No access
  3. Assessing the Artefact/Non-artefact Distinction No access
  4. Entity Realism No access
  5. Assessing the Entity Realist Approach No access
  6. Summary No access
2. 1. Activity Realism No access
  2. The Usefulness of the Activity Realist Approach No access
  3. Comparing the Two Approaches No access
  4. Final Pushbacks No access
  5. Summary No access
3. 1. Defining Technology No access
  2. Degrees of Technological-ness No access
  3. Responding to Objections No access
  4. Summary No access
4. 1. The Humanism/Non-humanism Debate No access
  2. 1. The Metaphysical Dimensions No access
  3. Non-humanist Conditions No access
  4. 1. Revisiting Problem-Solving Activities No access
    2. Human Users No access
    3. The Mind-Dependence of Problems No access
    4. Human Evaluators No access
  5. Cognitive Objects in Problem-Solving Activities No access
  6. Summary No access
1. 1. Ways of Studying Function No access
  2. 1. Intentional Theories No access
    2. Capacity Based and Causal-Role Theories No access
    3. Evolutionary Theories No access
  3. Justification of Function Ascriptions No access
  4. 1. Creative Use No access
    2. Linguistic Values of Evolutionary Theories No access
  5. Summary No access
2. 1. 1. Preston’s Theory No access
  2. Assessing Entity Realist Theories of Function No access
  3. Entity Realism, the Causal Theory of Reference and the Study of Kinds No access
  4. From Internalist to Externalist Theories No access
  5. From Intentional to Belief-based Theories No access
  6. Summary No access
3. 1. The Belief-based Consequentialist Theory No access
  2. Justified Beliefs vs. Truth No access
  3. Black Boxes and Non-material Consequences No access
  4. Summary No access
1. 1. An Entity Realist Notion of Being No access
  2. Entity Realism and the Ontology of Artefacts No access
  3. How to Assign Existence to Artefacts No access
  4. Summary No access
2. 1. An Activity Realist Notion of Being No access
  2. The Problem-based Reality of Technologies No access
  3. Existing Realities No access
  4. Language and Reality No access
  5. Summary No access
1. 1. Clarifying Terminology No access
  2. The Reality of Scientific Entities No access
  3. The Technology-Dependent Reality of Unobservable Entities No access
  4. Comparing the Three Activities No access
  5. Conservatism and Degrees of the Technology-Dependence of Sciences No access
  6. Summary No access
2. 1. Activity Realism and Autonomous Systems No access
  2. Norms and Goals of Activities No access
  3. Replaceable Activities No access
  4. 1. The Epistemic Condition of Performance No access
    2. The Logical Condition of Engagement No access
  5. Design Ramifications No access
  6. Summary No access
References No access Pages 191 - 198
Index No access Pages 199 - 204
About the Author No access Pages 205 - 206