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Problem-Solving Technologies: A User-Friendly Philosophy(Philosophy, Technology and Society)


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From hammers to robots, this book embarks on a comprehensive metaphysical exploration of how we should understand and study technological objects and systems. It reconstructs the metaphysics of technology and offers a unique perspective on the identification and functional classification of objects. Arguing that universal and static approaches are ill-suited to capture relational properties like usefulness, the book introduces a novel approach, called activity realism, which recognises the dynamic identities that objects acquire by playing roles in different activities. How can the role and impact of technologies on human activities be incorporated into the metaphysical study of technologies? How do technologies affect the reality of scientifically postulated entities? How can we functionally distinguish between different types of technologies? Problem-Solving Technologies: A User-Friendly Philosophy engages with such fundamental questions. In this thought-provoking book, the study of objects and their categorisations is paired with an examination of the activities in which they play a role. The result is a practically useful philosophy that helps to navigate the conceptual complexities of modern technology.

Table of Contents:
1.Introduction Part I: The General Categorisation 2.Artificial Categorisations 3.A User-Friendly Metaphysics 4.Problem Solving Technologies 5.The Conditions for the Possibility of Technologies Part II: The Particular Categorisation 6.A Taxonomy of Function Theories 7.Conservative Functions vs. Authentic Functions 8.A User-Friendly Theory of Function Part III: Ontology 9.Existence of Artefacts 10.Reality of Technologies Part IV: Activity Realism in Practice 11.Scientific Reality 12.The Human, the Technological and the Limitations of Autonomous Systems References Index

About the Author :
Sadjad Soltanzadeh is a researcher at the Asser Institute, University of Amsterdam.

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As technology continues to dominate our lives in ever more invasive ways, it is imperative that we improve our understanding of it. Soltanzadeh’s thought-provoking study is a further welcome and important step. His problem-solving account of technology is clearly and persuasively argued. It should prove valuable to researchers, students and anyone interested in the current direction of technological development. What is technology? Sadjad Soltanzadeh develops an original answer to this perplexing question. His activity realist approach to the metaphysics of technology is clearly articulated and the case he makes for preferring it to available alternatives is rigorously developed. Required reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of technology. Soltanzadeh offers a contribution to the metaphysics of technology…. The result is a useful intervention in long-running conversations within the philosophy of technology. The exposition is clear, although it necessarily proceeds at a high level of abstraction at certain points and demands some familiarity with the philosophical traditions with which it engages. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781538157879
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 218
  • Series Title: Philosophy, Technology and Society
  • Sub Title: A User-Friendly Philosophy
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 153815787X
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 526 gr


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