Beth Preston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3874016 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Beth Preston |
| NOMBRES | Beth |
| APELLIDO | Preston |
| FIRMA | PRESTON B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Georgia |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Technology and Human Agency
Sustainable technology is a microcosm that illuminates the relationship between technology and human agency. We tend to think about sustainability in terms of the properties of things. However, technology is not just things but techniques which have their own bearing on sustainability, for users may employ sustainable technologies in unsustainable ways. Clueless or stymied users may be managed through education or redesign; however, there are int…
The Epistemic Role of Technical Functions
Technical functions of artifacts are commonly distinguished from their social functions and from biological functions of organisms. Schemes for classifying functions often encounter what the author calls the continuum problem—the imperceptible merger of function kinds. This is a special case of a debate about natural kinds in philosophy of science, which has resulted in a turn to an epistemological construal of kinds, in contrast to the tradition…
A Philosophy of Material Culture
Introduction Part 1: Action in Material Culture 1. The Centralized Control Model 2. Taking Improvisation Seriously 3. Coming to Terms with Collaboration 4. How to Improvise Part 2: Function in Material Culture 5. Proper Function and System Function 6. The Use and Abuse of Intention 7. Reproduction and Innovation. Conclusion
Synthetic biology as red herring
Social context and artefact function
Of Marigold Beer
Vermaas and Houkes advance four desiderata for theories of artifact function, and classify such theories into non-intentionalist reproduction theories on the one hand and intentionalist non-reproduction theories on the other. They argue that non-intentionalist reproduction theories fail to satisfy their fourth desideratum. They maintain that only an intentionalist non-reproduction theory can satisfy all the desiderata, and they offer a version th…
Merleau-Ponty and feminine embodied existence
Behaviorism and mentalism
Heidegger and Artificial Intelligence
Two decades ago Hubert Dreyfus launched a critique of AI which was largely inspired by the work of Martin Heidegger. He has continued to press this critique, but it has not served to stem the flood of computational enthusiasm even among philosophers, never mind among the practitioners of computation themselves. AI has become a flourishing academic industry, and the computational theory of mind is thriving in psychology and philosophy departments …
Of Marigold Beer
Vermaas and Houkes advance four desiderata for theories of artifact function, and classify such theories into non-intentionalist reproduction theories on the one hand and intentionalist non-reproduction theories on the other. They argue that non-intentionalist reproduction theories fail to satisfy their fourth desideratum. They maintain that only an intentionalist non-reproduction theory can satisfy all the desiderata, and they offer a version th…
Merleau-Ponty and feminine embodied existence
Synthetic biology as red herring
Heidegger and Artificial Intelligence
Two decades ago Hubert Dreyfus launched a critique of AI which was largely inspired by the work of Martin Heidegger. He has continued to press this critique, but it has not served to stem the flood of computational enthusiasm even among philosophers, never mind among the practitioners of computation themselves. AI has become a flourishing academic industry, and the computational theory of mind is thriving in psychology and philosophy departments …
Behaviorism and mentalism
Merleau-Ponty and feminine embodied existence
Of Marigold Beer
Vermaas and Houkes advance four desiderata for theories of artifact function, and classify such theories into non-intentionalist reproduction theories on the one hand and intentionalist non-reproduction theories on the other. They argue that non-intentionalist reproduction theories fail to satisfy their fourth desideratum. They maintain that only an intentionalist non-reproduction theory can satisfy all the desiderata, and they offer a version th…
Social context and artefact function
A Philosophy of Material Culture
Introduction Part 1: Action in Material Culture 1. The Centralized Control Model 2. Taking Improvisation Seriously 3. Coming to Terms with Collaboration 4. How to Improvise Part 2: Function in Material Culture 5. Proper Function and System Function 6. The Use and Abuse of Intention 7. Reproduction and Innovation. Conclusion
Synthetic biology as red herring
The Epistemic Role of Technical Functions
Technical functions of artifacts are commonly distinguished from their social functions and from biological functions of organisms. Schemes for classifying functions often encounter what the author calls the continuum problem—the imperceptible merger of function kinds. This is a special case of a debate about natural kinds in philosophy of science, which has resulted in a turn to an epistemological construal of kinds, in contrast to the tradition…
Technology and Human Agency
Sustainable technology is a microcosm that illuminates the relationship between technology and human agency. We tend to think about sustainability in terms of the properties of things. However, technology is not just things but techniques which have their own bearing on sustainability, for users may employ sustainable technologies in unsustainable ways. Clueless or stymied users may be managed through education or redesign; however, there are int…
Epistemology (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (3 obras) · Cognitive science (3 obras) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras)