
Published online:
22 August 2013
Published in print:
30 January 2009
Online ISBN:
9780262255271
Print ISBN:
9780262113212
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10.1 Artifacts and the Stance of Design 10.1 Artifacts and the Stance of Design
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10.2 Doubts About the Design Stance 10.2 Doubts About the Design Stance
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10.3 A Functional Stance for the Design Stance 10.3 A Functional Stance for the Design Stance
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10.4 Conclusion 10.4 Conclusion
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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Notes Notes
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References References
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Chapter
10 Being For: A Philosophical Hypothesis About the Structure of Functional Knowledge
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Published:January 2009
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Romano, Giacomo, 'Being For: A Philosophical Hypothesis About the Structure of Functional Knowledge', in Ulrich Krohs, and Peter Kroes (eds), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives (Cambridge, MA , 2009; online edn, MIT Press Scholarship Online, 22 Aug. 2013), https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262113212.003.0010, accessed 4 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter describes the user's capacity to conceptualize the function that a designer intended for an artifact and the role that that function plays in distinguishing between artifactual and natural objects. It proposes the hypothesis that the human cognitive apparatus comprises a Functional Stance. It also explains some ideas that could be useful when giving a more satisfactory characterization of the Design Stance. This chapter shows that the functional knowledge could be a specialized and basic constitutive component of the more general attitude of the human mind to categorize the objects of this world into artifacts and natural entities.
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