Problem-Solving Technologies
Subtitle: A User-Friendly Philosophy
Series: Philosophy, Technology, and Society; Philosophy, technology and society
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Blue Ridge Summit
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781538157886
Subjects: Problem solving; Technological innovations; Philosophy; Résolution de problème; Innovations; Philosophie
Description: Chapter 10: Reality of Technologies -- An Activity Realist Notion of Being -- The Problem-based Reality of Technologies -- Existing Realities -- Language and Reality -- Summary -- Part IV: Activity Realism in Practice: Part IV -- Chapter 11: Scientific Reality -- Clarifying Terminology -- The Reality of Scientific Entities -- The Technology-Dependent Reality of Unobservable Entities -- Comparing the Three Activities -- Conservatism and Degrees of the Technology-Dependence of Sciences -- Summary -- Chapter 12: The Human, the Technological and the Limitations of Autonomous Systems.

Problem Solving Technologies provides a user friendly understanding of technological objects including what they are and how the function in our lives.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Activity Realism and Autonomous Systems.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half Title; title: Series Page; title: Title Page; title: Copyright Page; title: Contents; title: Preface; title: Chapter 1: Introduction; title: Historical Context; title: Metaphysical Context; title: Anthropological Context; title: Outline; title: Part I: The General Categorisation: Part I; title: Chapter 2: Artificial Categorisations; title: Usefulness; title: Artefacts; title: The Modification Condition; title: The Intention Condition; title: Assessing the Artefact/Non-artefact Distinction; title: Entity Realism; title: Assessing the Entity Realist Approach; title: Summary; title: Chapter 3: A User-Friendly Metaphysics; title: Activity Realism; title: The Usefulness of the Activity Realist Approach; title: Comparing the Two Approaches; title: Final Pushbacks; title: Summary; title: Chapter 4: Problem-Solving Technologies; title: Defining Technology; title: Degrees of Technological-ness; title: Responding to Objections; title: Summary; title: Chapter 5: The Conditions for the Possibility of Technologies; title: The Humanism/Non-humanism Debate; title: Humanism and Non-humanism in Philosophy of Technology; title: The Metaphysical Dimensions; title: Non-humanist Conditions; title: Humanist Conditions; title: Revisiting Problem-Solving Activities; title: Human Users; title: The Mind-Dependence of Problems; title: Human Evaluators; title: Cognitive Objects in Problem-Solving Activities; title: Summary; title: Part II: The Particular Categorisation: Part II; title: Chapter 6: A Taxonomy of Function Theories; title: Ways of Studying Function; title: Sources of Function; title: Intentional Theories; title: Capacity Based and Causal-Role Theories; title: Evolutionary Theories; title: Justification of Function Ascriptions; title: Linguistic Categorisation of Objects; title: Creative Use; title: Linguistic Values of Evolutionary Theories; title: Summary; title: Chapter 7: Conservative Functions vs. Authentic Functions; title: Entity Realism and Function Essentialism; title: Preston's Theory; title: Assessing Entity Realist Theories of Function; title: Entity Realism, the Causal Theory of Reference and the Study of Kinds; title: From Internalist to Externalist Theories; title: From Intentional to Belief-based Theories; title: Summary; title: Chapter 8: A User-Friendly Theory of Function; title: The Belief-based Consequentialist Theory; title: Justified Beliefs vs. Truth; title: Black Boxes and Non-material Consequences; title: Summary; title: Part III: Ontology: Part III; title: Chapter 9: Existence of Artefacts; title: An Entity Realist Notion of Being; title: Entity Realism and the Ontology of Artefacts; title: How to Assign Existence to Artefacts