Problem-Solving Technologies - A User-Friendly Philosophy

Problem Solving Technologies provides a user friendly understanding of technological objects including what they are and how the function in our lives.

List of contents

1. Introduction

Part I: The General Categorisation of Technology

Artificial Categorisations

A User-Friendly Metaphysics

Problem Solving Technologies

The Conditions for the Possibility of Technologies

Part II: The Particular Categorisation of Technologies

A Taxonomy of Function Theories

Conservative Functions vs. Authentic Functions

A User-Friendly Theory of Function

Part III: Ontology

Existence of Artefacts

Reality of Technologies

Part IV: Activity Realism in Practice

On the Reality of Scientific Entities

The Human, the Technological, and the Limitations of Autonomous Systems

Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sadjad Soltanzadeh is a Postdoctoral researcher in ethics and philosophy of technology. Sadjad is working with the DILEMA project with the goal of understanding the legal, philosophical, and moral importance of human autonomy and human agency in the context of autonomous systems.

Product details

• Authors: Sadjad Soltanzadeh, Sadjad Asser Institute Soltanzadeh
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2022
• EAN: 9781538157879
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5787-9
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Philosophy, Technology and Society
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works