The bootstrapped artefact: a collectivist account of technological ontology, functions, and normativity

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 102-111

  Schyfter, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dual nature; Normativity of artefacts; Performative theory of social institutions; Technological artefacts; Technological functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649394206     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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