Produced to use: Combining two key intuitions on the nature of artefacts

Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-136

  Houkes, Wybo ^a   Vermaas, Pieter E ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artefact kinds; Artefacts; Functions; Production; Use plans

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875357457     PISSN: 01617249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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