| 期刊全称 | Artefact Kinds | | 期刊简称 | Ontology and the Hum | | 影响因子2023 | Maarten Franssen,Peter Kroes,Pieter E. Vermaas | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Addresses ontologies of artefact kinds in engineering practice.Offers practical as well as theoretical implications.Presents important developments in both formal ontology and ontology engineering? | | 学科分类 | Synthese Library | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | .This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification. What it adds to previous discussions of these topics is that it addresses them with respect to human-made entities, that is, artefacts. As the chapters in the book show, questions of identity and classification require other treatments and lead to other answers for artefacts than for natural entities. These answers are of interest to philosophers not only for their clarification of artefacts as a category of things but also for the new light they may shed on these issue with respect to to natural entities. .This volume is structured in three parts. The contributions in Part I address basic ontological and metaphysical questions in relation to artefact kinds: How should we conceive of artefact kinds? Are they real kinds? How are identity conditions for artefacts and artefact kinds related? The contributions in Part II address meta-ontological questions: What, exactly, should an ontological account of artefact kinds provide us with? What scope can it aim for? Which ways of approaching the ontology of artefact kinds are there, how promising ar | | Pindex | Book 2014 |
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