Technical Functions: On the Use and Design of Artefacts (Hardcover, 2010)

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Use, plans and designing 2.1 Artefacts and actions 2.2 Use plans 2.3 Planning in use 2.4 Designing plans 2.6 Standards for use plans 2.7 Evaluating artefact use and design Chapter 3 Function theories 3.1 Function theories for technical artefacts 3.2 The intentional function theory 3.3 Cummins.causal-role theory of functions 3.4 The evolutionist function theory 3.5 Combining the basic theories 4.1 A use-plan approach towards functions 4.2 Function ascriptions 4.3 Assessing the function ascriptions 4.4 Functional roles Chapter 5 Malfunctioning 5.1 The phenomenon of artefact malfunctioning 5.2 Having capacities versus exercising them 5.3 Artefact normativity Chapter 6 Engineering, science and biology 6.2 Engineering 6.3 Physics and chemistry 6.4 Biology 6.5 A biological and generalised ICE-theory Chapter 7 The nature of artefacts 7.1 Functions as conceptual drawbridges 7.2 Against function essentialism 7.3 Plan relativism 7.4 Useful and man-made materials