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DOI 10.1007/s11229-011-9885-9 The design stance and its artefacts
, 2010
"... © The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract In this paper we disambiguate the design stance as proposed by Daniel C. Dennett, focusing on its application to technical artefacts. Analysing Dennett’s work and developing his approach towards interpretin ..."
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© The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract In this paper we disambiguate the design stance as proposed by Daniel C. Dennett, focusing on its application to technical artefacts. Analysing Dennett’s work and developing his approach towards interpreting entities, we show that there are two ways of spelling out the design stance, one that presuppose also adopting Dennett’s intentional stance for describing a designing agent, and a second that does not. We argue against taking one of these ways as giving the correct formulation of the design stance in Dennett’s approach, but propose to replace Dennett’s original design stance by two design stances: an intentional designer stance that incorporates the inten-tional stance, and a teleological design stance that does not. Our arguments focus on descriptions of technical artefacts: drawing on research in engineering, cognitive psychology and archaeology we show that both design stances are used for describing technical artefacts. A first consequence of this disambiguation is that a design stance,
On a Notion of Extensionality for Artifacts
"... The notion of extensionality means in plain sense that properties of complex things can be expressed by means of their simple components, in particular, that two things are identical if and only if certain of their components or features are identical; e.g., the Leibniz Identitas Indiscernibilium Pr ..."
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The notion of extensionality means in plain sense that properties of complex things can be expressed by means of their simple components, in particular, that two things are identical if and only if certain of their components or features are identical; e.g., the Leibniz Identitas Indiscernibilium Principle: two things are identical if each applicable to them operator yields the same result on either; or, extensionality for sets, viz., two sets are identiccal if and only if they consist of identical elements. In mereology, this property is expressed by the statement that two things are identical if their parts are the same. However, building a thing from parts may proceed in various ways and this unexpectedly yields various extensionality principles. Also, building a thing, may lead to things identical with respect to parts but distinct with respect, e.g., to usage. We address the question of extensionality for artifacts, i.e., things produced in some assembling or creative process and we formulate the extensionality principle for artifacts which takes into account the assembling process and requires for identity of two
A formal theory for conceptualizing artefacts and tool manipulations
"... Abstract. Artefacts (physical and institutional) are ubiquitous of our social envi-ronment. We live in a tight network of socio-technical systems, which are systems where agents interact with created objects. There is an increasing need for rigorous methods to model, specify, and reason about socio- ..."
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Abstract. Artefacts (physical and institutional) are ubiquitous of our social envi-ronment. We live in a tight network of socio-technical systems, which are systems where agents interact with created objects. There is an increasing need for rigorous methods to model, specify, and reason about socio-technical systems in general, and about artefacts and their functions in particular. We propose a formal theory that serves at the conceptualization of artefacts and their manipulations: design, implementation, existence, use, and persistence.
