ISBN:
9780415623087
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version A Philosophy of Material Culture: Action, Function, and Mind
DDC:
306.4/6
Keywords:
Material culture ; Philosophy
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action and a non-intentionalist account of function in material culture. Preston argues that material culture essentially involves activities of production and use; she therefore adopts an action-theoretic foundation for a philosophy of material culture. Part 1 illustrates this foundation through a critiqu
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; A Philosophy of Material Culture; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Memoirs of a Material Girl; Terms and Conditions; Overview; Part I: Action; 1. The Centralized Control Model; Aristotle; Marx; Dipert; The Centralized Control Model; Centralization and Collaboration; Control and Improvisation; 2. Taking Improvisation Seriously; Sounds Like a Plan; Planner Takes All; To Improvise or Not to Improvise; Doing Things on Purpose; 3. Coming to Terms with Collaboration; 'We Have to Improvise'; Collaborating with the Enemy; Sorting Out the Social; Corralling Crusoe
Description / Table of Contents:
4. How to ImproviseWhy Songwriting?; Strategies for Coordinating Action; The Appropriate-and-Extend Strategy; The Proliferate-and-Select Strategy; Turn-Taking Strategies; Practices, Habits, and the Like; Part II: Function; 5. Proper Function and System Function; Prelude: The Phenomenology of Function; Biological Function: Two Theories; What Price Unification?; Proper Function and System Function in Material Culture; 6. The Use and Abuse of Intention; Intentionalist Approaches to Function in Material Culture; Novel Prototypes; Phantom Functions; 7. Reproduction and Innovation
Description / Table of Contents:
Growing and MakingAristotle; Ingold's Challenge; Proper Functions and Purposes; System Functions and Innovation; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; References; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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