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Artifacts and the Limits of Agentive Authority
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Editeur(s)
Miguel Garcia-Godinez
Maison d'édition
Palgrave/Macmillan
Date de parution
2023
In
Thomasson on Ontology / ed.: Miguel Garcia-Godinez
De la page
209
A la page
241
Revu par les pairs
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Résumé
Amie Thomasson and other proponents of author-intention-based accounts of artifacts hold that an artifact is what its original author(s) intended it to be. By contrast, according to the user-based framework developed by Beth Preston, an artifact’s function is determined by the practices of users and reproducers. In this chapter, I argue that both author-intention-based and user-based frameworks suffer from an overly agent-centric orientation: despite their many interesting differences, both approaches run into difficulties with scenarios in which the attitudes or dispositions of the relevant agents, whether they are authors, users or reproducers, do not serve as a reliable guide on which to base an artifact’s classification as a member of a certain artifact kind. Such alternative categorizations, which conflict with both author-intentions and user-practices, demonstrate the need for a more object-centered alternative perspective concerning prototype production and the nature of artifacts more generally.
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