| Title |
Artefacts and Family Resemblance
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Review of Philosophy and Psychology, June 2013
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13164-013-0145-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pawel Garbacz |
| Abstract |
I develop in this paper a conception of artefacts based on L. Wittgenstein's idea of family resemblance. My approach peruses the notion of frame, which was invented in cognitive psychology as an operationisable extension of this philosophical idea. Following the metaphor of life-cycle I show how this schematic notion of frame may be filled with the content relevant for artefacts if we consider them from the point of view of their histories. The resulting conception of artefacts provides a new insight into the current debate on artefact categorisation. |
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| Researcher | 2 | 15% |
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