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  1. The dual nature of technical artefacts.Peter Kroes & Anthonie Meijers - 2006 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (1):1-4.
  2. Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives.Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.) - 2009 - MIT Press.
    This volume takes on both issues and examines the relationship between organisms and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.
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    Philosophy of Technology After the Empirical Turn.Anthonie W. M. Meijers, Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas & Maarten Franssen (eds.) - 2016 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This volume features 16 essays on the philosophy of technology that discuss its identity, its position in philosophy in general, and the role of empirical studies in philosophical analyses of engineering ethics and engineering practices. This volume is published about fifteen years after Peter Kroes and Anthonie Meijers published a collection of papers under the title The empirical turn in the philosophy of technology, in which they called for a reorientation toward the practice of engineering, and sketched the likely benefits (...)
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    Artefact Kinds: Ontology and the Human-made World.Maarten Franssen, Peter Kroes, Pieter Vermaas & Thomas A. C. Reydon (eds.) - 2013 - Cham: Synthese Library.
    One way to address such questions about artifact kinds is to look for clues in the available literature on parallel questions that have been posed with respect to kinds in the natural domain. Philosophers have long been concerned with the ...
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    The moral status of technical artefacts.Peter Kroes (ed.) - 2014 - Springer.
    This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors’ contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around technologies, and the moral significance of technology. The editors’ introduction explains that as ‘agents’ rather than simply passive instruments, technical artefacts may actively influence their users, changing the way they perceive the world, the way they act in the (...)
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  6. The Empirical turn in the philosophy of technology.Peter Kroes & Anthonie Meijers (eds.) - 2001 - New York: JAI.
    THERE'S NO TURN LIKE THE EMPIRICAL TURN Arie Rip Philosophers of technology now turn to the phenomena in order to learn from them - always, and unavoidably, ...
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    Can We Make Sense of the Notion of Trustworthy Technology?Philip J. Nickel, Maarten Franssen & Peter Kroes - 2010 - Knowledge, Technology & Policy 23 (3):429-444.
    In this paper we raise the question whether technological artifacts can properly speaking be trusted or said to be trustworthy. First, we set out some prevalent accounts of trust and trustworthiness and explain how they compare with the engineer’s notion of reliability. We distinguish between pure rational-choice accounts of trust, which do not differ in principle from mere judgments of reliability, and what we call “motivation-attributing” accounts of trust, which attribute specific motivations to trustworthy entities. Then we consider some examples (...)
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    Coherence of structural and functional descriptions of technical artefacts.Peter Kroes - 2006 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (1):137-151.
    Structural and functional descriptions of technical artefacts play an important role in engineering practice. A complete description of a technical artefact involves a description of both functional and structural features. Engineers, moreover, assume that there is an intimate relationship between the function and structure of technical artefacts and they reason from functional properties to structural ones and vice versa. This raises the question of how structural and functional descriptions are related. The kind of inference patterns that establish coherence between structural (...)
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    Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture.Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.) - 2007 - Springer.
    This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture.
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  10. Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions.Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
     
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  11. Structural analogies between physical systems.Peter Kroes - 1989 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 (2):145-154.
    Structural analogies between physical laws have received considerable attention from philosospheres of science. This paper, however, focusses on structural analogies between physical systems; this type of analogy plays an important role in the physical and technological sciences. A formal, set-theoretic description of structural analogies between physical systems is presented, and it is shown that a structural analogy between systems does not require a structural analogy with regard to the laws involved, nor conversely.
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    Experiments on Socio-Technical Systems: The Problem of Control.Peter Kroes - 2016 - Science and Engineering Ethics 22 (3):633-645.
    My aim is to question whether the introduction of new technologies in society may be considered to be genuine experiments. I will argue that they are not, at least not in the sense in which the notion of experiment is being used in the natural and social sciences. If the introduction of a new technology in society is interpreted as an experiment, then we are dealing with a notion of experiment that differs in an important respect from the notion of (...)
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    Dual-Nature and collectivist frameworks for technical artefacts: a constructive comparison.Wybo Houkes, Peter Kroes, Anthonie Meijers & Pieter E. Vermaas - 2011 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42 (1):198-205.
    This paper systematically compares two frameworks for analysing technical artefacts: the Dual-Nature approach, exemplified by the contributions to Kroes and Meijers , and the collectivist approach advocated by Schyfter , following Kusch . After describing the main tenets of both approaches, we show that there is significant overlap between them: both frameworks analyse the most typical cases of artefact use, albeit in different terms, but to largely the same extent. Then, we describe several kinds of cases for which the frameworks (...)
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    A Semantics for Means-end Relations.Jesse Hughes, Peter Kroes & Sjoerd Zwart - 2007 - Synthese 158 (2):207-231.
    There has been considerable work on practical reasoning in artificial intelligence and also in philosophy. Typically, such reasoning includes premises regarding means–end relations. A clear semantics for such relations is needed in order to evaluate proposed syllogisms. In this paper, we provide a formal semantics for means–end relations, in particular for necessary and sufficient means–end relations. Our semantics includes a non-monotonic conditional operator, so that related practical reasoning is naturally defeasible. This work is primarily an exercise in conceptual analysis, aimed (...)
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  15. Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence.Peter Kroes - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
     
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    Technological Explanations.Peter Kroes - 1998 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 3 (3):124-134.
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    Objective versus minddependent theories of time flow.Peter Kroes - 1984 - Synthese 61 (3):423 - 446.
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  18. L. HORSTEN and P. WELCH/The undecidability of propositional adaptive logic 41.J. Hughes, P. Kroes & S. Zwart - 2007 - Synthese 158 (1):158.
     
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  19. Nature, Aesthetic Values, and Urban Design: Building the Natural City.Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore & Glenn Parsons - 2007 - In Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture. Springer.
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    Science, Technology and Experiments; The Natural versus the Artificial.Peter Kroes - 1994 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1994:431-440.
    Hacking has maintained that in experiments phenomena are created, not discovered, and that scientific entities are tools for doing. These claims undermine the distinction between the natural and the artificial: phenomena and scientific entities become artifacts. Hacking's view raises the question whether the distinction between the natural and the artificial has to be given up. The paper argues 1) that phenomena are created, but in a sense that does not undermine the distinction between the natural and the artificial, 2) that (...)
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    Technical Functions as Dispositions.Peter Kroes - 2001 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 5 (3):105-115.
    The paper argues that in order to understand the nature of technological knowledge (i.e., knowledge of technical artefacts as distinct from knowledge of natural objects) it is necessary to develop an epistemology of technical functions. This epistemology has to address the problem of the meaning of the notion of function. In the dominant interpretations, functions are considered to be dispositions, comparable to physical dispositions such as fragility and solubility. It is argued that this conception of functions is principally flawed. With (...)
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    Sociotechnical Systems.Maarten Franssen & Peter Kroes - 2012 - In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 223–226.
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  23. Toward an Axiological Turn in the Philosophy of Technology.Anthonie Meijers & Peter Kroes - 2016 - In Anthonie W. M. Meijers, Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas & Maarten Franssen (eds.), Philosophy of Technology After the Empirical Turn. Cham: Springer Verlag.
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  24. Re-Designing Humankind: The Rise of Cyborgs, a Desirable Goal?Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore, Daniela Cerqui & Kevin Warwick - 2007 - In Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture. Springer.
  25. Reflections on Rational Goals in Science and Technology; A Comment on Olsson.Peter Kroes - 2015 - In Sven Ove Hansson (ed.), The Role of Technology in Science: Philosophical Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag.
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    Screwdriver Philosophy; Searle's analysis of technical functions.Peter Kroes - 2003 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 6 (3):131-140.
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    The clock paradox, or how to get rid of absolute time.Peter Kroes - 1983 - Philosophy of Science 50 (1):159-163.
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    Engineering Design.Peter Kroes - 2012 - In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 112–117.
    This chapter contains sections titled: General Characterization A Design The Design Process Rationality and Creativity in Engineering Design References and Further Reading.
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  29. Waarden voor-bij wetenschap.G. Debrock, P. Kroes & P. Scheurer - 1986 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 48 (2):355-355.
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  30. Beyond Inevitability: Emphasizing the Role of Intention and Ethical Responsibility in Engineering Design.Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore, Kathryn A. Neeley & Heinz C. Luegenbiehl - 2007 - In Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture. Springer.
     
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  31. Cities, Aesthetics, and Human Community: Some Thoughts on the Limits of Design.Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore & J. Craig Hanks - 2007 - In Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture. Springer.
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  32. Diverse Designing: Sorting Out Function and Intention in Artifacts.Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore & Ted Cavanagh - 2007 - In Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture. Springer.
     
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  33. Design: Structure, Process, and Function: A Systems Methodology Perspective.Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore & Kristo Miettinen - 2007 - In Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture. Springer.
     
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  34. Expert Culture, Representation, and Public Choice: Architectural Renderings as the Editing of Reality.Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore & Rebecca Webber - 2007 - In Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture. Springer.
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    Filosofie van de natuurkunde.Peter Kroes - 1987
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  36. Moral values in technical artifacts.Peter Kroes - 2020 - In Andrew Wells Garnar & Ashley Shew (eds.), Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science and Technology. Lanham: Lexington Books.
     
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    Philosophy of Science and the Technological Dimension of Science in Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change.Peter Kroes - 1989 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 111:375-382.
    Modern science forms an inseparable whole with modern technology. A good deal, if not the greater part of present-day scientific research takes place in industrial research laboratories where science is practised in a technological setting and is exploited for technological ends. In The Netherlands, for instance, 60 to 70% of all the research in physics takes place in, or is financed by industry. For other highly industrialised countries the situation is not very much different. The foregoing means that scientists working (...)
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  38. Substantive and Procedural Contexts of Engineering Design.Peter Kroes & Sjoerd Zwart - 2015 - In Byron Newberry, Carl Mitcham, Martin Meganck, Andrew Jamison, Christelle Didier & Steen Hyldgaard Christensen (eds.), Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values: Engineering Education and Practice in Context. Springer Verlag.
     
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  39. Technological Development and Science in the Industrial Age: New Perspectives on the Science Technology Relationship.P. Kroes, M. Bakker & D. Edgerton - 1995 - Annals of Science 52 (4):424-424.
  40. Editorial Introduction: Putting the Empirical Turn into Perspective.Anthonie Meijers, Peter Kroes, Pieter Vermaas & Maarten Franssen - 2016 - In Anthonie W. M. Meijers, Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas & Maarten Franssen (eds.), Philosophy of Technology After the Empirical Turn. Cham: Springer Verlag.
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    Introduction: Technology and Normativity.Ibo van de Poel & Peter Kroes - 2006 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 10 (1):1-6.
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    The Conceptual Elusiveness of Engineering Functions.Pieter E. Vermaas, Dingmar van Eck & Peter Kroes - 2013 - Philosophy and Technology 26 (2):159-185.
    In this paper, we describe the conceptual elusiveness of the notion of function as used in engineering practice. We argue that it should be accepted as an ambiguous notion, and then review philosophical argumentations in which engineering functions occur in order to identify the consequences of this ambiguity. Function is a key notion in engineering, yet is used by engineers systematically in a variety of meanings. First, we demonstrate that this ambiguous use is rational for engineers by considering the role (...)
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    Adaptation of Scientific Knowledge to an Intellectual Environment. Paul Forman's "Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918?1927": Analysis and Criticism. [REVIEW]P. Kraft & P. Kroes - 1984 - Centaurus 27 (1):76-99.
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    An Architectonic for Science. Wolfgang Balzer, C. Ulises Moulines, Joseph D. Sneed. [REVIEW]Peter Kroes - 1990 - Philosophy of Science 57 (2):349-350.
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    The Conceptual Elusiveness of Engineering Functions. [REVIEW]Pieter E. Vermaas, Dingmar Eck & Peter Kroes - 2013 - Philosophy and Technology 26 (2):159-185.
    In this paper, we describe the conceptual elusiveness of the notion of function as used in engineering practice. We argue that it should be accepted as an ambiguous notion, and then review philosophical argumentations in which engineering functions occur in order to identify the consequences of this ambiguity. Function is a key notion in engineering, yet is used by engineers systematically in a variety of meanings. First, we demonstrate that this ambiguous use is rational for engineers by considering the role (...)
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