A philosophy of material culture : action, function, and mind / Beth Preston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preston, Beth., author.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Philosophy.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 crit

Contents:

pt. I. Action

pt. II. Function.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-08870-5

1-283-97260-3

0-203-06984-6

1-135-08871-3

9780203069844

OCLC:

827208983