Technical artifact: An integrated perspective

In this paper three perspectives are presented on defining the general notion of technical artifacts in formal ontologies. These perspectives share two intuitions: that technical artifacts are objects that exist by human intervention; and that technical artifacts are to be contrasted to natural entities. Yet the perspectives are different in the way they spell out these intuitions: the relevant human intervention may range from intentional selection to intentional production; and the contrast between technical artifacts and natural entities may be introduced by a constitution relation or by defining properties that set technical artifacts apart. The three perspectives are compared and their similarities and dissimilarities are explored.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Contributo in atti di convegno
Author or Creator: 
Borgo, Stefano [1]
Franssen, Maarten [2]
Garbacz, Pawel [3]
Kitamura, Yoshinobu [4]
Mizoguchi, Riichiro [4]
Vermaas, Pieter E. [2]
Publisher: 
IOS Press, Amsterdam, NLD
Source: 
The fifth international workshop Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, 2011 (FOMI 2011), pp. 3–15, Delft, the Netherlands, 7-8 July 2011
Date: 
2011
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/204838
https://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-785-7-3
info:doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-785-7-3
http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/formal-ontologies-meet-industry-3
urn:isbn:978-1-60750-784-0
Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Stefano Borgo
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