This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis. Pervasiv

Simon J. Evnine explores the view (which he calls amorphic hylomorphism) that some objects have matter from which they are distinct but that this distinctness i

Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and

An investigation of the analogy between evolutionaryprocesses and the processes of intelligent design used in thelanguage of modern biology.

Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen