naa a22 4500 510783945 CHVBK 20180411083256.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13164-013-0143-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13164-013-0143-6 Nanay Bence University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium and Peterhouse, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK aut Artifact Categorization and the Modal Theory of Artifact Function [Elektronische Daten] [Bence Nanay] Philosophers and psychologists widely hold that artifact categories - just like biological categories - are individuated by their function. But recent empirical findings in psychology question this assumption. My proposal is to suggest a way of squaring these findings with the central role function should play in individuating artifact categories. But in order to do so, we need to give up on the standard account of artifact function, according to which function is fixed by design, and replace it with a more context-sensitive account, according to which function attributions depend on the explanatory context and, as a result, categorization also depends on the explanatory context, just as the empirical findings from psychology suggest. I argue that the recent ‘modal theory of function' originally proposed to explain biological function, is capable of providing such an account of artifact function. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Review of Philosophy and Psychology Springer Netherlands 4/3(2013-09-01), 515-526 1878-5158 4:3<515 2013 4 13164 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-013-0143-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-013-0143-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nanay Bence University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium and Peterhouse, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Philosophy and Psychology Springer Netherlands 4/3(2013-09-01), 515-526 1878-5158 4:3<515 2013 4 13164 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer