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	title = {Validating function-based design methods: an explanationist perspective},
	journal = {Philosophy and Technology},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {511 - 531},
	abstract = {<p>Analysis of the adequacy of engineering design methods, as well as analysis of the utility of concepts of function often invoked in these methods, is a neglected topic in both philosophy of technology and in engineering proper. In this paper, I present an approachdubbed an explanationist perspectivefor assessing the adequacy of function-based design methods. Engineering design is often intertwined with explanation, for instance, in reverse engineering and subsequent redesign, knowledge base-assisted designing, and diagnostic reasoning. I argue that the presented approach is useful for validating function-based design methods with respect to their explanatory elements and that it supports assessment of the explanatory and design utility of function, and the different conceptualizations thereof, as used in such engineering design methods. I deploy two key desiderata from the explanation literature to assess the viability of function-based design methods: explanatorily relevant difference-making factors and counterfactual understanding defined in terms of what-if-things-had-been-different questions. I explicate the approach and its merits in terms of two case studies drawn from the engineering functional modeling literature: reverse engineering and redesign and malfunction analysis. I close the paper by discussing ramifications of the presented approach for the philosophy of design and the philosophy of explanation.</p>},
	doi = {10.1007/s13347-014-0168-5},
	author = {van Eck, Dingmar}
}
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	year = {2003},
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	abstract = {<p>This paper defends a pragmatical approach to vagueness. The vagueness-adaptive logic VAL is a good reconstruction of and an excellent, instrument for human reasoning processes in which vague predicates are involved. Apart from its proof-theory and semantics, a Sorites-treating model based on it is presented, disarming the paradox. The paper opens perspectives with respect to the construction of theories by means of vague predicates.</p>},
	keywords = {adaptive logic, construction of scientific theories, paraconsistent logic, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, Sorites paradox, vagueness},
	issn = {0039-3215},
	doi = {10.1023/B:STUD.0000009567.21578.0a},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B\%3ASTUD.0000009567.21578.0a},
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	issn = {0035-0869},
	author = {Van Bouwel, Jeroen}
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	year = {2003},
	month = {January 31},
	publisher = {Ghent University},
	type = {phd},
	author = {Van Bouwel, Jeroen}
}
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