Beaver Dams, Spider Webs, and the Sticky Wicket: An Investigation On What Counts as Technology and What Counts as Knowledge

Philosophers of technology have often considered only the tools and processes used and conducted by humans, but natural structures and man-made structures are not always easily discernable from one another. The complexity of a spider web is not matched by many human-made technologies. Beaver dams, b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shew, Ashley
Other Authors: Science and Technology Studies
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32812
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05152007-135849/