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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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/ |