Material Culture and Technological Determinism

This dissertation has two results. First, I argue that each of the two basic components of technological determinism (TD)—what I call the inexorability thesis and the autonomy thesis—are plausible claims on a naturalistic stance. Second, I argue that a normative model for the design of cognitive sys...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacIntyre, Hector
Other Authors: Sneddon, Andrew
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31939
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-2703