Abstract

PARENTE, Diego. La idea de malfunción en artefactos técnicos. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2010, vol.5, n.14, pp.131-141. ISSN 1850-0013.

This article attempts to make some clarifications about the problem of normativity in the field of technical artifacts. For this purpose two strategies are presented. The first one contrasts technical and non-artificial objects through a comparison between artifactual and biological functions. The second strategy is to characterize the idea of 'malfunction' and to show its scope and peculiarities, to finally reconstruct conditions required for a legitimate attribution of artifactual malfunction.

Keywords : Malfunction; Technical artifact; Normativity.

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