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Bloomsbury Design, Function, and Human Flourishing: Or, What to Make of What We Make

Name: Design, Function, and Human Flourishing: Or, What to Make of What We Make
Brand: Bloomsbury
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Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow connects aesthetics and ethics to understand how designed objects acquire and maintain their functions. Building on work in philosophy of technology and design theory, Wittingslow introduces a framework based on Nelson Goodman’s concept of exemplification. He shows how designed objects can exemplify different functions in different contexts of use and evaluation, addressing a key puzzle in design theory: how do we understand objects with conflicting functions? Wittingslow is able to capture how functions can be stable enough to ground normative judgments, while remaining flexible enough to evolve through use and maintenance. This original theory, illustrating how objects shape human capabilities through their exemplified use, presents an alternative way of thinking about objects with conflicting functions. Wittingslows philosophical analysis, grounded in design examples, creates new tools for ethical evaluation and lays the foundations for understanding functional beauty and analyzing potential design futures.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1350576964
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Engineering & Technology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 February 2027
Listed Since: 20 March 2026

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