The \;conference aims at presenting and discussing unifying accounts of \;artifact functionality including both functions of art and functions \;of technical artifacts. In the past\, research on functions \;concentrated mainly on \;biological functions\, however recently the \;functions of artifacts have been brought into focus: It is no longer \;only the philosophy of biology that deals with functionality\, but \;also the philosophy of art and the philosophy of \;technology. Whereas \;several accounts intended to bridge research on biological functions \;and research on functions of (technical) artifacts have been \;presented\, there is still a lack of accounts (explicitly) designed to \;include \;both functions of art and functions of technical artifacts. \;The scheduled conference is supposed to fill this desideratum by \;asking both experts in the theory of functions of art and experts in \;the theory of functions of \;technical artifacts to extend their \;accounts to artifacts in general and discuss their insights with \;other experts from both domains.
\nThe \;conference will feature eight talks on the topic of artifact \;functionality\, four talks by invited speakers and four talks by PhD \;students or Postdocs. PhD students as well as Postdocs working on \;artifact functions in the area \;of philosophy of art or philosophy of \;technology are invited to submit an extended abstract (1000 words). \;Please send your extended abstract to \;amrei.bahr@uni-muenster.de \;
\nno later than Friday 28th Febuary.\nConfirmed \;Speakers:
Massimiliano \;Carrara (University of Padua)\,
Wybo \;Houkes (Eindhoven University of Technology)\,
Glenn \;Parsons (Ryerson University)\,
Robert \;Stecker (Central Michigan University)
Conference \;Organisation: Amrei Bahr (University of Muenster)
For \;any further questions\, please contact the conference organiser \;via amrei.bahr@uni-muenster.de.