Knowledge after the end of nature: a critical approach to Allen’s concept of artifactuality

Title:

Knowledge after the end of nature: a critical approach to Allen’s concept of artifactuality

Creator:

Bektaş, Sezen

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:e2d412ab-8e37-4107-bae5-74df5d829518
uuid:e2d412ab-8e37-4107-bae5-74df5d829518
doi:10.31577/orgf.2019.26204

Subject:

Allen, artifactuality, knowledge, use-value, Vogel, and wildness

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

Barry Allen’s criticism of the traditional definition of knowledge seems to share a radical tone with Stephan Vogel’s con-cerns about the customary representation of the causes that lie be-hind our current environmental problems. Both philosophers voice their complaints about the Cartesian picture of the world and dismiss the core idea behind the notorious duality embedded in that picture. What they propose instead is a monistic perspective positing an ar-tifactual networking. In this paper, I will try to draw attention to certain weak aspects of Allen’s refreshing description of knowledge as “superlative artifactual performance” and offer a way to improve that characterization via Vogel’s notion “wildness”. More specifically, I will propose a solution to the problems pertaining to the distinction between good and bad artifacts with respect to the epistemic criteria proposed by Allen, and claim that the temporal gap standing in be-tween the expectations of a designer and the qualities of her design may contribute to our understanding of the nature of an artifact. I maintain that each creative attempt to know a given artifact is to be appreciated by recognizing its different uses. In doing so, I will also try to show why and how certain bad artifacts get their undesir-able status because of leading up to techno-cultural stagnation.

Language:

Slovak

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

249-264

Source:

Organon F: filozofický časopis | 2019 Volume:26 | Number:2

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