References and Further Reading
Bucciarelli, L. L. (1996). Designing Engineers (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press).
Dym, C. L. (1994). Engineering Design: A Synthesis of Views (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Franssen, M. (2005). “Arrow’s Theorem, Multi-criteria Decision Problems and Multi-attribute Design Problems in Engineering Design,” Research in Engineering Design, 16: 42–56.
Houkes, W. N., Vermaas, P. E. et al. (2002). “Design and Use as Plans: An Action-theoretical Account,” Design Studies, 23 (3): 303–20.
Kroes, P. A. (1998). “Technological Explanations: The Relation between Structure and Function of Technological Objects,” Techné, 3 (3): 18–34.
McLaughlin, P. (2001). What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-reproducing Systems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Pahl, G. and Beitz, W. (1996). Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach (London: Springer Verlag). Sage, A. P. (1992). Systems Engineering (New York: John Wiley).
Simon, H. A. (1996 [1969]). The Sciences of the Artificial (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press).
VDI (1987). VDI Design Handbook 2221: Systematic Approach to the Design of Technical Systems and Products, trans. K. Wallace (Düsseldorf: VDI-Verlag).
Vincenti, W. G. (1990). What Engineers Know and How They Know It (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press).
Von Wright, G. H. (1963). “Practical Inference,” The Philosophical Review, 72 (2): 159–79.
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