References and Further Reading

Akrich, M. (1992). “The De-scription of Technical Objects,” in W. E. Bijker and J. Law (eds), Shaping Technology/Building Society (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), pp. 205–24.

Anders, G. (1987). Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen (Munich: Beck).

Baker, L. R. (2004). “The Ontology of Artifacts,” Philosophical Explorations, 7: 99–111.

Basalla, G. (1988). The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Bijker, W. E. (1995). Of Bicycles, Bakelites and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press).

Borgmann, A. (1984). Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry (Chicago, Ill./London: University of Chicago Press).

Bostrom, N. (2005a). “A History of Transhumanist Thought,” Journal of Evolution and Technology, 14 (1): 1–25.

Bostrom, N. (2005b). “In Defence of Posthuman Dignity,” Bioethics, 19 (3): 202–14.

Cummins, R. (1975). “Functional Analysis,” Journal of Philosophy, 72: 741–65.

Dipert, R. R. (1993). Artifacts, Art Works, and Agency (Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press).

Elder, C. L. (2004). Real Natures and Familiar Objects (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press).

Gehlen, A. (1988 [1957]). Man: His Nature and Place in the World (New York: Columbia University Press).

Haraway, D. (1991). “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge), pp. 149–81. ...

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