Artifacts: Parts and Principles

Abstract

Abstract In thinking about artifacts and concepts of artifacts, it is difficult to know where one should start let alone where one hopes to end. As always, we want to do justice to our intuitions, but there is the question of who the ‘we/our’ is and whether the intuitions are coherent. For example, there are three metaphysical principles which are widely accepted and which come into conflict. One is that in some sense of basic physical objects, objects are spatially continuous; the second is that objects are temporally continuous; and the third is that when I disassemble a bicycle and reassemble it a week later it is the same bicycle.

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