La tecnología y el uso de las causas

  1. Álvarez Toledo, Sebastián
Revista:
Artefactos

ISSN: 1989-3612

Any de publicació: 2008

Número: 1

Pàgines: 101-114

Tipus: Article

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Resum

Many approaches of causality start from the idea that a cause is, above all, a means or an effective strategy to attain a definite practical result. This makes causality an important concept in the philosophy of technology. In this paper I analyse some of these approaches and conclude that the ideas of N. Cartwright about �hunting causes and using them� make her point of view more interesting than the others for the study of relations between basic science and technology