@inbook{df1a2c61035e4df6933d13b683a9d56c,
title = "Engineering, science and biology",
abstract = "The ICE-theory accounts for two types of functional descriptions of artefacts: function ascriptions relative to use plans and ascriptions of functional roles based on plan-less physicochemical analyses. We put forward the first type as central to technology. In this chapter we continue our discussion of plan-less functional descriptions, and review a number of engineering functional descriptions that seem to challenge the central role of plan-relative function ascriptions. The discussion stays initially within the domain of technology, but provides us with the means to consider also how the ICE-theory fares in dealing with functional descriptions outside this domain.",
keywords = "Biological Domain, Counterpart Theory, Function Theory, Functional Description, Technical Artefact",
author = "Wybo Houkes and Vermaas, {Pieter E.}",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/978-90-481-3900-2_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-90-481-3899-9",
series = "Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET)",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "117--136",
booktitle = "Technical Functions",
address = "Germany",
}