This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification. What it adds to previo

This book presents an attempt to understand the nature of technical artefacts and the way they come into being. Its primary focus is the kind of technical artef

Inthe last decades, Ingvar Johansson has made a formidable contribution to the development of philosophy in general and perhaps especially to the development of

A thorough reconstruction of Aristotle's account of artefacts that is sensitive to modern debates.

In our everyday activities we use material objects in different shapes and forms to solve various practical problems. We may use a knife to tighten a screw, tur