Dear Jeff,
Thanks for your note. You seem to have misread me. I wrote, "There is a respectable and growing literature on the philosophy of design, both in its own right and as a branch within the philosophy of technology."
This sentence means that philosophy of design is a field in its own right -- and this is how I treat it. For some, however, it is a branch within the philosophy of technology. Valuable literature exists in both fields, and that's why I state it this way.
What I did NOT do was to claim that philosophy of design is a branch within philosophy of technology. You are right to argue that such a claim would be debatable, but I did not make it.
Yours,
Ken
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:44:51 -0800, jeffrey chan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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However in your post you raised an important but debatable point: you claimed that the philosophy of design is a branch within the philosophy of technology.
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