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Bereits mit seiner Diplomarbeit an der Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm «Über den Zeichen- und Symbolcharakter von Gegenständen» hatte Klaus Krippendorff den Grundstein dafür gelegt, was heute weltweit als der Kern von Design-Theorie angesehen wird. Als Ergebnis jahrzehntelanger Forschung legt der Autor in dieser Publikation jetzt die ultimative Summe seiner Erkenntnisse vor. Die Kernaussage lautet: Bedeutung ist wichtiger als Funktion. Design gibt den Dingen Sinn, es macht Dinge verständlich. Es geht dabei um die kontextabhängige Wahrnehmung, Erfahrung und Interpretation von Produkten durch den Benutzer. Krippendorff entwirft den Methodenapparat, um diese Phänomene angemessen wissenschaftlich erfassen und beschreiben zu können. Klaus Krippendorff ist Professor an der Annenberg School for Communication der University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. Zur Vorgeschichte des Buches klicken Sie hier.

Industrial design --- Teleology --- Design in natural phenomena, Study of --- Final cause --- Philosophy --- Causation --- Evolution --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy.

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Everything we do relies on causation. We eat and drink because this causes us to stay alive. Courts tell us who causes crimes, criminology tell us what causes people to commit them. D.H. Mellor shows us that to understand the world and our lives we must understand causation.The Facts of Causation, now available in paperback, is essential reading for students and for anyone interested in reading one of the ground-breaking theories in metaphysics. We cannot understand the world and our place in it without understanding causation. Yet a complete account of the nature and implication

Causation. --- Causation --- Speculative Philosophy --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology

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Why was there a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant? Why do some people get cancer and not others? Why is global warming happening? Why does one person get depressed in the face of life's vicissitudes while another finds resilience? Questions like these-questions of causality-form the basis of modern scientific inquiry, posing profound intellectual and methodological challenges for researchers in the physical, natural, biomedical, and social sciences. In this groundbreaking book, noted psychiatrist and author Peter Rabins offers a conceptual framework for analyzing daunting questions of causality. Navigating a lively intellectual voyage between the shoals of strict reductionism and relativism, Rabins maps a three-facet model of causality and applies it to a variety of questions in science, medicine, economics, and more. Throughout this book, Rabins situates his argument within relevant scientific contexts, such as quantum mechanics, cybernetics, chaos theory, and epigenetics. A renowned communicator of complex concepts and scientific ideas, Rabins helps readers stretch their minds beyond the realm of popular literary tipping points, blinks, and freakonomic explanations of the world.

Causation. --- Science --- Life sciences --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Philosophy.

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Causation is at once familiar and mysterious - we can detect its presence in the world, but we cannot agree on the metaphysics of the causal relation. L.A. Paul and Ned Hall guide the reader through the most important philosophical treatments of causation, and develop a broad and sophisticated understanding of the issues under debate.

Causaliteit. --- Causation. --- Kausalität. --- Metaphysics. --- Philosophy of nature --- Metaphysics --- Causation --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities

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Object-oriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in physics since 1900. Causality, argues, Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in physics, biology, ecology, art, literature and music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.

Object (Philosophy) --- Ontology. --- Causation. --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Being --- Substance (Philosophy) --- ontology --- physics --- causality --- Aesthetics --- Immanuel Kant --- Timothy Morton