Beth Preston (preston-b)

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Preston, Beth. 1991. “AI, Anthropocentrism, and the Evolution of ‘Intelligence’ .” Minds and Machines 1: 259–277.
Preston, Beth. 1993. “Heidegger and Artificial Intelligence.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53: 43–69.
Preston, Beth. 1994. “Behaviorism and Mentalism: Is There a Third Alternative?” Synthese 100: 167–196.
Preston, Beth. 1995. “The Ontological Argument against the Mind-Machine Hypothesis.” Philosophical Studies 80: 131–157.
Preston, Beth. 1998. “Why is a Wing Like a Spoon? A Pluralist Theory of Function.” The Journal of Philosophy 95(5): 215–254.
Preston, Beth. 2006. “Social Context and Artefact Function.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 37(1): 37–41.
Preston, Beth. 2009. “Philosophical Theories of Artifact Function.” in Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences, edited by Anthonie Meijers, pp. 213–234. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 9. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Preston, Beth. 2013. A Philosophy of Material Culture. Action, Function, and Mind. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203069844.
Preston, Beth. 2014. “Ethnotechnology: A Manifesto.” in Artefact Kinds. Ontology and the Human-Made World, edited by Maarten Franssen, Peter Kroes, Thomas A. C. Reydon, and Pieter E. Vermaas, pp. 145–167. Synthese Library n. 365. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00801-1_9.
Preston, Beth. 2018. “Artifact.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/artifact/.
Preston, Beth. 2021. “Artifacts.” in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering, edited by Diane P. Michelfelder and Neelke Doorn, pp. 209–221. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Preston, Beth. 2022. “Artifact.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/artifact/.