Software Maintenance: Managing Functional Fit Beyond Maker Intentions.
The aim of this paper is to challenge and push back against the view that making and maintaining artefacts should be regarded an action where a maker's intentions are imposed on matter. It addresses software maintenance and how to best conceptualize it to clarify aspects such as software's formal na...
| Published in: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 29; no. 2/3; pp. 176 - 202 |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2025
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