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The COVID-19 Pandemic qua Artefact: A Conceptual Analysis

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2021

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Wittingslow, Ryan

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In this article I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic is an unintended artefact with emergent features. Not only is the pandemic an accidental consequence of human agency, it also a) emerges from but is not reducible to its basal features, and b) possesses the features of radical novelty, coherence, wholeness, dynamism, ostensiveness, and downwards causation.

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https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733810009

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Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

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10.5840/techne2021427138

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