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The COVID-19 Pandemic qua Artefact: A Conceptual Analysis

dc.contributor.authorWittingslow, Ryanen
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-06T19:42:10Z
dc.date.available2026-06-06T19:42:10Z
dc.date.issued2021en
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en
dc.description.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.format.extent13en
dc.identifier.issn1091-8264en
dc.identifier.otherRIS:urn:F1D739817135ABB30F27D213F6787DBEen
dc.identifier.otherORCID:/0000-0002-6278-6489/work/216599826en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733810009
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights©2021 The authorsen
dc.sourceTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technologyen
dc.titleThe COVID-19 Pandemic qua Artefact: A Conceptual Analysisen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dspace.entity.typePublicationen
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage353en
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage341en
local.contributor.affiliationWittingslow, Ryan; ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences, The Australian National Universityen
local.identifier.citationvolume25en
local.identifier.doi10.5840/techne2021427138en
local.identifier.puredf1cd44d-8d5b-49df-af94-cc51ed2c5263en
local.type.statusPublisheden

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