Organon F
Volume 32, November 2025, Issue 4, Pages 457–485
ISSN 2585-7150 (online)
Research Article
Artifacts’ Intention-Essentialism and The Production of Negative and Queer Objects
Adrián Solís
Artifacts are mind-dependent objects; they exist by virtue of the intentional activity of their makers, at least according to what philosophers usually defend. Some philosophers consider artifacts to be causally and essentially dependent on the intentions of their original makers—a position that we will call Artifacts’ Intention-Essentialism. Although this position is very attractive, it suffers from various problems. This paper focuses on a discussion of two of those problems: the possibility of creating negative, and queer objects. The first criticism was originally raised by Evnine (2016) against Thomasson’s view, but our aim is to defend this criticism for all Artifacts’ Intention-Essentialism views, including Evnine’s. The second problem is a new issue regarding how easy it would be to create queer kinds of artifacts if we accept Artifacts’ Intention-Essentialism.
Artifacts, intention-dependent objects; negative actions; negative objects; negative properties; queer objects.
Author
Adrián Solís
Affiliation
Universitat de Barcelona
Address
LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy, Departament de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona, Carrer Montalegre, 6-8, 08001, Spain
Received
8 December 2024
Revised
15 June 2025
Accepted
27 June 2025
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Solís, A. (2025). Artifacts’ Intention-Essentialism and The Production of Negative and Queer Objects. Organon F, 32(4), 457–485. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32404
Chicago
Solís, Adrián. 2025. "Artifacts’ Intention-Essentialism and The Production of Negative and Queer Objects." Organon F 32 (4): 457–485. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32404
Harvard
Solís, A. (2025). Artifacts’ Intention-Essentialism and The Production of Negative and Queer Objects. Organon F, 32(4), pp. 457–485. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32404
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