| Technical functions: On the use and design of artefacts W Houkes, PE Vermaas Springer Science & Business Media, 2010 | 182 | 2010 |
| Technical functions: a drawbridge between the intentional and structural natures of technical artefacts PE Vermaas, W Houkes Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (1), 5-18, 2006 | 143 | 2006 |
| Ascribing functions to technical artefacts: A challenge to etiological accounts of functions PE Vermaas, W Houkes The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 54 (2), 261-289, 2003 | 129 | 2003 |
| Actions versus functions: A plea for an alternative metaphysics of artifacts W Houkes, P Vermaas The Monist 87 (1), 52-71, 2004 | 118 | 2004 |
| Design and use as plans: an action-theoretical account W Houkes, PE Vermaas, K Dorst, MJ de Vries Design studies 23 (3), 303-320, 2002 | 105 | 2002 |
| A philosophy of technology: from technical artefacts to sociotechnical systems P Vermaas, P Kroes, I van de Poel, M Franssen, W Houkes Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, and Society 6 (1), 1-134, 2011 | 100* | 2011 |
| The ontology of artefacts: the hard problem W Houkes, A Meijers Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (1), 118-131, 2006 | 78 | 2006 |
| Knowledge of artefact functions W Houkes Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (1), 102-113, 2006 | 78 | 2006 |
| The nature of technological knowledge W Houkes Handbook of Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences, 309-350, 2009 | 53 | 2009 |
| Contemporary engineering and the metaphysics of artefacts: Beyond the artisan model W Houkes, PE Vermaas The Monist 92 (3), 403-419, 2009 | 29 | 2009 |
| Use plans and artefact functions: An intentionalist approach to artefacts and their use PE Vermaas, W Houkes Doing things with things: The design and use of everyday objects, 29-48, 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| Normativity in Quine's naturalism: The technology of truth-seeking? W Houkes Journal for General Philosophy of Science 33 (2), 251-267, 2002 | 16 | 2002 |
| Produced to use: combining two key intuitions on the nature of artefacts W Houkes, PE Vermaas Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 13 (2), 123-136, 2009 | 15 | 2009 |
| Complexity and demographic explanations of cumulative culture A Querbes, K Vaesen, W Houkes PLoS One 9 (7), e102543, 2014 | 14 | 2014 |
| Dual-nature and collectivist frameworks for technical artefacts: A constructive comparison W Houkes, P Kroes, A Meijers, PE Vermaas Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42 (1), 198-205, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| What is morally salient about enhancement technologies? AJK Pols, W Houkes Journal of medical ethics 37 (2), 84-87, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Designing is the construction of use plans W Houkes Philosophy and design, 37-49, 2008 | 11 | 2008 |
| Robust! Handle with care W Houkes, K Vaesen Philosophy of Science 79 (3), 345-364, 2012 | 9 | 2012 |
| On what is made: instruments, products and natural kinds of artefacts W Houkes, PE Vermaas Artefact kinds, 167-190, 2014 | 8 | 2014 |
| Pluralism on artefact categories: A philosophical defence W Houkes, PE Vermaas Review of Philosophy and Psychology 4 (3), 543-557, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
Pieter E. VermaasPhilosophy, Delft University of TechnologyGeverifieerd e-mailadres voor tudelft.nl