@article{Baker2004-BAKTOO,author = {Lynne Rudder Baker},abstract = {Beginning with Aristotle, philosophers have taken artifacts to be ontologically deficient. This paper proposes a theory of artifacts, according to which artifacts are ontologically on a par with other material objects. I formulate a nonreductive theory that regards artifacts as constituted by - but not identical to - aggregates of particles. After setting out the theory, I rebut a number of arguments that disparage the ontological status of artifacts.},title = {The Ontology of Artifacts},number = {2},year = {2004},volume = {7},journal = {Philosophical Explorations},pages = {99--111}}@