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The paper investigates the conceptual possibility of a threefold distinction in design research that parallels the threefold distinction of laws, theories and research programs in nomic research, viz. design laws, design theories, and design research programs. In view of a rather different picture of design or, more broadly, applied theories of Ilkka Niiniluoto, the paper leaves the challenge to start comparative case studies to evaluate the two conceptions.

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    Sven Ove Hansson, “What is Technological Science?”, in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 38, 2007, pp. 523–527.

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    Theo Kuipers, “Laws, Theories, and Research Programmes”, in: Theo Kuipers (Ed.), Philosophy of Science: Focal Issues, Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, vol 1. Series editors Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods. Amsterdam: Elsevier 2007, pp. 1-95.

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    Von Wright, Norm and Action, Ibid.

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    Ilkka Niiniluoto, “The Aim and Structure of Applied Research”, in: Erkenntnis 38, 1, 1993, pp 1-21. Niiniluoto, “Approximation in Applied Science”, in: Martti Kuokkanen (Ed.), Idealization VII: Structuralism, Idealization and Approximation, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 42. Amsterdam: Rodopi 1994, pp. 127-139.

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    Theo Kuipers, Rein Vos and Hauke Sie, “Design Research Programs and the Logic of Their Development”, in: Erkenntnis 37, 1, 1992, pp. 37-63. Theo Kuipers, Structures in Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer 2001. Chapter 10.

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    Niiniluoto, “Approximation in Applied Science”, loc. cit., Section 1.

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    Von Wright, Norm and Action, Ibid.

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    Niiniluoto, “The Aim and Structure of Applied Research”, loc. cit. Niiniluoto, “Approximation in Applied Science”, loc.cit.

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    Kuipers, Structures in Science, loc. cit. Chapter 4.

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    Kuipers et al., “Design Research Programs and the Logic of Their Development”, Ibid. Kuipers, Structures in Science, loc. cit., Chapter 10.

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    Rein Vos, Drugs Looking for Diseases. Dordrecht: Kluwer 1991.

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    Kuipers, Structures in Science, loc. cit., Chapter 9.

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    Niiniluoto, “Approximation in Applied Science”, loc.cit.

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    Kuipers, Structures in Science, loc. cit., Chapters 1 and 10.

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    Henk Zandvoort, Models of Scientific Development and the Case of NMR, Synthese Library 184. Dordrecht: Reidel 1986.

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    Kuipers, Structures in Science, loc. cit., Chapter 9.

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    I like to thank Ilkka Niiniluoto for his remarks on the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen, Platanenlaan 15, 2061 TP, Bloemendaal, Netherlands

    Theo A. F. Kuipers

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  1. Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 1520, Aarhus, 8000, Denmark

    Hanne Andersen

  2. Inst. History & Foundations of Science, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht, 3584 CD, Netherlands

    Dennis Dieks

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    Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

  4. , Philosophy School of Social Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom

    Thomas Uebel

  5. Centre Artificial Intelligence (CENTRA), Department of Computer Science, New University of Lisbon, Monte de Caparica, Lisbon, 2829-516, Portugal

    Gregory Wheeler

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Kuipers, T.A.F. (2013). Philosophy of Design Research. In: Andersen, H., Dieks, D., Gonzalez, W., Uebel, T., Wheeler, G. (eds) New Challenges to Philosophy of Science. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5845-2_37

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