Postphenomenological Method and Technological Things Themselves

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11275397
AutoresMartin Ritter (0000-0001-7426-7005, University of Vienna, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen44
Número4
Páginas581-593
Fecha de publicación2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHuman Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-8548 • E-ISSN: 1572-851X
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10746-021-09603-5
OpenAlexW3209027916
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas12

We live in a world where it is impossible to exist without, and beyond, technologies. Despite this omnipresence, we tend to overlook their influence on us. The vigorously developing approach of postphenomenology, combining insights from phenomenology and pragmatism, focuses on the so-called technological mediation, i.e., on how technologies as mediators of human-world relations influence the appearing of both the world and the human beings in it. My analysis aims at demonstrating both the methodological weaknesses and open possibilities of postphenomenology. After summarizing its essentials, I will scrutinize, first, its ability to turn to the technological things themselves and, second, the so-called empirical turn as realized by postphenomenology. By assessing its conceptual framework from the phenomenological perspective, I hope to demonstrate that postphenomenology needs philosophical clarification and strengthening. In short, it needs a more phenomenological, and less pragmatic, approach to technology in its influence on human experience

Epistemology · Mediation · Modern philosophy · Omnipresence · Perspective (graphical · Phenomenology (philosophy · Pragmatism · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life