Philosophical Potencies of Postphenomenology
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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F21%3A00549316" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/21:00549316 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-021-00469-0" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-021-00469-0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13347-021-00469-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s13347-021-00469-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Philosophical Potencies of Postphenomenology
Original language description
As a distinctive voice in the current philosophy of technology, postphenomenology elucidates various ways of how technologies “shape” both the world (or objectivity) and humans (or subjectivity) in it. Distancing itself from more speculative approaches, postphenomenology advocates the so-called empirical turn in philosophy of technology: It focuses on diverse effects of particular technologies instead of speculating on the essence of technology and its general impact. Critics of postphenomenology argue that by turning to particularities and emphasizing that technologies are always open to different uses and interpretations, postphenomenology becomes unable to realize how profoundly technology determines our being in the world. Seeking to evaluate the postphenomenological (in)ability to radically reflect on the human being conditioned by technology, I discuss the two most pertinent criticisms of postphenomenology: an “existential” one by Robert C. Scharff and an “ontological” one by Jochem Zwier, Vincent Blok, and Pieter Lemmens. Assessing the ontological alternative, I point to incapacity of Heidegger’s concept of Enframing to do justice to material technologies. Simultaneously, I acknowledge the necessity of speculating on (the concept of) technology as transcending concrete technologies. Such speculating would be instrumental in reviving Ihde’s idea of non-neutrality of technology in its full philosophical potency.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF20_079%2F0017680" target="_blank" >EF20_079/0017680: Technology as a Medium of Human Existence: A Benjaminian Techno Anthropology</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophy & Technology
ISSN
2210-5433
e-ISSN
2210-5441
Volume of the periodical
34
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1501-1516
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85113672070