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# 科技哲學讀書組 22／2 －共筆 


## Week 1: Verbeek, Don Ihde: The Technological Lifeworld

Relationship between technology and phenomenology
- Against Cartesian dichotomy; integration between human and world (intentionality; no ding an sich; perception vs essence)

### Heidegger’s analysis of technology
> Disclosure of the world: World as Bestand; ‘forgotten’ being
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> From Technology (essence) to technologies (technological artifacts -> forms of world disclosure)

### Don Ihde

#### Role of technology in the structure of human experience (analysis of relations)
* Intertwining of **microperception** (sensory / bodily) and **macroperception** (interpretative (meaning / cultural))

* **Relation of mediation:** perception mediated by a technological artifact
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> Heidegger: tool (readiness-to-hand vs present-at-hand; context, instrumental / technological intentionality, means of experiencing)
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> Merleau-Ponty: embodiment and spatial extension
> Embodiment relations: (I-technology) -> world (e.g. glasses)
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> Hermeneutic relations: I -> (technology-world) (e.g. thermometer reading) [higher contrast transformation of reality]
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> Structure with transformation: amplification / reduction
> Alterity relation: relation to/with technology; I -> technology (-world) (e.g. robots / intelligent ticket machines)


* **Background relation:** artifacts shape our relation to reality in background; I (-technology/world) (e.g. thermostats, fridge, A/C)

#### Relationship between technology and culture

* **Instrumentalism** (technology as neutral tool) vs **substantivism** (as **autonomous** power to **alter** culture) -> NOT independent from people and culture (‘technology-in-order-to’; ‘human-technology’)

* **Multistability:** relation between culture and technology is ‘stable’ in multiple ways (no single / isolated identity: diversity *cosmotechnics)

* **Technological Intentionality:** Framework / influence on human actions: inclination / trajectory (e.g. writing style) -> script

* **Cultural Intentionality:** pluriculture (e.g. multiple simultaneous screens; NOT multiculturalism) owing to communication, information, and imaging technologies

* **Decisional** burden (e.g. pregnancy technologies) and **contingency**

* Specific interpretations and the relevant (stable) scripts

#### Implication for the philosophy of science
* *Paradigm* (Kuhn), *episteme* (Foucault) and *macroperception* (way of seeing of scientists: microperception mediated by technology e.g. ultrasound -> *instrumental realism:* instrument as ‘hermeneutic device’ (Latour: inscriptions))

* Material (non-linguistic) conception of hermeneutics
> Strong (constitute objects: technoconstitution) vs weak programme (interface)
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> Making objects visible (e.g. imaging) vs ‘text-like visualization’ (e.g. representation)
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> Instrumental phenomenological variations
