Don Ihde is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the place of technologies in our lives. Over the course of a long career, he has built a unique and useful perspective by expanding on phenomenological and American pragmatist philosophy and has developed wide-ranging insights and conceptual tools for describing the details of our experience across the various areas of human activity, including scientific practice, anthropological history, computer interface, design, art history, and the technologies of everyday life.
The Critical Ihde brings together many of Ihde’s most influential writings, as well as a number of under-recognized gems. Across these works are examples of his influential contributions to the phenomenology of human auditory and visual experience, his foundational work on the phenomenology of technology, and his thoughts on the technologies of scientific practice, including laboratory and medical imaging. Further, these chapters reveal the development of ‘postphenomenology, ‘ Ihde’s original philosophical perspective, one that continues to flourish today across the work of a growing interdisciplinary and international collective of scholars.
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Robert Rosenberger
PART 1: FROM PHENOMENOLOGY TO POSTPHENOMENOLOGY
1. Auditory Phenomenology
2. The Multistability of Perception
3. What Pragmatism Adds to Phenomenology
4. What Phenomenology Adds to Pragmatism
5. What Is Postphenomenology?
PART 2: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY
6. Human-Technology Relations
7. Auditory Technologies
8. The Critique of Heidegger
9. Multistability and Cultural Context
10. The Designer Fallacy
PART 3: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SCIENCE
11. The Critique of Husserl
12. Technology Leads Science
13. Epistemology Engines and the Camera Obscura
14. The Phenomenology of Scientific Imaging
Notes
Index
Over de auteur
Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His many books include
Postphenomenology and Technoscience: The Peking University Lectures;
Consequences of Phenomenology; and
Experimental Phenomenology, 2nd edition: Multistabilities (all published by SUNY Press).
Robert Rosenberger is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, President-Elect of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, and the author of
Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless.