“When asked whether he was contemplating retirement on account of illness and the ravages of advancing age, Pope John Paul II confirmed that he was, and bemoaned the fact that his body was no longer a docile instrument, but a … Continue reading
Contemporary philosopher Don Ihde is a key thinker in the analysis of human-technology relations. He is indebted to Heidegger for much of his way of thinking, but he analyzes a wider range of technological relations. Indeed, his chief critique of … Continue reading
For my students writing their own phenomenologies of technology this week, Heidegger offers one way to proceed from a question, through a description, to a concept. In later posts we will show how Borgmann and Ihde proceed differently, though still … Continue reading
To aid student’s working through Val Dusek’s chapter on “Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Technology,” p. 71-72, I have copied a key paragraph in the chapter and added hyperlinks to all the technical terms used in it. Think of this as a … Continue reading
