What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, And Design - Softcover

Verbeek, Peter-Paul

 
9780271025407: What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, And Design
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ISBN 10: 0271025409 ISBN 13: 9780271025407
Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Our modern society is flooded with all sorts of devices: TV sets, automobiles, microwaves, mobile phones. How are all these things affecting us? How can their role in our lives be understood? What Things Do answers these questions by focusing on how technologies mediate our actions and our perceptions of the world.

Peter-Paul Verbeek develops this innovative approach by first distinguishing it from the classical philosophy of technology formulated by Jaspers and Heidegger, who were concerned that technology would alienate us from ourselves and the world around us. Against this gloomy and overly abstract view, Verbeek draws on and extends the work of more recent philosophers of technology like Don Ihde, Bruno Latour, and Albert Borgmann to present a much more empirically rich and nuanced picture of how material artifacts shape our existence and experiences. In the final part of the book Verbeek shows how his &;postphenomenological&; approach applies to the technological practice of industrial designers.

Its systematic and historical review of the philosophy of technology makes What Things Do suitable for use as an introductory text, while its innovative approach will make it appealing to readers in many fields, including philosophy, sociology, engineering, and industrial design.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter-Paul Verbeek is a teacher and researcher in the philosophy of technology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His book was originally published in Dutch under the title De daadkracht derdingen: Over techniek, filosofie en vormgeving (2000).

Robert P. Crease is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY&;Stony Brook.

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Verlag
Pennsylvania State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0271025409
ISBN 13 
9780271025407
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Anzahl der Seiten
264
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