Author: Don Ihde
Publisher: Automatic Press / VIP
Keywords: technics, ironic
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 8792130186
ISBN-13: 9788792130181

Even before we humans became modern as homo sapiens we were busy inventing technologies. But our technologies also invent us as humans. And as we reflect upon this process, too often our interpretations have taken utopian or dystopian directions: our technologies will make life infinitely better and lead us into utopian realms, or our technologies will condemn us to alienation or even destroy our humanity itself. This set of essays, however, looks at the ironic dimensions of human-technology relations, at unpredicted, unexpected, surprizing outcomes. Are we today in a ‘knowledge society

Author: Don Ihde
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: phenomenology, consequences
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 1986-01
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0887061419
ISBN-13: 9780887061417

Author: Don Ihde
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: introduction, phenomenology, experimental
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1986-09
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0887061990
ISBN-13: 9780887061998

Author: Don Ihde
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Keywords: philosophy, issues, paragon, introduction, technology
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 1993-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1557782733
ISBN-13: 9781557782731

Author: Don Ihde
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: spep, science, visualism, hermeneutics, expanding
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1999-03-31
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0810116065
ISBN-13: 9780810116061

Hermeneutics as a type of interpretation theory has traditionally been thought to apply primarily to texts, linguistic phenomena and processes of reading. Don Ihde’s "Expanding Hermeneutics" examines the history and contemporary development of interpretation theory, with a special emphasis on how science in practice involves and implicates interpretive processes. He argues that the sciences have developed a sophisticated visual hermeneutics that produces evidence by means of imaging, visual displays and visualizations which rely particularly upon the holistic abilities of perception - pr

Author: Don Ihde
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: philosophy, science, technology, interface, realism, instrumental
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1991-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 025320626X
ISBN-13: 9780253206268

"Ihde is perhaps uniquely situated to provide authoritative accounts of such diverse philosophical traditions as those involved in current explorations of the technology of scientific instruments.... Ihde’s book breaks new ground and... makes an important debate accessible." -- Robert AckermannInstrumental Realism has three principal aims: to advocate a "praxis-perception" approach to the philosophy of science; to explore ways in which such an approach offers a mutually illuminating overlap with a philosophy of technology; and to examine comparatively and critically the work of some who

Author: Don Ihde
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: technology, series, philosophy, indiana, earth, lifeworld, garden
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1990-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0253205603
ISBN-13: 9780253205605

"... Dr. Ihde brings an enlightening and deeply humanistic perspective to major technological developments, both past and present." -- Science Books & Films"Don Ihde is a pleasure to read.... The material is full of nice suggestions and details, empirical materials, fun variations which engage the reader in the work... the overall points almost sneak up on you, they are so gently and gradually offered." -- John Compton"A sophisticated celebration of cultural diversity and of its enabling technologies.... perhaps the best single volume relating the philosophical tradition to the broad issue