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275 BOOK REVIEWS Ihde, Don. Technique and Praxis. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky (Eds.), Vol. XXIV. Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1979, xxviii + 151 pp., $23.70. This collection of essays outlines a philosophy of techniques within a prevailingly phenomenological mode of thought and proceeds therein to describe and extract some of the essentials of the human experience of machines. The author's thesis is that this experience is non-neutral in a sense stronger than the view that machines are merely convenient (otherwise value-neutral) means to ends, and yet weaker than Heideg- ger's and Jonas' view that the modem use of machines has altered and is endangering the human essence. I want to display certain of the salient points of this philosophy of techniques and then proceed to a criticism to . which this philosophy, as well as almost every other philosophy of technology which I have seen, is subject. Then the question whether the human essence is changed by technology will be briefly reconsidered. Professor Ihde enters his reflection on techniques under the rubric 'praxis,' for he finds a theory of human action to be primary, for example prior
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1981
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