Toward a Terrestrial Turn in Philosophy of Technology

Lemmens, Pieter; Blok, Vincent; Zwier, Jochem

doi:10.5840/techne2017212/363

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“…I call it 'Philosophy of Technology in the Nominative Case (TECNOM)' and have presented it in various papers, for example Cera 2017 and 2018, 131-80. I would like to mention two of the many heterodox examples of such a countermovement against the current mainstream in the philosophy of technology: 1) Babette Babich who, as Ihde's student, criticises postphenomenology's overreaction against the classical philosophy of technology; and 2) the 'Wageningen-Nijmegen Group' (Vincent Blok, Pieter Lemmens and Jochem Zwier) which claims a 'terrestrial turn in philosophy of technology' (see Lemmens, Blok and Zwier 2017). only the question 'What is technology?'…”

Section: Ontophobic Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the Empirical Turn: Elements for an Ontology of Engineering

Cera¹

2020

InfTars

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This paper aims to sketch a critical historicisation of the empirical turn in the philosophy of technology. After presenting Achterhuis’s definition of the empirical turn, I show how its final outcome is an ontophobic turn, i.e. a rejection of Heidegger’s legacy. Such a rejection culminates in the Mr Wolfe Syndrome, the metamorphosis of the philosophy of technology into a positive science which, in turn, depends on an engineerisation/problematisation of reality, i.e. the eclipse of the difference between ‘problem’ and ‘question’. My objection is that if Technology as such becomes nothing, then the paradoxical accomplishment of the empirical turn is the self-suppression of the philosophy of technology. As a countermovement, I propose an ontophilic turn, i.e. the establishment of a philosophy of technology in the nominative case whose first step consists in a Heidegger renaissance.

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Section: Ontophobic Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the Empirical Turn: Elements for an Ontology of Engineering

Cera¹

2020

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“…While the term is controversial (for example it has been argued that it is anthropocentric), there has been a small but growing interest in the theme among philosophers of technology. The editors of a special issue of Techné dedicated to the topic (Lemmens, Blok & Zwier 2017) have argued that philosophers of technology need to take into account the earthly context of technology and technological change and in this way respond critically to the empirical turn:…”

Section: Anthropocene? Earth and Language As Transcendental Conditionsmentioning

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Earth, Technology, Language: A Contribution to Holistic and Transcendental Revisions After the Artifactual Turn

Coeckelbergh

2021

Found Sci

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The empirical turn, understood as a turn to the artifact in the work of Ihde, has been a fruitful one, which has rightly abandoned what Serres and Latour call “the empire of signs” of the postmoderns. However, this has unfortunately implied too little attention for language and its relation to technology. The same can be said about the social dimension of technology use, which is largely neglected in postphenomenology. This talk critically responds to Ihde (mainly) and Stiegler, and sketches a Wittgensteinian inroad to a more holistic and transcendental revision of postphenomenology which does not turn away from the artifact but places it in a wider social context and asks the question regarding the relation between language and technology. Finally, since the earth may be the ultimate condition of possibility, it is asked what this language-sensitive and transcendental approach may imply for rethinking our human position and agency in the Anthropocene. The paper ends with pointing to the role of language as transcendental condition that shapes the very project of thinking the “Anthropocene.”

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“…This name was suggested by the Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist and climate scientist Paul Crutzen [5], [6]. He believed that this is the most apt expression to describe current instable and unpredictable state of the Earth [7]. Even though neither the International Commission on Stratigraphy nor the International Union of Geological Sciences has yet officially approved the term as an indication of a particular geological period, the idea of the Anthropocene became a great source of inspiration for scholars working in various fields, creating new frames for their investigations.…”

Section: Moral Considerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…That is to say, the anthropos becomes a geological layer, just like ice before, in the sense that human agency determines the face of the Earth. Second, that it severely changed the Earth's atmosphere and biosphere, resulting in global warming and the collapse of vital ecosystems [7], [8].…”

Section: Moral Considerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral Considerability and Decision-Making

Hoły-Łuczaj

2019

Studia Humana

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The paper revisits metaphysical and deontological stances on moral considerability and offers a new criterion for it – “affectability”, that is a capacity of an agent to affect a considered entity. Such an approach results in significant changes in the scope of moral considerability and is relevant for discussing the human position in the Anthropocene. This concept, given especially the assumption of the directness of moral considerability, is also substantial for the decision making process on the ethical, as well as the political plane.

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Toward a Terrestrial Turn in Philosophy of Technology

Cited by 23 publications

References 44 publications

Beyond the Empirical Turn: Elements for an Ontology of Engineering

Beyond the Empirical Turn: Elements for an Ontology of Engineering

Earth, Technology, Language: A Contribution to Holistic and Transcendental Revisions After the Artifactual Turn

Moral Considerability and Decision-Making

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