Albert Borgmann’s Phenomenological Approach to Technology: The Device Paradigm and His Call for Focal Concerns
Journal Title: Dini Araştırmalar -Altı Aylık Bilimsel Dergi- - Year 2017, Vol 20, Issue 52
Abstract
Because technology plays an extraordinary role in the contemporary world and affects many spheres of human life, many philosophers have addressed philosophical questions related to the phenomenon of technology and consequently, philosophy of technology has entered philosophy as a new eld of philosophical inquiry in the 20th century. The phenomenological approach, one of the prominent trends within continental philosophy in the 20th century, has also developed a perspective on technology and in this context the issues of how and to what extent technology transforms our experience and affects our relation to the world have been discussed. The subjects such as the effects of the technological change on meaning, value and the good life have been elaborated as well. In this study I will explain the device paradigm that shows how Albert Borgmann, one of the contemporary philosophers of technology from phenomenology tradition, analyzes the effects of technology and invites us to see the pervasiveness and patterns of modern technology. Borgmann makes a distinction between devices and things. For him, unlike things that engage us, devices that disengage us and many aspects of human life ignored by the rule of the device paradigm. I will also aim at explain and evaluate his call for focal things and practices against the in uence of the device paradigm. According to Borgmann, because technology is silent as to the ends and goods that we desire, in order to reform technology, we need to revive focal things and practices which contain within them “a vision of the good life” unlike the device paradigm.
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Tuba Nur Umut
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