Research On Epistemology Of Technology Rationality

Technology is the premise for mankind to come into being and to obtain its subjectivity as well as the foundation of the development of the subjectivity. As long as it exists and develops, mankind cannot do without technology, nor can it do without technological rationality, which instructs the human technological practices and activities. Even the solution to effect of negative subjectivity, brought about by inappropriate human technological practices and activities, will eventually rely on the development of technology and technological rationality.Scientific rationality and technological rationality are respectively the core contents of philosophy of science and philosophy of technology. What is different is that the core status of the epistemological research of scientific rationality in philosophy of science has been laid by philosophers, while the epistemological research of technological rationality has just started from scratch. Most philosophical research on technological rationality that we have read so far was done by humanistic technological philosophers from a critical perspective, which undoubtedly results in the fact that there is over too much criticism yet insufficient construction in the research of technological rationality, which again entails the phenomenon that the "inner core" of the research of technological philosophy is not solid enough. Although numerous national and international technological philosophers have advocated the research of technological epistemology in the recent years so that there is an epistemological turn in the research of technological philosophy, yet the research of technological epistemology does not make...